Food, drink and travel writer + sommelier | Argentina + Latin America
(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 […]
(La Nación) Los resultados de la nueva edición de los World’s 50 Best Bars confirman que Buenos Aires no solo es líder de coctelería en el continente sino que también se posicionó en el mundo. Aunque por momentos los productos pueden faltar, hay una inmensa búsqueda y creatividad a la hora de la creación de […]
(Food & Wine) Elevation prevails in Argentina thanks to the magnificent Andes, the north-south backbone of the South American country, whose 2,361 mile-length bestows diverse terroir upon the world’s fifth-largest wine producer. Centrally located Mendoza, whose vineyards are framed by icy peaks then irrigated by their meltwater, is key given that it produces 76 percent […]
(Fodor’s) Yungay is a rough diamond of a neighborhood, one where colonial and Belle Époque architecture converge with street art, and residents greet each other by name. Founded in 1839, Chileans know Yungay is considered the country’s first barrio and was once a magnet for well-heeled European migrants who constructed stylish mansions in the 19th century. Central […]
Thousands of microdistilleries are helping to change the face of Brazil’s national spirit, creating aged and wood-blended expressions that are pulling in new fans. If life gives you limes, make Caipirinhas. The sweet yet zingy cocktail muddled with the green citrus fruit, white cachaça and sugar fuels Brazilians and, given that they consume 99% of […]
(Decanter) Approved by the INV viticultural institute on 1 July, Balcarce is the fourth GI to be named in the province of Buenos Aires. The province was largely abandoned as a winemaking region in the 1930s following a law permitting wine to be made only in the Andean Cuyo region, but is is slowly making a […]
(La Nación) En 2021 alcanzó el puesto 13 en el ranking de The World’s 50 Best Restaurants -los 50 mejores restaurantes del mundo- y por cuarto año consecutivo, Parrilla Don Julio mantuvo su presencia en la lista más reconocida del mundo gastronómico en el puesto 14. El anuncio se hizo en Londres, en una ceremonia presencial en […]
(Condé Nast Traveler) Food can be an important vehicle for change—an idea embodied by Accra-born, New York-raised Selassie Atadika, chef and founder, Midunu and The Midunu Institute. She started her career as a humanitarian response worker for UNICEF, and her travels across 40 African countries brought her to food. For the rest of this, please visit Condé […]
(Condé Nast Traveler) Some say that in the coming decades, zero-waste eating will be the new locavorism (the latter should simply be the norm in good restaurants). One of the movement’s leaders is the U.K.-based McMaster, who opened Silo in Brighton, England, in 2014 with plates made from recycled plastic bags and tables from industrial floor tiles, composting […]
(Condé Nast Traveler) Having grown up on a high-altitude farm in Peru’s Cusco region, Choqque has been studying the country’s 6,400 native potato varieties since his father showed him how to hand-pollinate in a bid to improve tuber genetics. “We had 380 types in our collection, entering them in competitions in hopes of winning a tractor,” he […]