Zuccardi: thoughtful terroir-driven wines from Mendoza, Argentina
Website: https://zuccardiwines.com/en/ Sebastian Zuccardi was in town, showing off his exciting wines. It was great to catch up and taste
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Achaval Ferrer, one of the leading wineries from Argentina’s Mendoza region
Website: https://www.achaval-ferrer.com/ Achaval Ferrer is one of the most celebrated Argentine wineries. I remember being hugely impressed by what they
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Argentina goes super-premium: the wines of Bemberg Estate with Daniel Pi
Website: https://www.bembergestatewines.com/eng/home Over recent decades Argentine wine has become well established, and extremely popular. At the more commercial level, Malbec
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Meeting Paul Hobbs and trying his wines: one of the world’s most accomplished consultant winemakers
One of the best known Californian consultant winemakers is Paul Hobbs. He began making wine at Mondavi in the late
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Highlights : Bodega y Viñedos Nicolas Catena La Marchigiana Criolla Vino Natural Ancestral 2019, Mendoza, Argentina
La Marchigiana is Catina’s respectful look to the past, fermenting indigenous Criolla in clay pots. Though the amphora here was
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Domaine Bousquet: how a winemaker swapped his French winery for an Argentine one, and then his Kuwait-born Iraqi son-in law grew it to be the country’s leading organic winery
Website: https://domainebousquet.com/en/ This week I met with Labid al Ameri (pictured above), co-owner of Domaine Bousquet, in London to hear
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Exploring Argentina’s diversity and quality, with Paz Levinson
There isn’t enough Argentine wine on our lists says Argentinian Sommelier Paz Levinson. She came to London to show a
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Bodega Contra Corriente: Welsh-speaking Chubut in Patagonia is producing cool climate wines to sing about
Lisse Garnett tells the story of a new wine region with an intriguing history, in Argentina’s Patagonia. Wine notes by
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País, Mission, Criolla Chica: the Beaujolais of the Americas?
Much like the Gamay of Beaujolais, twenty years ago País was seen as fit for only commonplace, lowly table wine.
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Six from South America, from The Wine Society
These are six wines that form the Fine Wines of South America case at the Wine Society. At £112, which
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