Food, drink and travel writer + sommelier | Argentina + Latin America
MENDOZA – When you excavate 1,000 lorries worth of mountainous rocks in order to plant vineyards, the only logical outcome for all that surplus material – if your name is Sebastián Zuccardi – is to build a winery with it. And from Wednesday, Bodega Zuccardi Valle de Uco throws open its doors to its second […]
It’s the perfect time to escape Buenos Aires and go mountain biking, grape picking, or catch some late summer rays at the beach.
In the final part of this series, Vinicast’s Gabriel Dvoskin talks about Pinotom, his Argentine Pinot Noir.
From pharmaceuticals to chef. Mother-of-four Nadia Harón runs two restaurants in Mendoza.
For The Guardian: Mendoza’s spectacular Andean scenery is heady enough, and that’s before you even start on the wine. Here’s our pick of where to go for tastings, the best restaurants and where to sleep it all off.
Three, two, one, pop! Four sparklers to crack open this evening.
It’s time for a new friendship to flourish and say yay to Chardonnay.
Wine Review: Rutini Gewürztraminer 2014, Bodega La Rural, Tupungato, Valle de Uco
“Oh, don’t get that Gewürztraminer,” said B. “I hate sweet wines.”
What? Stop. Rewind.
You can legitimately sip it for breakfast by turning it into a Buck’s Fizz with fresh orange juice… a brief history of 40 sparkling wine harvests in Argentina at Chandon.
In the shadow of the high Andes, west of Buenos Aires is Mendoza. The region is the location for the Uco Valley’s first luxury resort – and the latest installment in The Vines of Mendoza’s story. It started out a decade ago as the pipedream of a former American political campaigner and his Argentine oenologist […]