Malbec is Argentina’s signature grape, with the best examples coming from sites within Mendoza. While once Argentinian wine was big and bold often with point-scoring in mind, today the region’s top producers are crafting fresher, lighter, more site-driven styles that are turning heads.
Wine has been produced in Argentina since the 1500s, but it was after the opening of the railway between Buenos Aires and Mendoza in 1885 that Argentina made its first wine-stained mark.