Archive for June, 2010

Beyond malbec: Buying into Argentina’s other hot wines

Beyond malbec: Buying into Argentina’s other hot wines by Beppi Crosariol Malbec is sort of the Diego Maradona of wine. Two decades after the soccer god’s glory days, he pretty much remains the universal answer to the challenge: “Name an athlete from Argentina.” If you can name one grape grown in Argentina, I’ll bet your [...]

Wicker and wine

Wicker and wine Harvest begins in February in the Barossa, when the hills are golden and the grapes are fat on their vines. Before dawn, while it is cool and crisp, machines trundle between the leafy rows, plucking the fruit. They are still at it an hour before sunrise but everything else is silent – [...]