I don't really know much about wine as, unfortunately, you will quickly discover but I want to try to talk about what I have found out. You'll learn that I am not big on South American wines nor Australian nor South African, so if we talk about them at all, it means something. Of course, there is one exception: Argentina. For me wines and Argentina are like rain and Portland, Oregon: there is a little lying going on to keep the people (maybe in both cases Californians) away from the good stuff. The secret? Malbec is not the good grape. Despite all the marketing and all the attention to Mendoza's trademark grape, it doesn't make the mark. Occasionally I'll refer to pouring out a bottle of wine and I haven't met a Malbec I didn't pour out. But when I was in Argentina someone told me the secret. They send the stuff they don't like to the U.S. and keep the good stuff. That would be the Cabernet Sauvignon. Now I can promise you it is, of course, better and cheaper there, but the one we do have and you can find pretty easily is the Navarro Correas' Cabernet Sauvignon 2004. This, to me, is the epitome of Menoza's finest. Sure they have expensive versions, that, yes, are better but normally you can nail this for about $10 so try it. Before RED, this was my everyday wine.
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