History

was no longer consumed solely at church on Sundays.

Subsequent immigration also contributed to the potential of this land’s current wine scene. Argentina now boasts one of the world’s widest ranges of available grape varieties largely because settlers brought rootstocks from their original homes in France, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Germany, to name a few.

Two of the most important varieties today are Malbec, an old French cépage that has become the champion of Argentina’s wine revolution and flourishes in high-altitude terroirs at the foothills of the majestic Andes, and Torrontés, the favorite indigenous white grape of Argentina.

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