Casa

· Wine + dining Casa Cavia is the plush Palermo Chico townhouse where Buenos Aires drinks the wine it wants to be seen drinking — a restored 1920s mansion with a courtyard, a flower shop, a bookshop and a bar that runs the city's most elegantly curated by-the-glass programme of Argentine chardonnay. Head sommelier Paz Levinson, who placed fourth in the 2016 Best Sommelier of the World competition, set up the cellar before stepping back to a consulting role, and the programme has retained her precision.

The white wine bench is the city's best, with serious vertical sets of Catena Alta and Zuccardi Aluvional. Ranks sixth because the price ceiling is real but the cellar discipline is unimpeachable.

For the full ranking, see our editorial round-up of the 10 best wine bars in Buenos-Aires, the broader Buenos-Aires wine bars guide, and our category index of wine bars worldwide.