Argentina - The Growing Environment & Grape Growing
3 important questions on Argentina - The Growing Environment & Grape Growing
What is the latitude of Argentina?
- This is low; 24-38S, 1500km from Salta to Rio Negro in the south.
- Chile is 30-38S
How much vineyards ha does Argentina have? Describe the soils in Argentina?
- 200.000ha under vine / 30% over 40 years old.
- Soils are mostly alluvial as deposited by the rivers from the Andes:
- Higher up: alluvial with larger stones and calcareous deposits, these poor soils are optimal for low yielding vines and high quality viticulture
- middle areas: gravel sands and silts
- Low: loamy-clay soils, richer in nutriens.
- Calcareous soils in: Gualtallary and Paraje Altamira in Uco Valley. In Pedernal Valley in San Juan.
Viticulture is modernised in Argentina, by whom and how?
Nicolas Catena, on Malbec;
- clonal selection
- different soils
- picking grapes at different ripeness
- planting higher up on the mountains, and further south closer to the Atlantic Ocean.
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