Just ask Charles Bieler, winemaker from Three Thieves Wines, whose head was still spinning when he met with us a day after he'd returned from a multi-day visit to Argentina's wineries ( click here to see some of his favorite malbecs).

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Wine Tour Urbano currently takes place in the historic Monserrat district, offering tour participants the opportunity to taste velvety pinot noirs by a Patagonian winery in the lantern-lit cloisters of a 1700s Jesuit church or rich malbecs by a Mendoza bodega at a frescoed, 19th-century pharmacy.

BBC: Creative wine tasting in Buenos Aires