Not Chile, and not Malbec. Vineyard in Gualtallary in Mendoza's Uco Valley pictured above courtesy of Zuccardi, who grow Cabernet Franc here.
Argentina’s wine producers, hampered by a shrinking domestic wine market and what the UK wine trade’s longest-serving Argentine wine specialist Phil Crozier calls ‘Malbec fatigue’, know that they have to widen their offer. This is particularly pressing when tastes in many quarters have been turning away from heavy reds to whites, rosés and sparkling wines.
Admittedly, with plantings ever higher in the Andean foothills and increased focus on labels more specific than ‘Mendoza’, it has become easier to...