One wine critic and a lot of Argentine wine

About Jeremy Young

I'm Jeremy Young, Senior Editor at International Wine Report. I taste and score wine for a living, mostly from the Pacific Northwest and California, and I hold the WSET Level 3 with Distinction.

Outside of wine I build software and run a couple of small marketing and AI businesses. That's why this site exists as a site and not a spreadsheet.

Why this project

There's no list to finish here. I review any wine from Argentina that I can get in the glass, whatever the grape, the province or the price, and every one gets a written review, a score and a permanent page. Every review is published here and on International Wine Report.

The provinces, IGs and grapes on the site are there to help you find your way around the reviews. If a winery or an importer wants a second or a third wine tasted, send them and I'll write them all up.

Samples and scores

Samples are welcome. Plenty of Argentine wines never reach the US market, so for a lot of them a sample is the only way a bottle reaches me. Every review says how I got the bottle, and a sample is always marked as a sample.

Scores are mine, on the 100-point scale I use at International Wine Report. There's no way to pay for a review or a score, and sending a bottle doesn't buy a kind one.

Send two bottles

Every wine submitted needs two bottles. That's a requirement.

The first one gets opened and scored. The second is there because bottles fail. Cork taint, heat damage in transit, a bad closure: any of those and the wine I taste isn't the wine you made. With a backup on the shelf I open the second bottle and your wine still gets its review. With only one, I have to write to you and wait, and some of these wines take months to reach me the first time.

The second bottle also lets me re-taste before I publish when a wine is close to a score boundary, and it gives me a clean bottle to photograph.

Contact

The fastest way to reach me about a bottle is the form. For anything else, email jeremy@theargentinawineproject.com.