Stumbling across producers of classy, undiscovered wines is one of the pleasures of driving though Mendoza, Argentina’s premier wine-producing province and the Mecca of Malbec. But a half-mile detour off the well-trodden wine route, down a bumpy unpaved track, yields a real find; not a boutique winery, but something more unusual altogether: a boutique distillery.
There, behind a simple black gate, in an old olive-processing factory, a Hungarian entrepreneur and his American partner are turning the country’s signature wine into the world’s first single-grape vodka.
