Journalist + sommelier / Argentina + Latin America
(Fine Dining Lovers) It’s a wine lover’s ultimate dream: running a winery, making vintages that score 100 highly-coveted Parker points, exploring local terroir to bottle its most honest expression, then soaking up all those liquid riches over a fine dinner while the sun slowly drops behind snowy Andean peaks. This is the Zuccardi family’s reality. And because […]
(Atlas of the Future) Few chefs have the vision and skill to sow 223 varieties of native potatoes on their Andean restaurant’s high-altitude farmland, replicating the efforts of a neighbouring Inca agricultural research centre with a contemporary model in order to improve tuber genetics while collaborating with two indigenous communities. But Virgilio Martínez is doing […]
(Fine Dining Lovers) While wine bars reacted to Covid-19 emergency lockdown restrictions (relatively) easily, sommeliers in restaurants have dug deep to continue connecting diners to wine and other drinks. Many establishments are only open for delivery, while others in more advanced recovery phases are operating with limited capacities. But beyond the obvious difficulty of sampling […]
(Fine Dining Lovers) Born to potato farmers in Peru’s Cusco region, Manuel Choqque Bravo’s playground was the fertile Andean land where his family cultivated tubers at 3,740 metres above sea level. He’d while away days in the field, terrorising his younger siblings with strange-looking potatoes such as pumaqmaquin (Quechua for puma’s paw) or snacking on potato leaves and […]
(La Nación/Lugares) Aunque pasaron tres meses cerrados por el aislamiento social, el 12 de junio el chef propriétaire argentino Mauro Colagreco levantó nuevamente las persianas de Mirazur con un concepto gastronómico ultra vanguardista que está basado en el ciclo lunar – y ya tiene el salón completo hasta fin de año. El apetito de los […]
(La Nación/Lugares) Postergaciones, reconversiones y delivery son las recetas aplicadas por los cocineros argentinos en el exterior. El caso de Sunae Asian Cantina en Filipinas, La Cabrera, Fayer en Madrid y Zoilo en Londres. Como chef ejecutiva de Canta Lola, un restaurante de fusión peruana y nórdica en Estocolmo, a punto de abrir en julio, Manuela Carbone está a […]
(Imbibe) Health and safety measures, picker location tracing, and on-site living quarters: Argentina’s bodegas have worked hard to protect their 2020 harvests during Covid-19. Sorrel Moseley-Williams reports. When Argentina’s government implemented national lockdown from 20 March – with just three hours’ notice – many wineries in Mendoza had already reached the final stages of picking, […]
(Maleva) ¿Cómo sociedad, cómo nos estamos comportando los argentinos frente al Coronavirus? ¿Las medidas – de los distintos gobiernos – son apropiadas? ¿Qué características tenemos estos «bichos sociables» que somos en cuarentena? Nada más revelador (y por qué no, objetivo) que la mirada de afuera. Por eso en MALEVA consultamos a cinco extranjeros – todos destacados en lo suyo – […]
(Condé Nast Traveller) ‘The best time to visit Buenos Aires? Spring, which begins in September, when parks and wide avenues explode with jacarandas’ violet blossoms. Yet I’ve discovered a new-found affection for the Argentine capital’s striking autumnal hues. This year, the second season in the southern hemisphere has slunk in like a tardy teenager but, given […]
(Condé Nast Traveller) Previously overlooked for its nightlife scene and known only for a 230-acre cemetery, leafy Chacarita is suddenly Buenos Aires’ most exciting restaurant destination. To read this, please check out the May 2020 edition of Condé Nast Traveller.
