These are the top malbecs to try right now. The malbec grape originated in Cahors, a town in southwest France, during the time of the Roman Empire. In the nineteenth century, the first malbec vines ...

Far from its home in southwest France, Malbec has made a name for itself in Argentina since it was first introduced there in the mid-19 th century. Argentina boasts the world’s highest collective ...

Malbec has made quite a name for itself since it left southwest France and relocated to Argentina in the mid-19th century. While it is still grown in France, especially in Cahors, most of the ...

From its humble beginnings in France’s Cahors region to becoming Argentina’s signature red, Malbec has evolved into a global ...

Sven Vogtland is the sommelier for the Ritz-Carlton Fort Lauderdale, and a 13 year veteran of the craft who has served bottles in the sunny Virgin Islands and in far-away Vietnam. In this column, ...

Every year on April 17 we celebrate the time, in the mid-1800s, when a French soil expert introduced the malbec grape to Argentina. This day is called “dia mundial del malbec” or “malbec throughout ...

Who claims there are no second acts in life? Malbec, a virtually forgotten grape in its ancestral home of Bordeaux, has been reborn in a land thousands of miles away in another hemisphere. Although ...

Are we sick of malbec yet? This juicy red wine from Argentina has swept the United States. Hasn’t it become cliched, jumped the shark, worn out its welcome, gotten just so ... 2011? No. Every time I ...

Malbec’s near-extinction in Europe sparked its rebirth in South America, now the grape’s global stronghold and center of diversity. Long before it became Argentina’s signature grape, malbec was a ...