… or as the official name goes the Calchaqui Valley. The whole region has an elevation of 1700 to 2800 meters and has 4000 ha of vineyards. The scenery is spectacular this has to be mentioned right from the beginning, vineyards tucked between breathtaking mountains, amazing roughed landscape. High altitude wine making, with no doubt as probably the highest commercial vineyard the Finca Colomé around Molinos /Payogasta/ on 3002 m is here.

One of the great foreign investment in Mendoza, in Luján de Cuyo is Alta Vista from the Edonia group which owns several other properties around the world, notably the ones in Bordeaux (St-Emillion, St Estèphe), Champagne and Hungary (Tokaj). They all share at least one common thing, they’re all make good wine.

Today almost everybody does Chardonnay and Cabernet, it can not be emphasized enough how important it is to have the diversity not just of the terroir but also the grape variety. Especially in the new world as the variety tends to be the major calling card and vineyard site rather comes as a distant second. Said that, there is a tendence to prove me wrong, for which I´m glad.