Spaniard José Manuel Fournier was attracted to Argentina by Mendoza’s proliferation of older vines, including a high proportion of Tempranillo. The winery is situated in the now highly-fashionable Uco Valley, in the south of Mendoza, rising to 1,400m above sea level beneath the snow-capped Andes. Winemaker José Spisso has played a masterstroke in combining the old-vine Tempranillo with high-altitude Malbec – a grape which the Uco Valley does as well as anywhere in the world – to produce some of South America’s greatest reds. The range stands out as ‘interesting’ wines with real character, in stark contrast to a lot of the fruity, mass-produced stuff on offer from much of the rest of Latin America.