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 ...

It was recently Malbec Day. Every year this unusual grape variety is celebrated on April 17. But why drink it just on one day of the year? It is an interesting grape variety, comparatively little ...

Donae Burston marketed La Fête du Rosé to appeal to people of color who have been overlooked by the wine industry, but of course any delicious rosé from Provence will succeed with anyone. As should ...

The best thing that can happen for an Old World wine region associated with a single grape variety is for another upstart region to have success with that variety. It happened in the village of ...

When you think of malbec, you probably think of a big, fruit-forward red wine, a perfect pairing for a grilled burger or steak. You also are likely to think of Argentina, where the grape has thrived ...

While Malbec is the grape that put Argentine wine on the world map, many wine lovers have forgotten that this bold variety is a French immigrant. Frenchman Michel Pouget brought the grape to Argentina ...

A Bordeaux native now loving life in Argentina, heat-seeking Malbec is basically the wine equivalent of a well-worn leather jacket. Wines made from Malbec are robust, inky purple, and quite tannic. In ...

When I hear the word Malbec, I think Argentina. The grape produces that country's signature red wine that's won us over with its ripe dark fruit flavors, peppery spice and earthiness, and some ...

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 ...