Posts Tagged ‘Torrontés’
Peru Wine
The first Vines planted in South America were in Peru, in the heights of Cusco, near the ancient Incan city, Machu Picchu. Spanish Colonisers planted the first South American Vines in the 1540s. As Cusco sits at a height of 3,399m, Winemakers started looking for somewhere new to plant Vines, settling on the city of…
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The first Grapevines were planted in Bolivia in the 1560s by Spanish missionaries, which were brought over on Spanish ships. The tropical environment in particular regions really tested some of the Grape varieties, but they found that the high-altitude plains in the Andean mountain served as a very fitting location for viticulture. The first bottle…
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