Vineyards in Mendoza, Argentina.

The New Diversity of Argentinian Wines

Fintan Kerr, 10.02.2022

Sub-regional differences and site-specific wines are changing the face of Argentina’s wine landscape. Plus tasting notes.

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If you stood to the far north of Argentina and walked south at a consistent pace of 20km/12m per day, it would take you six months to walk all the way: having arrived, the biting winds brought by the Falkland Current might well be enough to convince you to turn north and walk back again. Along the way you would pass close enough to the equator to shake hands with Apollo, stand in the shadows of the awe-inspiring Andes mountains, navigate rainforests, broad rivers and soaring temperatures before eventually finding yourself in the wind-swept plains of the south.

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