By Gabriela Malizia for WineSur.comA tasting including wines priced at up to AR$550, having scored 93 or above by Robert Parker and 92 or above by Stephen Tanzer, enabled a great number of people to find out the characteristics of what international “gurus” regard as the best wines of Argentina.
At six o’clock in the afternoon in Argentina, at the “Hotel Intercontinental Mendoza”, Aldo Graziani and Maco Lucioni, journalists and sommeliers, started to guide the “Argentina Premium Tasting” with an audience of 250 people. The parade of 23 bottles promised to fill glasses with the best Argentine exponents or at least the favorite wines of the weighty international critics, Robert Parker and Stephen Tanzer. They were expensive and complex wines, with high scores, made by barrel and bottle aging. All of them are red wines, mostly round and fleshy, flaunting great color and concentration: the Premium wine tasting managed to deliver what it has promised.
Wines were blind tasted in 5 different groups. Some of the people present played to guess the name of each wine, its winemaker, vintage, composition, region, terroir, climate, and others. The Masters of Ceremonies were revealing little by little the information, such as varietal and vintage. Finally, they gave the name of the wine, as well as its price, winery and winemaker. Winemakers were also protagonist when they talked about their wines and explained some of their characteristics.
This way, the parade began as follows:...Read Full Article
