‘Michelinis are like mushrooms, they pop up everywhere’, joked UK wine journalist Tim Atkin MW during a tasting of four Argentinian producers who have just joined forces with upstanding UK wine merchant Corney & Barrow. Twenty-eight-year-old Manu Michelini retorted, ‘We are the new pandemic’.
Happily, the symptoms of the Michelini pandemic are an astonishing array of world-class wines, from two hemispheres, three countries and four projects, all the work of three winegrowers: Gerardo Michelini, Andrea Mufatto (Gerardo’s business and life partner)...