
Welcome to the 2026 Argentina Collection
Six wines from northern Argentina and Mendoza that reflect how the club has matured, returning to its roots with deeper intention.

Six wines from northern Argentina and Mendoza that reflect how the club has matured, returning to its roots with deeper intention.

Dear Member, A common criticism of American wine culture comes down to temperature: we serve our whites too cold and our reds too warm. It should therefore come as no surprise that whites have edged out reds during the summer…

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…

A Season for Old Vines Dear Member, Many of the vines that birthed the six bottles before you have seen more than one French Republic rise and fall. In that time, fashions have gone from boom to bust, and countless…

A Southern Hemisphere Interlude Dear Member, Down in the Southern Hemisphere, the Lombardy poplars and willows have shifted from green to gold. The winds are drifting in, said to “blow away the oxygen” at the highest altitudes. They certainly blow…

Spain: New Traditions, Deep Roots Dear Member, It’s been two years since we last sourced a Spanish collection. In preparation for this one, we looked back at our previous booklets and noticed a lot of waxing on about the past.…

Dear Member, Located just over the Andes Mountains from Argentina’s Mendoza region, it can be tempting to describe Chilean wine as analogous to its eastern sister. True, there are similarities: vineyards planted in Andean foothills; a Bordeaux grape once thought…

Dear Member, The first time we brought winemaker Julien Miquel up to the Calchaquí Valley with us, he described a sensation of awe that almost bordered on fear. The vast, alien landscapes. The thin blue sky. Miles of dry desert…


Dear Member, From its Trans-Caucasian origins, wine likely came to western Europe with the Phoenicians around 1,000 B.C. We don’t know much about the Phoenicians. They left behind no written record. And the ancient Greeks get most of the credit…