How much does the Argentine wine that slipped into a Netflix series cost?

“In the midst of an international crisis, a diplomat tries to balance her new job as ambassador to the United Kingdom and her turbulent marriage to a political celebrity,” is the description of the new series of Netflix which premiered last Thursday. The plot of this production is carried out by Keri Russell, actress who participated inThe Americans”.

In the story, Kate Wyller, a career diplomat, is appointed to take up a place at the embassy in Kabul, but an accident on an English fishing boat forces her to attend a diplomatic mission in London. But beyond the story, a no lesser detail stands out in the content of Netflix and involves Argentina.

In episode five, Cecilia Dennison (T’Nia Miller) and Hal Wyler (Rufus Sewell) appear lying in the French countryside drinking a wine, but not just any, but a DV Catena Historic Red Cabernet Francfrom the renowned Mendoza winery Catena Zapata.

Faced with this discovery, the renowned oenologist of the winery of Lujan de Cuyo, Alejandro Vigil explained: “It is a wine that we thought about 12 years ago and was born as a tribute to ‘the French grape’ as Malbec was known in the past and referred to the blend of Malbec-Petit Verdot which was normally found in the vineyards. Based on that first Historic Red, we began to work on other varieties that arrived along with the Malbec. so we did Cabernet Frac”.

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In this regard, the specialist explained: “It is a line that is sold in several countries around the world, but strongly in England.” According Wine Searcher, Known as the world’s Google of wine, the bottle is priced at $13 on the British market and is not available in Argentina.

As for the 8-episode series, Netflix has not yet confirmed a second season, but it is estimated that it will have a new installment according to the end of the last episode that left an interesting hook. A bet on the platform that contains a powerful cast headed by Michael McKean, like US President William Raybun, David Gyasi (The Sandman), Ato Essandoh (Chicago Med), Ali Ahn, Rory Kinnear (Black Mirror), Celia Imrie, Nana Mensah and Miguel Sandoval.

by RN

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