South America on Sommo — AI Wine Scanner, WSET Prep & Wine Journal Apphttps://sommo.app/tags/south-america/Recent content in South America on Sommo — AI Wine Scanner, WSET Prep & Wine Journal AppHugoen-USSommoWed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000Carmenère Wine Guide: Chile's Lost Grape Rediscoveredhttps://sommo.app/blog/carmenere-wine-guide/Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sommo.app/blog/carmenere-wine-guide/<p>The story of Carmenère is one of wine&rsquo;s great mysteries. For over 150 years, Chilean winemakers were growing one of Bordeaux&rsquo;s original six noble grapes and calling it something else entirely. It took a French ampelographer visiting Chile in 1994 to spot that what everyone had been labelling Merlot was actually Carmenère, a variety thought to have been wiped out by phylloxera in 19th-century Europe. The discovery changed Chilean wine overnight.</p>