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These scores were obtained at the World Ranking Wines and Spirits, which is annually gathered by the World Association Wine & Spirit Writers & Journalist, worldwide known as WAWWJ.

The new wineries La Rural for Premium wines, Atamisque, a French-capital start up for high rank wines, and Don Manuel Villafañe, a company of American, Asian and Argentine capital will be completed this year.

After an intense workday in which the great French enologist Michel Rolland tasted 360 wines included in the 2008 edition of the book Wines of Argentina, his comments were conclusive: I am really surprised, I have tasted almost all of the top level Argentine wines in the market and I have found very few (I can count on one hand) that I haven’t liked.

The signing of this agreement will allow the financing that we are providing through the Fund for Transformation and Growth (FTC) to continue, and to cover the absence of financing in the long term for the private sector,” the minister of Production, Technology and Innovation, Guillermo Migliozzi expressed, after the signing of a specific agreement with the Regional Agricultural Restructuring Program that the national government has carried forward.

The explosive emergence of Malbec from Argentina is like nothing we’ve seen since the sudden rise of Merlot more than a decade ago, and this is even more interesting

With the participation of international winemaking experts, it will be held from the 22nd to the 26 of February in Mendoza, Argentina, the third edition of the competition of Argentine wines for export, Argentina Wine Awards. On this occasion, the activity of the seminar will be focused on four key markets for wine exports: the United States, Canada, Brazil, and the United Kingdom.

The Anglo-Australian giant of the mining industry Rio Tinto announced the sale yesterday of its potassium development project in Argentina and of an iron mine in Brazil for 1.6 billion dollars in order to reduce its gigantic debts.

One of the most influential men in the United States tasted more than 600 Argentine wines. Here we show you how the International Wine Cellar critic scored. In addition, the expert enophile spoke of the characteristics of the varieties and the mistakes that Argentina makes. Which were the highest scoring wines.

The Argentine government gave a strong signal yesterday to the financial world when it confirmed the success of a guaranteed loans exchange. This reached 15.1 billion pesos, registering almost 97% voluntary acceptance from creditors.

The figure represents a record revenue reaching US$ 848.1 million. The grape and wine production sector leads this trend.