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As wine beverage connoisseurs know, Argentine wine beverage was once famously bad. The grapes were overwatered, harvested in brutal heating, fermented in great cement private pools, aged in antiquated oak vats, and then watered down and adulterated. The final product was professional plonk, drinkable only on ice. But in 2001, a Cabernet Sauvignon / Malbec mixture do better than Napa and Bordeaux's finest in a blind taste test. Suddenly, Argentina emerged as a leading wine beverage region with a champion varietal - what best-selling writer Benjamin Wallace phone calls "the humble Malbec". How does this happen? Ian Mount's brilliant voyage through Argentina's Outdoors Western world explores the alchemy of weather, earth, and viticulture techniques that, on uncommon occasions, produce a legendary wine. He also investigates the dynamics of taste, status, and money that turned Malbec into an internationally trend. Profiling the larger-than-life results who fueled the Malbec trend - including star oenologist Michel Rolland, acclaimed American winemaker Paul Hobbs, and the Mondavi-esque Catena family - Support describes in colourful detail the excellent enhancements and backroom politics that put Malbec on the map. Placed up against the breathtaking backdrop of the snow-capped Andes and Mendoza's sweeping plains, The Vineyard at the End of the World tells the exciting 400-year history of how a wine beverage mecca arose in the Argentine desert. It is at once a sumptuous travel narrative, a riveting history of a remarkable region, and an intriguing business story where a small group of excited vintners remade their world.
