Carmenere

Although this is a bottle of Chilean wine, neither of the grapes it contains originated there,; they both come from Bordeaux. Whilst most people are camiliar with Petit Verdot as a minor component in many clarets, Carmenere was part of the original six grapes of red Bordeaux wines; even now it forms 1% of the plantings in the fifth growth Chateau Clerc-Milon. Nowadays Carmenere is more associated with Chile, where it produces a deep red medium bodied wine with red berry fruit and softer tannins than Cabernet Sauvignon, with which it shares Cabernet Franc as a parent (the other is Gros Cabernet for Carmenere, and Sauvignon Blanc for Cabernet Sauvignon).