🍴Pairings

Syrah is one of the great food reds, and Argentina makes the case loudly. The bold, warm-climate style is a natural with the asado — a juicy choripán, grilled sausages, ribs, anything smoky off the coals. The structured, peppery high-altitude style flatters more serious fare: grilled red meat, lamb, game, and pepper-crusted steak, where its spice meets the seasoning head-on. Either way, serve it a touch cool to keep that lively fruit and spice in focus — see our note on how to serve Argentine wine.

If you have worked through Argentina's reds — the plush king Malbec, the structured Cabernet Sauvignon, the juicy Bonarda — Syrah is the spicy wildcard, the grape that can be a sunny crowd-pleaser one night and a brooding, savory mountain red the next. Few grapes give you two such different pleasures from a single name.

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Try it with: choripán & grilled sausages (bold style); pepper-crusted steak, lamb & game (high-altitude style). Serve slightly cool.