High-Altitude Vineyards That Are Changing Wine
Sorrel (Wine Enthusiast) From the Mosel’s Riesling vines that dip at dizzying 70-degree angles, to the Canary Islands’ arid garia holes that harbor Malvasía, or Norwegian vineyards located at 59º latitude,…
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Argentina’s best restaurant pops up in the Uco Valley
(The Drinks Business) Dubbed Tegui SuperUco, the pop-up is spearheaded by Germán Martitegui, whose flagship restaurant Tegui is currently at number 10 on Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurants list. The…
Riccitelli labels by Marcos López
(Wallpaper*) After meeting at a wine store in Bern, Switzerland, fellow Argentines Matías Riccitelli and Marcos López, respectively an oenologist and photographer/visual artist, took their budding friendship a step further…
Eat List: Mendoza, Argentina
(New Worlder) Where there’s fantastic wine, fantastic food invariably follows, and Mendoza’s dining scene lives up to this rule. Winery fine dining was pioneered by Francis Mallmann’s Restaurante 1884 at…
Tegui: officially 49th best in the world
(Buenos Aires Herald) MELBOURNE — For the first time in 15 years, Argentina houses one of the world’s 50 best restaurants with 49th place going to Buenos Aires’ Tegui. The…
A Bolivian Grape Harvest with Steven Soderbergh
(Munchies) Singani is made from Muscat of Alexandria grapes, cultivated in Bolivia’s mountainous vineyards. The Ocean’s Trilogy director has been hooked on the spirit since his first taste ten years…
Rock star
(Wallpaper*) Rock star: Zuccardi Valle de Uco, Mendoza. The icing on the design cake for Zuccardi’s mammoth project is picking up a gold medal for architecture and landscaping from Great…
The Pedro Aznar-Marcelo Pelleriti enological alliance
(New Worlder) A founding member of Argentine rock band Serú Girán, a Grammy-award winner, and now 99 James Suckling points for his first blend: Pedro Aznar’s talents seemingly know no…
How a Guy from Arizona Ended Up Running a One-Man Winery in Argentina
(Munchies) It’s 3 AM on a Saturday night in downtown Mendoza in the Cuyo region of Argentina, and Brennan Firth has just passed out in his kebab. The Arizona-born winemaker…
Somm-elle-rie
Congrats Les Fidèles de Bacchus on your first online issue! You can read my contribution about ladies rocking the world of somm-elle-rie in the #WorldsBestSommArg contest here https://appsto.re/ca/KPeO-.i (iPad only).