Food, drink and travel writer + sommelier | Argentina + Latin America
(The Drinks Business) Dubbed Tegui SuperUco, the pop-up is spearheaded by Germán Martitegui, whose flagship restaurant Tegui is currently at number 10 on Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurants list. The concept was dreamt up by Martitegui two years ago, who touted the idea to Michelini of Passionate Wines. Keen to make the dream a reality, Michelini […]
Me: What’s it like when you all get involved in making a wine?
Matías Michelini: Es un quilombo / We cause a commotion.
Super Uco winery in Uco Valley, Mendoza, opens this weekend.
A year in Uco Valley: how Francis Mallmann’s Siete Fuegos has made its mark.
(Condé Nast Traveler) Unlike coffee plantations, wine cultivation isn’t restricted by elevation or latitude, and in South America, you’re sure to stumble across vintages being made in well-known destinations such as Mendoza’s Uco Valley or Chile’s Maipó Valley. But there are a host of unexpected, up-and-coming regions across the continent, where you can sample vintages often paired with epic […]
(Decanter) Argentinian sommelier Florencia Rey has led the beverages team at award-winning Maido restaurant in Lima, Peru, since 2014. The Nikkei cuisine by chef-owner Mitsuharu Tsumura allows her to play around with sake as well as South American and European wines; she also runs an alcohol-free program. In November 2023, Florencia was named Beronia Latin […]
(Decanter) There are said to be about 880 bodegas in Mendoza, ensuring that Argentina’s elevated western province has long been a destination of choice for wine lovers. Vineyards here range from about 430m to 2,000m altitude, and while Malbec rules the roost, an ever-growing cast of varieties such as Semillon, Pinot Noir and the Criolla grapes (principally Torrontés, Criolla Chica, Criolla Grande […]
(Monocle) Saving up your leave and heading on a proper adventure can change the way you think. Go for a whole month; don’t follow the pack. Open skies and awe-inspiring landscapes await in Patagonia. This huge plateau is divided by the Andes and cupped by two oceans, and spans both Argentina and neighbouring Chile. In […]
(Decanter) Alejandro Vigil is director of production, vineyards and wineries at Catena Zapata, and was named president of Wines of Argentina in April. Besides leading the Catena family’s wine projects, he also runs Chachingo craft brewery and a slew of pubs and restaurants in Mendoza. How did you get here? My journey started at INTA […]
(Condé Nast Traveler) The late-summer grape harvest in Mendoza, Argentina, beautifully brings people together. Yet I find that when this mountainous wine country is blanketed in snow and free from the groups that come through for tastings and asado in summer, it has a special kind of magic. In June (the peak of winter in the […]
(The Tonic) As head of oenology at one of Argentina’s most iconic wineries, Alejandro Vigil is often found striding across the elevated limestone soils of Bodega Catena Zapata’s Vista Flores estate, his curly brown hair blown about by the Uco Valley’s Andean-powered breeze, contemplating leaf stripping, harvest or winter pruning. It’s more likely you’ll come […]