El Incidente Carmenere 2010 in Wine Enthusiast magazine
February 2014Our Carmenere icon El Incidente, was highlighted between the best Chilean Carmeneres with 92 points in Wine Enthusiast Magazine!!
Article: “The Accidental Wine”. Wine Enthustast, March issue 2014.
Two decades ago, Jean-Michel Boursiquot, a French ampelographer hired to help wineries in Chile’s Maule Valley determine what grape varieties were in their oldest vineyards, dropped a bombshell on his clients. Thousands of acres that the Chileans had long thought were Merlot were actually an obscure variety called Carmenère.
“Carmen-what?” the Chileans asked. riginally imported from Bordeaux, Carmenère can be green and herbaceous if the grapes aren’t picked fully ripe—hence the uneven reputation of Chilean “Merlot” in the early 1990s.