The corner of Dorrego and Castillo where Buenos Aires relearned vermouth, poured from taps and made with Zuccardi wines in Mendoza.
La Fuerza opened on January 9, 2018 at Avenida Dorrego 1409 with one job: make the porteno vermouth ritual current again. The founding team pairs bar operator Julian Diaz with winemaker Sebastian Zuccardi, and the house vermouths, one red, one white, come off taps and get built with Mendoza wine.
Time magazine put the room on its World's Greatest Places list in 2019, and Infobae chronicled how the corner became a template for the city's vermuteria revival. Order at the bar, take a sifon of soda, and split the picada.
Who would hate it? Anyone chasing a 14 step cocktail program. The menu here is short on purpose, and the vermouth is the whole argument.
The room reads as a classic Buenos Aires corner bar: tall windows on two streets, tiled floor, marble topped tables, and the bottle wall glowing behind the taps. Vinomanos called it "the corner Buenos Aires needed," and the sidewalk tables fill first on warm evenings. Daylight suits it as well as midnight.
Start with the house red over ice with a splash of soda from the sifon; the white with tonic runs lighter and drier. The short cocktail list leans on the same base, a solid Negroni among them, and the kitchen sends out picadas, conservas, and sandwiches built for sharing. Come during vermouth hour, weekdays 6 to 7:30pm or weekend noons, when the pour prices drop.
Early evenings bring neighbors and editors of the city's food press; weekend noons run multigenerational, families included. The room peaks between 7 and 9pm, then settles into a slower late shift.