Argentina Wines and Wine Regions

Patagonia is one of the world's most incredible landscapes and regions. Shared between Chile and Argentina, both lay claim to this amazing display of beauty and vastness. Argentine Patagonia is spectacularly famous for housing glacier parks and whale watching as well as being named the resting spot to the world's southern most city, Ushuaia. Vacationing in Patagonia means really stepping outside of the traditional Argentina vacation. With so many vacationers heading to Buenos Aires for its culture, north to Mendoza for wine tasting or up north to visit warmer climates, Patagonia is often labeled as a region too rustic to be refined and thus, left off of the map for luxury vacationers. Certainly, it goes under appreciated for wine visitors who almost certainly flock to Argentina's Mendoza region for wine tasting. However, while Patagonian wilderness is legendary and the beauty wildly spectacular, wineries focusing on cool-climate varieties are emerging in northern Patagonia, adding culture and refinement to a region that is otherwise left solely for the adventurer.

Within this breathtaking landscape are new, breathtaking wines. The region is relatively new to the wine scene, but is making incredible strides in the industry. With so much focus on Mendoza, Argentina's other wine regions often go unnoticed and even more unnoticed are Argentina's more southern wineries. The weather here might be deemed too harsh for the production of fine wines, but with the infusion of new technology and investments in the effort, a number of excellent wineries are producing not only cool-climate varietals but also adapting Malbecs and Merlots to the area. So you can bet that an Argentina wine tour through this region would be an unforgettable journey.

The southern region of Argentina's Patagonia is in some way the key to success for many of these wineries. The air is cool and dry, with very little humidity and rainfall. During the vine stages of the wine, the weather is at its warmest, fostering excellent growth in the clean mountain air. The Rio Negro region of Patagonia is also known for its high winds, a factor which reduces the chance of disease spreading within the vines. This allows growers to employ a more organic method in cultivating the grapes and in many ways can be viewed as an ideal conducive to the nature of Patagonia itself. Fresh, clean and healthy for the mind and body, Patagonia seems to embrace nature and a natural way of producing wine.

Because of the popularity of Mendoza, Patagonia has been increadibly under utilized for the production of wine. Mostly because the focus for wine growth was clustered in the north where growing conditions are more traditional it hasn't been until just recently that wineries have begun to emerge in Patagonia, utilizing land that was otherwise never considered for the cultivation of wine. Winery owners in the south view Patagonian wine as a very special niche for growing wine and have utilized the region's beauty and wildness to market wines that are standing out to world markets because of their uniqueness. Aside from the uniqueness of Patagonian wine, the quality is also incredibly high and wineries in the region have excellent success in cultivating sparkling wines, Champagnes and other cool climate varieties. What gives these wineries such depth however, has been their ability to grow red varietals as well, those with a quality that can easily match many of the Malbecs coming out of Mendoza.

The mountain air, the silent hills, the beauty of the region and now, the incredible wine coming out of it, make Patagonia one of the most romantic places for wine experts and vacationers eager to see the next up and coming thing. The secret is out about Patagonia and the whispers are quickly spreading about its incredible wine. Enjoying wine from the place where it is grown has been an incredible draw for wine enthusiasts. Now wine lovers can enjoy their adventurous side at the same time while vacationing in Patagonia.

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