Step out onto the terrace of the Bodega Vinorum in Luján de Cuyo and, glancing at the elegant iron wrought railings and the railway station clock, you feel like you are on an old-fashioned train platform. It is the perfect departure point for a tour of Argentina's most famous wine region, the province of Mendoza at the foot of the Andes mountains. Wine flourishes here, amid the area's dry microclimate, altitude and stony soil of a former riverbed. "At the end of the 19th century, the first migra
Piedmont, with its world-famous barolo wines and annual Alba white truffle festival, is an unsung autumnal delight. Victoria Grier explores the region’s towns, cuisine and vine-covered landscape
What makes a good or bad year for wine?But the paper argues that because there is broad consensus about what makes good versus bad wine, the taste scores offer a reliable means to monitor how crops are changing over time and they attempted to statistically control for the effects of improving winemaking technology.