Wines of Argentina

Argentina: Award-winning wines to celebrate Malbec World Day

Top 97-point Malbec wines from Decanter World Wine Awards...

15 award-winning Malbec & Malbec blends to try

What's changing in Argentinian Malbec winemaking

It’s easy to forget that someone has to turn grapes into wine...

Argentina: The ideal terroir

Argentina boasts a wealth of natural resources and areas of great scenic beauty, including high summits and plains, lush forests and absolutely arid deserts, woods and steppes, glaciers and waterfalls. Any landscape you may imagine, you can find somewhere on Argentine soil. Find out more with this interactive map...

Argentine Customs: Stuffed pasta

A decanter.com promotion. A typical Sunday scenario is a long line of people queuing for fresh pasta.

Argentine wines increasingly sought-after by collectors

Trapiche: Forging The Path of Argentine Winemaking Since 1883

A decanter.com promotion. More than one hundred and thirty years of achievements have earned Trapiche a place in the heart of Argentine winemaking.

The diversity of Argentinian white wines

Agrelo; home of Malbec and touristic heart of Argentine wine

The booming cuisine and wines of Patagonia

Leading the way for Patagonian wine: Fin del Mundo y Malma

Argentina wine trends: what will we be drinking in 2016?

Salentein, the heart and soul of the Uco Valley

A decanter.com promotion. Bodegas Salentein is the heart and soul of the Uco Valley – a magnificent project that has captured the imagination of the Argentine people and wine lovers from around the world.

Six facts about Argentine Malbec

A decanter.com promotion. Nobody can deny that Malbec is synonymous with Argentina. However, there are other elements that help to form a partnership between a country and a grape.

What do you need to know about Argentina to understand its wines

Wine is like the people who make it and drink it. It’s like the land from where it is born and it’s reflected in the people who want to be near it. Here are seven indispensable things you need to know...

Salta: vineyards and empanadas in the shade of a cactus

Unique in the world, the province of Salta, in northwestern Argentina, offers stunning mountains, giant cacti and unforgettable wines.

New styles of Malbec are emerging from outside Mendoza

Argentina offers many different styles of Malbec. Most of them from Mendoza, but there are a handful of other Malbec’s worth discovering.

The long road of Torrontés

The only native variety of Argentina with international projection, according to recent studies, Torrontés originated on some Jesuit plot in the early eighteenth century, from where it began its long road to internationalisation.

The A-Z of the Argentine wine industry

An insight to our culture: the way we are and the way we speak. In 2015, we invite you to learn more about the ABC of the Argentine wine industry.

The asado: an Argentine barbecue experience to savour with red wine

There are two asados, one is the ritual of preparing it and the other is the ritual of cooking it. In Argentina, it is a huge event of eating delicious meat and drinking good wines, which no traveller should miss.

Why is Malbec synonymous with Argentina?

It is the most widely planted red grape, the most exported and the one that best represents each terroir of the country. But why does it not have this significance in other countries? The answer is in its long history.

Argentine Bubbles: Key to understanding a growing consumer phenomenon

Argentine sparkling wines are gaining ground in the world. Read about what’s caused this rise and what you need to know about them.

Malbec of Mendoza: diversity of flavours

The province of Mendoza produces the greatest amount of Malbec in the country, and the nuances of the different areas become relevant when choosing a wine. So how does it differ?

Beyond Malbec: three Argentine varieties to watch

For some more surprises, it’s worth looking out for these Argentine Malbec varieties and labels.

Six things you didn’t know about Argentine wine

What does a Malbec taste like? Why drink Torrontés? What curious story lies behind Bonarda? Why is Cabernet Franc taking off now?

Mascota Vineyards, an exclusive portfolio of signature wines

Unanime - when exceptional climate and passionate people harmoniously come together as one

Finca Las Moras: shaking the wine world’s status-quo

Bold concepts, edgy packaging and high quality wines come together to wipe the dust off old boring protocol, making new generations fall head over heels for wine.

The rise of Argentine Cabernet Sauvignon

I'm now on my seventh tour of all the Argentine wine regions. This means thousands of miles of long and fascinating tours in commercial and twin-engine planes, buses, 4×4's, and of course, on foot and on horseback.

Argentina wine technology

On the three computer screens are the schemes of a finca (farm). On the one on the right, green, red and yellow spots represent the vigour index of the plants. On the middle one, there are points of various blues which detail the temperature of each sensor in the vineyard. On the third one, in the form of coloured lines in the direction of the grooves, there are orange or yellow lines depending on the electrical conductivity of the ground.

Wine, in the nose

Smell is one of the most primitive senses of man, which has enabled him to discern what sort of things to eat and what to avoid. Through evolution, pleasing aromas were discovered and classified. We are able to smell more than 100,000 scents, but not identify them.