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Place & Climate · Mendoza / High-altitude vineyards

Why Some Winemakers Are Moving Uphill

Altitude is no longer just a number on a technical sheet.

Over thirty years, the size of Mendoza's vineyard barely changed. In 1990 the province had 146,709 hectares of vines. In 2021 it had 148,996: an increase of 1.6 per cent, according to Argentina's Instituto Nacional de Vitivinicultura (INV).

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