Like France and other traditional wine-producing countries, Argentina makes every day table wines of different types of qualities. Its more interesting wines are comparable in quality to some of the better wines of Tuscany, Bordeaux or the Rhone Valley.
Argentine reds are matures and ready to drink when bottled.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, wine growers from Italy, France and Spain immigrated to Argentina after their home wine yards were devastated by the phylloxera plant louse. These settlers brought with them a vast selection of grape wine from many Europeans regions, planting them side by side in the province of Mendoza and Salta. They began producing wine according to their individual knowledge and traditions. Therefore Argentine wines today may vary in style in accordance with the region and the origin of the wine grower's family. With approximately 700.000 acres of wine yards extending from north to south for 1.100 miles, Argentina is the world's fifth largest wine producer.