{"id":2391,"date":"2015-07-31T20:02:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T20:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/31\/report-from-the-evolution-of-argentina\/"},"modified":"2015-07-31T20:02:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T20:02:28","slug":"report-from-the-evolution-of-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/31\/report-from-the-evolution-of-argentina\/","title":{"rendered":"Report from: The Evolution of Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-2390\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Argentina_Map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Argentina_Map.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Argentina_Map-150x300.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>(July 29, 2015) &#8230;<\/strong> <\/em>It seems like it has been awhile since the Argentinian&#8217;s have been to town and talked about their wines instead of just letting us taste them &#8230; sure there was a tasting afterward, but first they had to inform us that much has changed in the land on the other side of the Andes: They have broken down the country into many appellations and three major regions &#8211; North, Cuyo and Patagonia. The whole of the country grows grapes between 1000 and 10,000 feet above sea level (300m &#8211; 3000m) &#8211; making it some of the most high altitude vineyards growing in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Most of Argentina&#8217;s grapes grow in the Cuyo region, where Mendoza is situated, this region is home to 95.52% of cultivates vines in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Grapes (vitis vinifera) first came to Argentina in 1551, brought by Spanish colonists &#8230; today it is the 5th largest producer, 9th largest exporter, 8th in cultivated surface and 7th in largest wine consumption.&nbsp; They also have some 1301 wineries within their borders.&nbsp; Mendoza grows 80% of the grapes, San Juan 16%, La Rioja 3% with at least 7 others growing less than 2% each.&nbsp; Wine is big business in Argentina, the Uco Valley alone has seen vineyards double since 2012.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ontheroadwithgrapeguy.blogspot.ca\/2015\/07\/report-from-evolution-of-argentina-july.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to see the wines of the seminar as well as a selection of non-Malbec wines<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(July 29, 2015) &#8230; It seems like it has been awhile since the Argentinian&#8217;s have been to town and talked about their wines instead of just letting us taste them &#8230; sure there was a tasting afterward, but first they had to inform us that much has changed in the land on the other side [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-road-with-the-grape-guy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.michaelpinkuswinereview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}