Audio Blog 1: Carmenère, The Best Grape Story Ever Told

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🗓️ 20 July 2016

⏱️ 9 minutes

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This is the first of our new weekly audio blog series: short, informative readings of blog posts from winefornormalpeople.com/blog.

To kick it off, Carmenère, a grape with the most dramatic backstory in the wine world!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Wine for Normal People audio blog. It's a quick reading of post from the Wine for Normal People
0:15.0	blog to satisfy your wine dorkery needs between our longer podcasts. I'm Elizabeth Schneider,
0:21.5	certified Somalier, certified specialist of wine, and chief normal
0:25.2	wine person of wine for normal people.
0:29.0	You can find the written versions and links to these audio blogs as well as post comments on line for normal
0:34.6	people dot com forward slash blog with that let's get started
0:40.3	Carmen year the greatest grape story ever told.
0:45.0	Part of the reason I love wine is that every grape has a story.
0:50.0	Whether it's that the grape has been native to an area like Temporino in Spain or found to be the love child of some other popular grapes,
0:59.0	Cabernet Sauvignon is the illegitimate kid of Cabernet Fronk and Savignon Blanc.
1:04.0	Every Berry has a legacy.
1:07.0	I don't like to play favorites and wine, but I do have a favorite grape story.
1:11.0	And that is the story of Carmenier. I know it's not a barn burner
1:16.1	in the world of wine, one of those grapes that everyone's had, but if you start trolling
1:20.1	the Chilean is, you'll see a bunch of karmonier on the shelves. It's become a signature of sorts for that
1:26.3	country. So the question is, how did this ancient grape native to the southwest France Gironde area and assumed to be the offspring of Cabernet
1:37.0	Franc wind up in Chile. That's why I love the story. It's meandering and cool.
1:42.3	Let's start love the story. It's meandering and cool.
1:43.0	Let's start with the origins.
1:45.0	Wine Turks who study this stuff believe that Carmen Yer is a naturally occurring cross between Cabernet Fronk and a grape called Cabernet Grow, which is no longer with us.
1:55.5	Rest in peace.
1:56.6	Cabernet Grow was a cross of the grape of Chocoli from the Basque country and Fair, also Basque but used in the wines of southwest France,
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