South America

Map of the South America region producer of wine

The South America is the second producer of wine in the world behind Europe. The viticulture and the wine tradition has been brought by the Conquistadores in the XVIe century. The grapevine is generally planted in the Andes in South America because of the ideal climate.
The echanges with Europe have allowed to South America to develop its culture of the wine thus to realize the production of excellent wines.

The Chili was the first country growing of wine in South Africa. Thanks to the travels realized by the landowner natives from Europe, the wine culture took its boom at the beginning of the XVIIe.
During this century was borned all the famous vineyard like Concha y Toro, Carmen, Santa Rita and Santa Carolina in the valley of Maipo.
The most famous chilean wines are today Casillero del Diablo, Marqués de Casa Concha, Almaviva and Montes Alpha.

Vineyard in Chili

The first grapevine was planted in 1550 in Argentina thanks to the Conquistadores. This country owns the seventh vineyard of the world with a surface of 220 000 hectares. This vineyard is located in three different regions:

- The West-Center of Argentina that represents 92% of the vineyard

- The North-West including the Rioja, Catamarca, Salta and Jujuy (5% of the vineyard)

- The South with the Rio Negro, Neuquen and La Pimpa (3% of the vineyard)

The Argentina use basicaly three grapes, the malbec, the cabernet and the pinot noir. The red wnes represent 60% of the global production but rosé are also important with 30% of the production. Today this country has developed its agriculture of wine and product some great wine. In 2014, Vinalies Internationales elected "Famiglia Blanchi Reserve" the best red wine of the world. 

Vineyard in Argentina

The Brazil is non known country about wine but it's important to say that its product some great wines. 
The production of wine is concentrated essentially in the state of Rio Grande do Sul and in Sao Francisco River Valley. The Brazil respect a german and italian tradition and thus use five differents grapes like the riesling, the tannat, the cabernet-sauvignon,the gamay and finally the gewurztraminer. 
In term of quality, the brazilian wines are considered as medium but according to specialists it will gradually improve. 

Vineyard in Brazil