Wine Club: great value picks from Argentina’s Penedo Borges

Well, crikey, that was fun! The recent inaugural Spectator tour of Champagne, that is. We had a hoot, visiting five producers and enjoying two first-rate dinners courtesy of Taittinger and Pol Roger. We learned lots, laughed lots, drank lots and I don’t think a single spittoon was sullied during the entire trip. Bravo!

Oh, and hats off to Peter Brown who came top of the rigorous end of tour examination and who got a bottle of Pol for his troubles. Well done, Peter!

After a week of fizz, though, however swanky the wines (and some were very swanky), it’s a joy to encounter some tasty still wines of great value such as these we’re offering here. All come from Penedo Borges, a state-of-the-art boutique bodega in Agrelo, Luján de Cuyo, a sub-region of Mendoza, Argentina, and are shipped exclusively into the UK by our partners, Mr Wheeler. Here, at 1,050 metres in the foothills of the Andes, it’s both sunny and cool, perfect conditions for harvesting fully ripened grapes with great colour, structure and freshness.