Plans for today (2026)

A great couple of hours at the wine tasting. The wine was from an Argentinian vineyard called " Altos de Hormiga" (roughly translated as "Ant Heights")
The first offering was a white wine prepared with semillon, chenin, and pedro jimenez grapes. Very nice indeed - and I'm not a white wine person.
Then we tried 3 different Malbec wines. The bog standard (9 months), the reserve (15 months) and the special reserve (3 years). Really good, really great, and outstanding - in that order.
A really enjoyable evening!
 
Morning Glory said:
Should be easily available in Australia as lots of vineyards there grow that grape. The Australian ones are easily available here too:

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/293736545
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Given i don't drink... it's not one I have heard of.

I typically only cook with wine occasionally, and stick with "yellow tail" which have more vegan wines than not. I've had anaphylaxis following a meal where the only possible source of the contaminant was the wine that was cleaned/ filtered using milk. So I stick with totally vegan wines now when I cook. I also have to avoid milk stouts as well.
 
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The Malbec grape originated in SW France, but turned up in Argentina in the 19th century. It was only used for mixing with other grapes in France and, to begin with, in Argentina as well. However, some Italian enologists decided, some time ago, the the grape was perfectly good to stand on its own. Argentina is now renowned for its Malbec wines.
 
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