As promised, Buenos Aires Stay is updating our Argentina Wines Blog, with our favorite Argentine rose (rosado) wines and Argentina Sweet (dulce) wines.
You may well have missed our earlier guides so we list links to the best and cheapest wines found on the shelves of supermarkets and wine shops in Buenos Aires for your convenience:
- Best Argentina Red (vino tinto) Wines
- Best Argentina White (vino blanco) Wines
- Best Argentina Champagne (vino espumantes) Wines
- Malbec Wine Argentina
We are told that Argentine rose wines are growing in popularity both at home and on the world wine market. We are not sure if that is just hype we picked up from the Argentina Wines Expo at La Rural to promote sales or maybe it is true. What is true, is more and more Rose wines appear on the shelves each year, that suggests consumer demand and most certainly the quality has improved.
What you may have gathered from our various Argentina Wine Blogs, is that we are great fans of Argentine wines. Through all our blogs there is a common thread – the great quality of Argentina wines versus price and our belief that Argentina wines improve with astonishing pace.
Argentina wines will no doubt continue to WOW the new world wine market (if not the their snobby European competition) and Argentina wines will become as common place on French tables as local wines due to their quality and price tag.
Our great friend, a French woman who has lived in London for over forty years, told us recently, ‘Ere, lissen to your MUM-MÈRE, the supermarkets in France are full of Argentine wines, the French are appy lapping’em up.’ Well done Argentina, wonderful producers have achieved such success in just over 20 years.
Back on point, our first guide lists our favorite Rose wines in descending order of preference. Price is relative; we think Argentine wines are great value for money.
$$$ Expensive Vino / $$ Moderately Expensive Vino / $ The Value Vino
We have found ourselves a little under fire for some of our comments, and here is another; we have never had a truly excellent Rose wine produced in Argentina – yet! Although, we have had some very good wines, most have been a little too much like a fruit cup with no complexity or balance for our taste, but hey, everyone is entitled to their own opinions ah? Having said that, we are promised some boutique wines, we are reliably informed will change our minds.
- Malma Rose 2007, Malbec y Cab Sav by NQN $
- Rose de Atamisque 2007, Malbec by Atamisque $
- Jean River Rose 2007, Malbec by River $
- Familias Gascon Rose 2007, Malbec y Sangiovese by Escorihuela Gascon $
- Alta Vista Rose 2007, Malbec by Alta Vista $
- Tomero 2008, Malbec by Bodega Vistalba $
- Lurton 2007, Bonarda by J&F Lurton $
- Lititud 33 Rosado 2007, Pinot Noir by Chandon $
At home, we have a sweet tooth and sweet (pudding) wines have always found their way to the table to compliment our desert, cheese and my favorite, pan-fried Foie Gras. Recently, we asked a large poultry farmer why it is difficult to find Foie Gras in Argentina, firstly he told me to travel down to Patagonia where it is locally produced and he said with a quirky smile playing to our ‘Britishness’, ‘besides, we are not fond of force-feeding our food like your European foe.’ It made us chuckle, because he said it and because everyone knows how much we adore France – especially me with a ‘MUM-MÈRE’ at home!
Rambling again, back on point, our next guide lists our favorite sweet (dulce) wines in descending order of preference. Price is relative; we think Argentine wines are great value for money.
$$$ Expensive Vino / $$ Moderately Expensive Vino / $ The Value Vino
The Luigi Bosca and Rutini wine have not always been at the top of my favorite lists, until we get the sweet (dulce) wines. There is just one sweet wine we recommend, it is a stunner though, and as we list just one we will tell you why:
Luigi Bosca 2006 Gewurztraminer by Luigi Bosca we just love. A wonderful deep golden tone, great body, complex with floral and tropical fruits crush aromas and tastes with some spice. You might laugh at this, we know the particular fruits and see them in our minds-eye, but when writing this we still cannot remember their names. We are amateurs, enthusiasts, who cares right? Not, we sat there last night glass up nose for hours and that is the best we can do!! This wine also has something ‘natural’ and fresh about it with good acidity and a very satisfying finish that makes you want to neck the glass and wait for the drops! $$
Another, because I feel a little bad – Rutini vino dulce 2004 Corte by La Rural is another great wine, not nearly as good as the Luigi Bosca, that we rate highly and about 50% more expensive, but an excellent blend. $$$
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