Bonarda is Argentina's best kept secret and yet is the second most widely planted red grape variety. The Zuccardi Valles Bonarda is a wonderful soft and juicy example sourced from vineyards in the Mendoza. It has a delicious bouquet of fresh, dark cherries, crème de cassis and exuberant blackberry fruit notes. The palate is soft, fruity and very juicy.
Some years before 1950, engineer Alberto ‘Tito’ Zuccardi arrived in Mendoza from Tucumán, the small province in northwest Argentina where his Italian grandparents had settled many years before. He began experimenting with new irrigation systems because, back then as is the...
Located in the Cuyo region, Mendoza is by far the largest and most important wine-growing province in Argentina. Located on a high-altitude plateau at the edge of the Andes Mountains, the province is responsible for roughly 70% of the...
It is estimated that there are more than 10,000 grape varieties in present commercial production, yet this probably includes the same grapes under other names. With the increase of DNA fingerprinting it is thought that the real number might come down closer to 5,000.
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