Ernesto Catena of the famed Argentinean winemaking family is responsible for this luscious wine. Something of a self-styled iconoclast, he has produced a rich but in no sense overblown red that, while delicious now, has plenty of life ahead of it. Bonarda remains a primarily workhorse variety, but in the hands of talented vintner, it can yield wines of surprisingly complexity. That’s definitely the case here.
Tahuan, Mendoza (Argentina) Bonarda 2010
By Paul Lukacs