Not all wine is created equal. Wine grape varieties have different characteristics (and different price tags). Malbec is a mouth-filling red with some specific characteristics making it the right ...

In the minds of American wine drinkers, Argentina is best known for its malbec and few other exported styles. However, many in Argentina envision a wine future centering on a different red grape: ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about several great wines from Argentina other than malbec. This week, I couldn’t resist writing about malbec wines from this South American country. There’s a reason why ...

All Malbecs are not created equal, and not all Malbecs are produced in Argentina. Research suggests that the Malbec grape originated in southwestern France and was cultivated in the region for ...

There’s something comforting about something familiar around the holidays. Maybe that’s why so many of us (myself included) watch movies like “A Christmas Story” (best Christmas movie, period) or ...

The wine in my first glass is inky, a dense, tooth-staining shade. As is the wine in the next glass, and the one after. I have more than 40 to “get through”—before lunch—a daunting task, if color can ...

“We have a delicious secret—Argentina is more than Malbec,” says Matt Hedges, co-founder of Vino del Sol. “Thinking of Argentina as only Malbec is like thinking of California as only Zinfandel.” The ...

The most unusual wine I tasted this year was a bubbly from Slovenia called Untouched by Light. It was made by the Radgonske Gorice winery, which dates back to the Hapsburgs, with the premise that any ...

Mendoza, Argentina — MATiAS MAYOL slowly pours a bottle of his family’s Malbec wine into a 3-foot-deep hole in the backyard of his cousin’s Mendoza, Argentina, home and silently prays: Pachamama, you ...

We know malbec as the main red grape of Argentina. Traditionally, though, it was part of Bordeaux’s blend, but it fell out of favor there, especially after a deadly frost in February 1956 killed many ...

Costco's private label features a few red wines that'll make you feel fine — and keep you rocking all the time. That's what Business Insider's retail team found out when we sampled a few options ...