Patagonian wines from Chile and Argentina

Two London tastings late last year demonstrated the high quality potential – and immense challenges – of making wine in southern Patagonia, in both Argentina and Chile. These wines come from vineyards much further south than those in Argentina’s Neuquén and Río Negro that I wrote about in Patagonia – the tip of the iceberg? and the one that Jancis visited and wrote about in The world’s most southerly vineyard?

While there are many similarities between these two Patagonian projects...