Wine with Leslie: Some winter-warmer wines including an impressive red for €10
Leslie's wine choices this week will help you cope with the cold snap.
A lot can be learned from looking into a hole in a vineyard. And one person who knows this more than most is Martin Kaiser, the much-lauded viticulturist of Doña Paula in Argentina. I visited him in 2015 and spent a good bit of time looking into holes, sometimes climbing into them, to examine contrasting layers of soil structure, often within the same vineyard. While geologists are adamant that no minerals make their way from the soil into the wine, wines from different types of soil in different locations do taste different and Martin has made it his mission to figure it all out.
Late last year, Doña Paula showcased a fascinating selection of wines from plots at different altitudes in the Uco Valley over a Zoom seminar. We were all sent miniature samples and it was hugely interesting to taste wines made in much the same way but sourced from different altitudes and plots.
