Six of the best wines from Argentina

Although home to the popular Malbec, there are so much more to Argentinian wines than their most famous export

Argentina loves its wine, so much so it is considered a food, not a drink there. 

An Argentina focus this week, a country that Ireland has a huge affinity with given our equal love of conversation, drinking and dancing. I should also mention beef which they make (nearly!) as well as we do here in Ireland, but in addition to excellent grass fed beef they also make a wine that could be said to match it better than any other - Malbec. If you don’t believe me ask any butcher in Ireland, I have yet to meet one that did not want to talk to me about the joys of Malbec.

Buenos Aires is a wonderful food city and it is no accident that it is the second largest city for wine consumption in the world after Paris. Wine is considered a food not a drink there - there was a time when a pint of plain had the same status in Cork and Dublin. If anyone tasted Francis Mallmann’s amazing slow-cooked barbecue at LitFest in Ballymaloe in 2016 they will have an idea of why I love Argentina so much.