Vintage Cellars Catalogue - 28/04-29/06/2021 (Page 32)

south america fertile ground for a whole suite of delicious new world variedades outh america has a long and storied history with in 1524 it was decreed by hernán cortés that old world cuttings were to be used to cultivate grape vines in every spanish settlement in the americas the rapid spread of grapevines over the spanish- colonised continent was aided by the fact that jesuit missionaries required wine for religious services that country's pre-eminence was threatened in came to an abrupt halt in 1687 after an earthquake never recovered but peru has seen a marked increase in grape-growing and wine-making in recent years chile and argentina largely ignored directives from their own wines to oxidised spanish drops that had in the 19th and 20th centuries brought their wine the story of argentina's most famous wine botanist michel pouget transformed the argentinian wine industry when in 1853 he began cultivating grape argentina is now the world's fifth-largest wine in the valleys along the coast from the atacama region to the bio-bio region to the south april 17 is now observed as world malbec day but there's more to celebrate in the world of south vintagecellars.com.au