‘I’ll crush grapes with them anywhere, any time.”

So came a voice swirling up from the crowd, speaking for many, at a great grape event held last Sunday, where the brother-and-sister team of Alejandra and Jeronimo De Miguel held careful court. The full-bodied gratitude? ’Twas not just directed at the signature varietal of Argentina, coming at us here on the first-ever Malbec World Day — throw out your old calendars, people! — but also our impossibly glamorous, blood-related hosts.

The Toronto answer to Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal — but with goblets?! If there was even an opening for this sort of sibling sizzle, it occurred to me, then that position has been filled. I got to know them a bit, last month, after we hit the town (Buenos Aires, that is) during our converging trips to Argentina, and increasingly, I’ve noticed, the pair, who grew up here and are both McGill grads, have become must-must-haves on our own town’s social grids.

“We smashed the grapes this morning,” Alejandra told me with her easy, wide smile when we spoke at V1, an “urban winery” in the west end, where she and her brother had conspired to hold the Malbec high-ho on behalf of Wines of Argentina. Sadly, she went on to confirm, there was no stomping — à la Lucille Ball. Machines did the trick. (BTW: The crushables were flown in from the Mendoza wine region via the Trapiche’s 100% old-vine Malbec vineyards known as Finca Las Palmas. Grapes also went out to New York City as well as London for the multi-city event, and the wine that will be produced in Toronto is expected to be ready for Malbec World Day 2012.)

“It’s the one thing I miss the most,” lamented nearby Amanda Blakely, best known as one-half of “The Society Girls,” as she stood drinking only with her eyes. She was one of the many guests streaming through the afternoon event. Why, I started to ask … when duh, I remembered: She’s pregnant! Along with her other half, Ashleigh Dempster (who was also about). Through some twilight zone serendipity, both gals are expecting their first child at the same time, due within days of each other in September!

So, alas: Besides a stalking-worthy brother-sister Argentine twosome, and ladies who like Malbec but are too “with child” to have some, the event also featured a non-stop traditional asado (BBQ), a gotta-have-it tango show and, well, keeping up with a certain national pedigree, gobs of pretty pretty people.

At one point, let me just end, when a guest accidentally broke a glass, and someone else swooped in almost instantly to clean up the mess, it was noticed that the sweeper was beyond gorgeous. “Should I break my glass, too?” asked yet someone else, attentively watching.