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Malbec is the most important red grape variety of Argentina, but it also produces excellent wine in many other countries around the world. Brian Freedman is a wine, spirits, travel, and food writer; ...

Discover why Malbec is considered Argentina's signature wine in this engaging conversation between two wine enthusiasts. Learn how the Mendoza region's location by the Andes mountains, combined with ...

Looking for something to drink as the region thaws? You’ll want a red wine, and you may want to give a malbec a try. Orphaned from Bordeaux, where it was used as a minor blending grape, most malbecs ...

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 ...

These are the top malbecs to try right now. The malbec grape originated in Cahors, a town in southwest France, during the time of the Roman Empire. In the nineteenth century, the first malbec vines ...

Have American wine drinkers fallen out of love with Argentine Malbec? The question would have been unthinkable 14 years ago, the last time I devoted a column to Malbec. That column’s title: “How ...

Cooking meat on a grill with a glass of wine - Alex Photo Stock/Shutterstock If you've ever been to Argentina, you know that an asado isn't just a meal, it's an event. Like yerba mate is a national ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brian Freedman covers wine, spirits, food, and travel. It’s all too easy to fall into the trap of thinking about a particular kind ...

“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 ...