The wine region of Buenos Aires is located in the region of Patagonia of Argentina. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Piccolo Banfi or the Domaine Puerta del Abra produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Buenos Aires are Malbec, Petit Verdot and Pinot noir, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. In the mouth of Buenos Aires is a powerful.
We currently count 6 estates and châteaux in the of Buenos Aires, producing 22 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Buenos Aires go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, spicy food or mature and hard cheese.
I’d like to say we took advantage of the lockdown and its related commotion to do a stock-take, explore new avenues, turn over intriguing stones, widen and deepen our drinking, taking careful notes as we went. Sadly, no. I won’t say we got stuck in a rut, but we did tend to stick with comfort wines – and “comfort”, in our case, means familiar. Regular readers of this quarterly column can probably guess the labels on the resulting empties. We have a wider range of comfort foods, I’m afraid, than ...
The grapes have been picked and Argentina is able to file another successful harvest for 2022, to match the previous four years. However producers are reporting that 2022 was the most singular of recent vintages, with each region experiencing its own challenges. Mendoza ‘The 2021-2022 season reminds me of a good Hollywood movie,’ said Martín Kaiser, viticulturist at Doña Paula in Mendoza. ‘It certainly kept us entertained. Our hearts were in our mouths all the way through, but it had a great end ...
Amanda Barnes has been awarded the John Avery Award for her The South America Wine Guide book, which was described as ‘heralding a new era’ in wine travel books. The book, which is the result of a decade of research conducted by Barnes while travelling the continent, details the wine regions, wines and producers of Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia and Peru. It highlights over 70 wine regions and maps out 40 in detail — many of which have never before been mapped or documented in the En ...
