"Then in 1990, Marcelo Miras caught the attention of Humberto Canale’s third genera on president Guillermo Barzi, who saw a rising star in Marcelo, who started harvesting grapes at age five in San Rafael, Mendoza, received degrees in oenology and frutihorticolas, and...
“Set off the main road from the medieval village of Puyloubier, the Domaine has 100 acres of vines spread on gentle slopes around the estate. Along the Champs Elysees, the cheekily named path that extends between the vineyards, the Syrah vines are tidily trellised,...
"Incognito you might wonder, what is Miras, the truly great winemaker of Patagonia, doing inside this old winery building? He is already Chief Winemaker at Del Fin Del Mundo (Patagonia’s largest winery), and is designing wineries and orchestrating the winemaking...
October 2017 saw devastating wildfires hit parts of Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino counties. Several months later, Wine Spectator visited a few of the hardest-hit wineries, including Signorello, Mayacamas and Paradise Ridge, to check on their recovery. READ MORE...
The weather is picking new winners and losers in the wine world. Annual wine output last year was up in Argentina, Australia, and South Africa, but down in France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Chile, and China. The net result is that global wine production dropped to a...
"Behind this large grey door, inside a building with a disguised name on the wall (from a previous winery tenant “Estepa”) is the making of Marcelo Miras’s personal collection of wines."
"As one of the newest wineries in Río Negro, Bodega Aniello has taken a new approach to farming their grapes. They planted vineyards right along the river. Farming in Río Negro valley was made possible through an elaborate canal system, designed a hundred years ago,...
"The wine regions of Patagonia are located in Neuquén and Río Negro, and La Pampa. The vineyards are clustered primarily in the areas where the two provinces come together in their north, far from the Andes Mountains, and where the two rivers of Limay and Neuquén...
"Estancia Colomé is a private hacienda where Donald Hess and Bodega Colomé invite special guests in grand style. It has a hacienda-style layout with central courtyard and nine very luxurious rooms surrounding an authentic Spanish courtyard complete with antiques and...
If you're obsessed with red wine (aren't we all?), you probably drink less of it in the summer and more of it in the winter. That's just how it goes: a glass of Pinot sounds better when cozied up by a fire than when sweating by a pool. Needing a warm-weather...