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WINEMAKER Salóme Buys-Vermeulen of Lozärn Wines

The carménère grape is well known in Chile, where for many years it was misidentified as merlot, until studies at the end of the last century found that it was indeed carménère, believed to have been extinct after the phylloxera outbreak decimated

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