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Argentina: the present and the future

Argentina's malbecs, with their softly alluring, fruit-forward charm, are deservedly in vogue. I've been buying South American wine for over two decades and have been excited to see the increasing variety and nuance.

The emerging new areas in Medoza's Uco Valley, for example, are producing some of the country's most exciting malbecs.

Toby Morrhall, Society Buyer

Toby Morrhall
Society Buyer

  • date 2018
  • location Argentina
  • people Toby Morrhall
Argentina: the present and the future

Argentina: the present and the future

Wine is being made from north to south in Argentina, but the climates are surprisingly similar as latitude is often compensated by altitude. And when it comes to the pioneering vineyards of Patagonia in the south, climate isn't the only issue…

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Exciting emerging regions in the Uco Valley

Exciting emerging regions in the Uco Valley

The cooler Uco Valley has become the centre of interest in Argentina's wine heartland, Mendoza. The emerging subregions of Gualtallary, Paraje Altamira and La Consulta, among others, are producing some very exciting wines.

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Catena's Adrianna vineyard in the exciting subregion of Gualtallary Alejandro Sejanovich and Jeff Mausbach make small quantities of the exceptional Zaha & Teho wines from old vines planted in Paraje Altamira Mendel's Roberto de la Mota, who makes an extraordinary old-vine semillon in the Paraje Altamira subregion Argentina's most southerly vineyard: Weinert's vines in Chubut, Patagonia Reception is good: making a call in Paraje Altamira Harvesting in the high-altitude Salta region in the north Zuccardi's Finca Los Membrillos in La Consulta with the Andes close by in the background A wine map of Argentina. Used with the kind permission of Sebastián Zuccardi Susana Balbo's La Delfina is a lovely example of the floral, violent-scented style of Paraje Altamira malbec

Featured Wines

Susana Balbo Chacayes Single-Vineyard Mendoza Malbec 2017

Mendel Mendoza Semillon 2016

Zaha Toko Vineyard Paraje Altamira Malbec 2015

Susana Balbo La Delfina Paraje Altamira Malbec 2013

Teho Tomal Vineyard La Consulta Malbec 2014

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