The annual Decanter World Wine Awards sets the global benchmark for excellence in wines. Judges drawn from an international cohort apply rigourous blind tasting, precise scoring, and calibrations that send clear signals to producers and consumers which are the wines that must be experienced. In 2025, Argentina achieved a landmark performance that crystallizes two truths: quality advances across its regions, and its leading bodegas speak with focus and confidence. Decanter awarded 50 Best in Show, 137 Platinum, and 732 Gold medals across all countries, numbers that confirm a step change in elite quality at the competition as a whole. Within that panorama, Argentina secured two Best in Show, seven Platinum, and 37 Gold medals, its best top-tier haul to date. This result carries weight as it validates long-term viticultural decisions and careful oenology, while deepening interest from collectors, sommeliers, and travelling wine lovers.  Argentina’s viticulture boasts high altit...

  Argentina’s recent showing at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA) underscored the country’s dominance as South America’s top producing wine region, largely due to its enviable yet distinct terroir. The awarding of no less than four of the top fifty Best In Show medals from a field of 18,244 wines cements the Mendoza region as one which can deliver, arguably, unmatched value in wine varietals. Today we will feature the remaining three vintages made in the region that won medals in the Best In Show category. That they are produced by three completely different wineries within different sub-regions of Mendoza, is a further demonstration of Argentina's prowess as a bastion of wine production on the southern continent. The Avinea Group’s Pacheco Pereda’s Best in Show medal was for its Estirpe Organic Fairtrade Cabernet Franc , produced in the Lujan de Cuyo sub-region of Mendoza. The 2021 vintage, which achieved a score of 97 points, has a deep black-red colour, with warm, s...

Having steadily earned its place as one of the biggest wine-producing countries in the world, Argentina’s rich history in winemaking dates back to the first arrival of the Spanish with vines in the mid-1550s. Virtually all of its wine regions are located in the western edge of the country, along the corridor of the Andes mountain range, and bordering Chile. The best known of these is, of course, Mendoza whose Maipu , Luján de Cuyo, Uco Valley, San Rafael and San Martin sub-regions of over 1200 wineries cements its status as the wine mecca of South America. The country, however, produces award-winning wines in several other regions including the province of San Juan, located a little over two hours north of Mendoza. Ranked second among the country’s wine producing provinces, San Juan is home to Bodegas Callia which won 3 awards at the recently held Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA) 2022, including the coveted platinum medal for its Contracara Reserva Malbec . This 100% Malbec, produced...