How Argentina’s ‘mountain wines’ are taking it to new heights

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The Buyer | How Argentina’s ‘mountain wines’ are taking it to new heights

Standing in the foothills of the Andes, staring up at the ever-changing majesty of what is such a magnificent, beautiful mountain range, it’s hard not to be caught up in the moment. Is there a more magical place in the world to make wine? Well, for the wine producers and winemakers lucky enough...

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One of the things they dance around in this article is climate change. My son is in the wine industry, and he tells me that french and italian grapes are making sweeter, more alcoholic wines now, due to higher mean temperatures in europe.
But the same varietals of grapes, as mentioned in the article, make wines that taste like french and italian wines did 40 years ago, if grown at higher elevations and cooler climates, as in the Andes. Which is why there is all this new investment in Argentine vinyards- because certain types of wine in europe just dont taste the same anymore, but the same grapes here can reproduce the classic flavors.