Wine region · Argentina
Patagonia
Argentina’s southern frontier, cooler and windier, producing elegant Pinot Noir and Malbec.
About Patagonia
Río Negro and Neuquén are cooler and windier than Mendoza, and produce lighter, more aromatic wines with higher acidity.
Patagonian Pinot Noir has emerged as a distinctive category, and old Malbec plantings in Río Negro produce unusually savoury examples.
No authority delimits this name or attaches rules to it. A country’s major wine division, usually containing appellations or sub-regions beneath it. That does not make it less real or less useful — it means nothing legal follows from it, and you will not generally find it on a label as a controlled designation.
Grapes
Wines from here
What to eat, and how to serve it
Derived from this region’s signature styles. Each is listed separately, because a region does not have one serving temperature.
Argentine Malbec
Serve at 16–18°C (cool room temperature).
Try with steak, steak with chimichurri or steak and ale pie.
Sources
Sources consulted
- Wines of Argentina / Instituto Nacional de Vitivinicultura — Wines of Argentina; INV