Carmenere
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2026
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted pork loin, grilled lamb chops, or traditional beef empanadas.
✨ Technical Specifications
The story of Chilean Carmenere is one of the wine world's most captivating tales of mistaken identity. Originally a prominent blending grape in Bordeaux, it was wiped out in Europe by the phylloxera epidemic in the late 19th century and presumed extinct. Decades later, in 1994, French ampelographer Jean-Michel Boursiquot discovered that vines in Chile long thought to be a late-ripening clone of Merlot were actually the lost Carmenere. Casa Silva has played a pioneering role in the modern renaissance of this grape, conducting extensive research to understand its micro-terroirs. This Central Valley bottling captures the classic, approachable essence of the variety, shaped by the region's warm days and cooling breezes from the Andes, resulting in a wine with supple tannins and rich, dark fruit flavors.
🍾 About the Producer
With winemaking roots dating back to 1892 in the Colchagua Valley, Viña Casa Silva is one of Chile's most historic and distinguished family-owned wine estates, formally bottled under the family label by Mario Silva and his sons in 1997. Based at their ancestral estate in Angostura near San Fernando, the winery has emerged as a leader in Chilean viticultural innovation, spearheading landmark terroir research and pioneering extreme vineyards ranging from the cool coastal hills of Paredones to the glacial soils of Lago Ranco in Chilean Patagonia. Committed to sustainability, precision farming, and authentic varietal character, the estate produces an exceptional spectrum of expressive red, white, rosé, and sparkling wines. Casa Silva is universally acclaimed for defining modern Carmenère through benchmark bottlings like Microterroir, its flagship blend Altura, and crystalline cool-climate Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Carmenere
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
13.5-14%