Article: South America's Napa.(travel to Argentina's premiere wine district, Mendoza)

Byline: Brian Byrnes

Every time I visit the vineyards of Mendoza--a two-hour flight from my home in Buenos Aires--I end up spending hours chatting with the winery owners. It's not that these guys aren't busy. Argentina is the world's fifth-largest wine producer, and exports have tripled over the last decade; 70 percent of the country's wine comes out of Mendoza. But the vintners always make time for a quick hello or--

better yet--an impromptu barrel tasting. I've sipped a Malbec-Cabernet-Merlot blend with the gregarious Walter Bressia in the cluttered cellar of his eponymous winery and chatted with Jose Manuel Ortega of O. Fournier over Frisbee-size ...

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