PRODUCTION REGIONS

"Fresh air, bright skies and infinite silence are only interrupted by the whisper of the winds passing through from the Andes Mountains, carrying along mysterious aromas from bushes and wild fruits."

The best wines in the southern hemisphere come from a narrow latitude strip, between parallels 30 and 38, with key points in Chile, Argentina, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, where ideal conditions are given to obtain the maximum expression in aromas and flavors.

In Argentina, the provinces of Mendoza and San Juan are located between latitude 30º and 36º, in the region known as Cuyo and the province of Neuquén is located at latitude 38, on the north margin of Patagonia. The vineyards where our products are cultivated are at the foot of the Andes. The plantations are irrigated with water from the glaciers (melt-water) in the Andes Mountain Range and benefit from a combination of good soils with a unique climate.

The Cuyo Region

80% of the country’s vineyards and 90% of the wineries are in the Cuyo region, where the wine industry is specially concentrated in the province of Mendoza. The province is famous for its wineries and has been awarded internationally for the excellent quality of its wines, which is why it is recognized as the “the land of the sun and the good wine”.

The climate is the secret of the region; with its luminous summers and dry, cold winters, it presents extreme dryness due to lack of precipitations and wide daily and seasonal thermal amplitude.

The cultivation lands are mainly found in irrigated oases. The water comes from the mountain range as melt-water and is used for flood irrigation in spring and summer. This irrigation system was created by the native Huarpes and kept to our day as one of the main irrigation systems in use.

As regards to grape varieties, one of the main ones is Cabernet Sauvignon, although Malbec is no doubt the emblematic or flag grape of Argentina, and surely the most characteristic in the region, for which wines produced with that particular variety have obtained international recognition and great prestige.

In addition to the best known varieties, we have other traditional grapes that were brought by the first settlers over 150 years ago (Pedro Jimenez, Semillón, etc.). These grapes are used for producing common wines and also for agro-industrial purposes such as juice processing, the confectionary, dairy and pharmaceutical industries and alcoholic beverage production (other than wines).

The Patagonia Region

The Patagonian wine production, known as wines from the cold zones, is centered in the valleys of Río Negro and Río Colorado, where white varieties such as Torrontés from La Rioja, San Juan and Mendoza, Pedro Jimenez, Semillón, Sauvignon and Chenin Blanc, and red varieties such as Malbec, Merlot, Syrah, Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon and Bonarda have been successfully adapted.

The climate, of great thermal amplitude during the grape maturation stage, as well as the soil conditions that present rocky and alluvial patches, excellent phytosanitary conditions, distinctive luminosity, scarcity of precipitations and low levels of humidity, favor the consolidation of the Patagonian wine industry at international levels.

Patagonia is renown internationally for the great variety and extreme beauty of its landscapes. Patagonian habitats, many of which have the most unique characteristics in the world, are protected as natural parks and reserves.

This is a land of extremes, where it is possible to feel the lowest temperatures of the continent, and also 45 degrees centigrade in the summer time; where lands of the Patagonian mountain range, with the greatest percentage of precipitations in the country, coexist with large areas of dry terrain in the central Plateau.

Patagonia is a geographic region located in the southernmost part of America that comprises territories of the South of Argentina and Chile. This region is politically divided in two: the Argentine Patagonia to the east and the Chilean Patagonia to the west.

The Argentine Patagonia has an extension of 903.446 km2, from The Andes Mountain Range, to the Atlantic Ocean, and from the Río Colorado in the northern sector to the south of Cape Horn, in the Drake Passage.

The Chilean Patagonia is a region that extends from its northern limit on the Río Calle-Calle in the city of Valdivia, in the region of Los Ríos, to the south, reaching Cape Horn in the Magallanes and Chilean Antartic regions, including the Aysen Region.