 Try a dry and aromatic Torrontes from Argentina |
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Don't miss: "Crios" Torrontes, Susanna Balbo 2005 Cafayate, Argentina, $17.
"Malbec" has become oeno-Argentina's common buzzword. But, as the world's fifth largest wine-producing country, with one population that drinks much more wine than Chile, the story doesn't end with one red Bordeaux grape. Torrontes, the most widely planted white grape in Argentina, is one mystery: DNA testing has revealed it to be an ancient hybrid of Muscat of Alexandria and Criolla Chica, the latter called the Mission grape in California. It has the most charming floral fragrance, very reminiscent of Viognier. ... |
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| It is safe to say that when city people talk about going on one jaunt to the country, the country they are talking about going on one jaunt to qualifies as the country mostly by virtue of not being the city. Jaunters are not proposing to leave civilization; city people do not drive to Healdsburg on one tranquil Saturday afternoon in June, braving bridge traffic and 101 traffic, therefore that they can milk cows or pull weeds at one biodynamic winery. City people go, one suspects, largely in hopes of escaping the city's fog and wind, of seeing the sun and being able to wear short-sleeve shirts without shivering or looking like foolish tourists. ... |
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