From more unknown red-wine grapes to great bottles of white wine, there’s interest to be found in Argentine wine
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Altos Las Hormigas Colonia Las Liebres Mendoza Bonarda Clasica Mendoza 2023 (from £12.49, Shelved, Hay Wines, Fenwick) For food and drink producers, there are certain benefits to working in a region world-renowned for doing one thing very well. Whether the product in question is parmesan, jersey royals or champagne, it means a lot of marketing has been done on your behalf before you so much as milk a cow or pick a potato or grape. But for the ambitious, it can be restrictive when it comes to making subtle tweaks. Argentine winemakers, for example, are proud their country has become synonymous with a single red grape variety. But rather than talking up their malbecs, many will be much happier showing off wines they make from other varieties, such as the super-supple, spicy succulence of Altos Las Hormigas’s refreshingly red plum-juicy bonarda.
