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Mendoza
Mendoza is the name of Argentina's leading wine province and of its capital city, founded in 1561; both were named for Don García Hurtado de Mendoza, a sixteenth-century Chilean governor, from the era when Mendoza belonged to the Captaincy of Chile.
Huddled in the high desert foothills of the Andes, the province covers more than 36 million acres — at over 57,000 square miles it is about the size of New York State — though less than 5 percent of its surface is planted with vines.
Mendoza is more than the leading wine region: it is the heartbeat of the Argentine wine industry.
Key grapes
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Chardonnay
- Malbec
- climate
- high-desert — extremely dry, intense 'sunlight density', mild temperatures thanks to altitude
- elevation
- 4,000 ft (1,200 m) and above — the highest in Argentina
- signature
- soft, rich, palate-coating malbec — the opposite of Cahors' hard, sleek, tannic côt
- scale
- ~1,000 of Argentina's ~1,400 wineries; <5% of the province is planted to vine
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