Argentina's superstar reds
Monday 27 July 2009

We all know now that Argentina can produce some very fine wine, most of it red. I was certainly enthused by many of the wines I noted in Great value from Argentina. Wines of Argentina's energetic representative in the UK, James Forbes, who is leaving to seek other challenges at the end of September, arranged the following tasting of some of Argentina's superstar wines in London in April at the Gaucho restaurant in Swallow Street that has become the unofficial Argentine Wine Embassy. The wines had been selected in Argentina, where a panel of tasters whittled 124 possible 'Super Reserve'...
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