Vineyards below the snow-capped Andes in Mendoza — the high-altitude desert that made Argentine Malbec famous. Via Wikimedia Commons.By the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team✓ Researched, fact-checked & verifiedAugust 20267 min readArgentina […]
April 14 1789: Tiburcio Tapia was born. Tapia set up the first winery in California and the second oldest winery in the United States. Before venturing into the wine business, Tapia served as a […]
January 3, 1862: On this day in 1862 Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, who would later serve as the seventh president of Argentina between 1868 and 1874, entered office as governor of San Juan province in […]
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