Argentinian producer Trapiche showcases the elasticity and subtlety that Malbec is capable of in its Terroir Series, bringing to light the diversity of soils and subzones of the Mendoza region in an elegant, studied manner. My latest for The Tasting Panel.
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White Bones & White Stones: A Lesson in Terroir
Terroir—the notion that the place in which grapes are grown gives them a unique flavor—is an overwrought wine term, or so I’d thought until I tasted two single vineyard Chardonnays by Argentina’s Bodega Catena Zapata.