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Article: Sip of Andean hillsides
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- New Straits Times
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- July 8, 2007
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Tan Bee Hong
New Straits Times
07-08-2007
Sip of Andean hillsides
Byline: Tan Bee Hong
Edition: New Sunday Times
Section: Sunday People
Column: All about wine
IT'S an arid, desert region but these characteristics are what makes the Mendoza province of Argentina so perfect for viticulture.
However, due to its hilly nature, the vineyards had to be carved out of terraces on the hillsides and irrigated with snow-melt water from the Andean mountains.
It was here that Moet and Chandon sent winemaker Renaud Poirier in 1959 to launch its first vineyards outside of France. Decades of successful production followed and in 1999, Moet Hennessy Wine Estates and Bodegas Chandon Argentina inaugurated the ...
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