Food, drink and travel writer + sommelier | Argentina + Latin America
(Condé Nast Traveler) Vigneron Leonardo Erazo Lynch is a terroir and sustainable-viticulture champion who creates vintages from 100-year-old bush vines cultivated in the volcanic soils of Chile’s southern Itata province, celebrating under-appreciated varieties such as Cinsault and Carignan. A leading light in South America’s natural-wine movement, he honed his experience in South Africa’s Swartland and Mendoza […]
(Time Out) Buenos Aires: What makes us great: Whether you want to devour your own weight in steak, sip skin-contact wine or dance all that off to tango (or all three), Buenos Aires is bursting with late-night gratification. Though the city has not yet bounced back to its pre-pandemic buzz, BA was still voted the world’s […]
For ONLY magazine, August 2021.
(Time Out, June 2021) We quizzed 27,000 city-dwellers and asked local experts to rank the top streets in the world for food, fun, culture and community A bustling thoroughfare linking smart Palermo with edgier Villa Crespo, Calle Thames is best known for its independent kitchens and watering holes, many housed in repurposed buildings. Foodies revere […]
(The Essentialist) Longing to roam free? Chase the scent of adventure beginning in the world’s most southern city, hugging the Andes and navigating north through Patagonia before heading east to the Atlantic. A road trip traversing such vast and striking landscapes makes for the perfect slow-travel voyage, to be filed under ‘epic’. For the rest […]
(Condé Nast Traveller) These are the best of restaurants to have opened in the last year, our 2021 Hot List. They are the spots we can’t wait to eat in as soon as it’s safe to do so. FAYER, Madrid, Spain Having introduced their fascinating mix of Argentine and contemporary Israeli cooking to Buenos Aires four years ago, […]
(Condé Nast Traveller) Why book?Come for the boutique estancia, stay for the candle-lit barbecue suppers, endless pampas landscape and comforting dose of all-inclusive TLC from host Cinders Paxton. Set the scenePaxton is currently working with local social-distancing rules to welcome just four guests at a time, who get to play in eight hectares of farmland […]
(Good Beer Hunting) It’s a balmy summer afternoon when I set off with Hernán Castellani on a cruise around the low-slung suburbs of Greater Buenos Aires. We’re in search of what was, until recently, elusive here: good beer, made with care. Castellani, who operates the cuckoo brewing project Sir Hopper, has offered to take me […]
(Monocle) Achieving sustainable business practices results in a virtuous circle that benefits the production process, employees, communities nearby and the planet. Sofía Pescarmona is a third-generation co-owner of Argentina’s Bodega Lagarde, founded in the country’s most famous wine province, Mendoza, in 1897. She runs the winery with her sister Lucila (pictured, on left, with Sofía), […]
(The Essentialist) Unique architecture, stunning Andean panorama, and delicious regional fare make this family-run winery one of the world’s best. For The Essentialist.