Bigger Than Your Head

Bigger Than Your Head

Wine of the Week

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Fredric Koeppel
May 19, 2008
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Here's a nifty little Argentine malbec -- the country's great success grape -- with plenty of oomph to stand up to burgers, hearty

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pizzas and pasta dishes, grilled pork chops and perhaps even a ribeye steak. El Portillo -- the portal or gateway -- is perched about a thousand meters above the Mendoza valley in that area's Uco region. The winery's Malbec …

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