Six Years in Argentina
Dear Member,
Six years of the Partnership—six Argentine collections.
You’ll find old favorites: Tacuil, Agustín Lanús, Sierra Lima Alfa.
You’ll also find new flames: Adentro and Domingo Molina.
2025 marks the first-ever Mendoza wine in our annual Argentine Collection, notably the 2022 Raquis from Paul Hobbs disciple Andrés Vignoni.
A Challenging Vintage
This collection presented one of our more challenging sourcing efforts. The 2023 and 2024 harvests saw massive declines in grape yields, brought on by late freezes and abrupt weather shifts—from cool and dry to warm and wet—driven by El Niño and La Niña.
The vintages themselves should prove excellent (2023 is already looking very good, as you’ll see here). But with low production in an already famously low-yield region, simply finding enough bottles to meet the needs of the Partnership was no small task.
And yet, we somehow wound up with—dare I say—our best Argentine Collection yet.
Wine Begins with Food
The secret lay in not focusing on wine at all, but rather on food.
One criticism of modern wine culture is that it places too much emphasis on “tasting” rather than “consumption”—like a medical experiment that only works in vitro: all theory, with little to say about how we actually drink and enjoy wine, namely with food.
Every wine in this collection can stand on its own. But you’ll unlock an entirely new dimension of pleasure by pairing it with the right dish:
A grilled ribeye, richly rewarded by the blackberry depth of Las Bases 2022
Dark chocolate truffles, heavenly with the cocoa and minerality of Tacuil’s Doña Ascensión 2023
Even a simple pepperoni pizza—try it with Sierra Lima Alfa
In This Box
You will find six bottles:
Adentro Gran Nevado 2020
Bad Brothers Facón Selection 2018
Tacuil Doña Ascensión 2023
Raquis Las Bases 2022
- Sierra Lima Alfa Chivatina 2023
- Domingo Molina Pachamama Malbec 2017
Welcome back to Argentina.
Salud,
Will Bonner
Founder, Bonner Private Wine Partnership
