“Pour yourself a generous glass of Argentina. Savour the cosmopolitan pop and fizzle of Buenos Aires, the hum of a city in a whirl of theatres, bars and fine restaurants. Breathe deeply the Latin passion of its people and their flair for fashion and five-star velvet comforts.

Then hold this huge, exuberant country before you and marvel at its many landscapes; the rich and vigorous pampas, the thundering tropical Iguazu falls, green and verdant Mendoza amidst a sun-scorched desert, the ice-tipped rim of the captivating Andes, romantic Patagonia and the giant blue glaciers that lead you to the end of the world.

Finally taste it – the sweet and wholesome hospitality, the salty leather-skinned gaucho, the bitter romance of tango that acts like a laudanum to doomed love, the famous red meat. Argentina is like the fiery red wines it produces – vigorous, racy, sensational.”