Three days was predictably too short a time to visit 25 producers in the south of the country and taste their wines, so in some of the tastings producers from a particular region graciously grouped together to allow me to see more without having to race between 25 different locations. Below are my tasting notes on 104 wines plus brief introductions to those producers, who are listed in the order I visited them, roughly west to south east, starting in Colonia by the Rio de la...
Uruguay 2017 – the wines
Wednesday 9 August 2017
See Uruguay 10 years on, published yesterday, for my introduction to this trip.
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