International Carmenère Day
International Carmenère Day is held on November 24. Created in 2014, this festival originally celebrated the 20th anniversary of a grape that was ‘lost,’ then rediscovered. This event in the third decade of the month November is annual.
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Most likely known as ‘Biturica’ by Romans, Carménère was a staple Bordeaux wine grape until the phylloxera epidemic wiped out most French vines beginning in the 1860's.
International Carménère Day, November 24, is a celebration of the Chilean wine varietal thought to be extinct until it was rediscovered in 1994.
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