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Grape variety whose main use is the production of red wine

The concept of Malbec names a variety of grape that comes from the south-west of France and whose main use is the elaboration of red wine. For example, the term is widely used to refer precisely to a kind of red wine.
When in the wine industry or at a table at the behest of a dinner Malbec is spoken of, it is known that it is referring to a red wine made from the Malbec grape.

French origin

In ancient Province de Quercy, the producer Monsieur Malbeck, from whom it obviously took its name, the variety was achieved after crossing two species of grapes.

Wine, the most popular drink in the world. France and Argentina pioneer nations in its production

Wine is undoubtedly the most popular drink in the world, while in some countries in addition to its consumption there is a huge industry dedicated to production, we already mentioned France and we cannot ignore Argentina, another great country producer, who is the first to produce the drink in

Latin America, and in the special case of Malbec, Argentina has also played a leading role since in the 19th century, when Domingo Faustino Sarmiento was Governor of the Argentine province of San Juan, he himself managed the production of Malbec wine in the province and for this he imported Malbec grapes from France.

Sarmiento the great precursor of its elaboration in Argentina

Frenchman Michel Aimé Pouget, who was an expert in I usually, I take the draft de Sarmiento to improve the country's wine production and then he dealt with the development of Malbec. Even Argentina, ended up surpassing France in the production of this variety of red wines. Today, Malbec is the super star varietal of Argentina and there are thousands and thousands of hectares dedicated to its production. The whole world, including France, his native country, praise the elaboration of Argentina.

April 17 has been established as the world day of Malbec. It was taken that day because it was precisely on that day, in the year 1853, that the then Governor Sarmiento entrusted the homework mentioned to Pouget.

Themes in Malbec