EVERYTHING ABOUT Weinert in Argentina suggests that the company has been there for generations. There’s the winery itself, housed in a Romanesque nineteenthcentury building in Mendoza, full of huge oak casks of slowly ageing wine. But most of all it’s in the glass.
In a country where the wines can be clean to the point of tedium, Weinert stands out. Its wines are full of heady fruit, like cooked strawberries or maraschino cherries; there’s old leather, nuts and hints of vinegar and farmyard. The nearest comparison