Tastings Columnists Dorothy Gaiter and John Brecher review Argentinian Malbecs - a low cost, full flavored wine. We wouldn't usually revisit a type of wine just 18 months after a broad blind tasting.

Is a $3 bottle of wine worth drinking? Yes, if it's Trader Joe's Charles Shaw merlot. Charles Shaw beat far pricier merlots when our experts recently tasted dozens of malbecs, merlots, and pinot noirs ...

Have American wine drinkers fallen out of love with Argentine Malbec? The question would have been unthinkable 14 years ago, the last time I devoted a column to Malbec. That column’s title: “How ...

A grape known as côt in the Cahors region of France and made famous by Argentina continues to build support in the Northwest under the name of malbec. This red Bordeaux variety has become a rising ...

From respected winemaker Laura Catena, a rich, ample Malbec made from older vines from three vineyards in the Uco Valley of Argentina. The 2011 Luca Malbec, mostly aged in French oak, has an inviting ...

FOR the last few years the wine business has been riddled with dire warnings and disastrous portents. In the United States and around the world, producers have struggled with the bad economy and the ...

Malbec is a bold and juicy red grape with origins in Bordeaux, the celebrated region in France where the variety is known as Cot and often far from the spotlight. The landscape for malbec has changed ...

Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. It’s here again; Malbec ...

Not many wine countries are as closely associated with a particular grape variety as Argentina. The grape is, of course, malbec. Malbec came to Argentina’s largest wine region Mendoza in the mid-19th ...