Saturday, February 4, 2012

Trapiche

September 3, 2010 by  
Filed under Feisty Fun, The Beer Boor

The largest of the malbec producers in Argentina, Trapiche, sent winemaker Carla Castorina to visit their importers, Frederick Wildman and Sons, Ltd. I was fortunate enough to be invited to meet with her, along with several other beverage-type writers from blogs and newspapers and wine sites. Frederick Wildman redid their offices when they moved here decades ago, and the tasting room looks convincingly like a wine cellar — except for the sunny south-facing windows, granted — with a rounded ceiling (covered in stamped metal with a grapevine motif), brick wall behind the library of books in the picture above, and… [...]