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Argentinian Wine

The most important wine-producing country in South America and at long last one of the most dynamic wine producers in the world. The vine probably arrived in Argentina by four different routes. The first was directly from Spain in 1541 when vines are thought to have been cultivated, without great success on the Atlantic coast around the river Plate. A year later seeds of dried grapes were germinated as a result of an expedition from Peru to the current wine regions immediately east of the Andes. Another expedition from Peru in 1550 also imported vines to Argentina, while the fourth and most important vine importation came from Chile in 1556, just two years after the vine was introduced to Chile's Central Valley.
The single greatest factor in making Argentina's wine suitable for export has arguably been the widespread use of foreign consultants and in some cases "flying winemakers".

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