Argentina, Chile and Uruguay are at the top of their game, says Sam Wylie-Harris.

International Tannat Day is celebrated on April 14th, commemorating the day in 1894 that Pascual Harriague passed away. Harriague was Uruguay's original champion of Tannat, first planting the grape ...

Cabernet franc and petit verdot have made, and continue to make, high marks among Virginia red wines. Now, enter tannat, a little-known grape that burst on the wine scene last month by not only ...

You don’t have to be an etymologist to see the connection between the grape tannat and the wine component tannin. The seldom-seen grape makes a wine with high levels of tannin, a natural component ...

If past experience with tannat has led you to regard these red wines as inky, oak-forward, and stern in character, you will be pleasantly surprised by what Uruguay’s next-generation winemakers are ...

In Uruguay, the locals found Tannat to be the perfect tipple to cut through a fatty steak -- of which they eat more per capita than almost any other nation ...

In 2013, Montevideo, Uruguay hosted a blind wine-tasting contest. Tasters sampled tannat wines, made with a grape originating (but not universally beloved) in France, that is now a prized export of ...

Argentina and Chile have been successful exporting favored Bordeaux blending grapes, malbec and carmenere respectively, and neighboring Uruguay is following suit with tannat, which is native to ...

When it comes to wine from South America, two countries often steal the spotlight – Argentina and Chile. But they’re not the only places where you can find outstanding wines. Just east of the Rio De ...