In America , the culture of the grapevine did not exist until the arrival of the Spaniards. Cristóbal Columbus (1451-1506), when it makes his second travels, in 1493, to a year of the discovery of the American continent, introduced the first varieties in the Antilles (Central America), but because of the climate of the Caribbean region, these species did not manage to fructify.

In 1543 the grapevine had arrived at the city of Jumps , from the Peru Stop, where the first grapes were engaged in. Later, with time, the grapes found their better establishment in the city of Cafayate .

In the city of Santiago of the Matting vines in 1556 arrived approximately. There the grapevine culture progressed really, and for 1557 the jesuitas had made the first plantations of certain importance in the territory.

When cities like Mendoza are based, in 1561, and San Juan , in 1562, they were strategically important points by where entered vines from Chile the Region of Whose, to scatter itself soon by all the territory.

In 1598 in the province of Missions also the vitivinicultura of the time bloomed, and in smaller amount it took place in the provinces of Cordoba, Santa Fé and Buenos Aires .

In Argentina , like in several countries of Latin America , the expansion of the harvests of vineyards is related closely to the diffusion of the Christianity, mainly because the clergy needed the wine doubtlessly to be able to celebrate the mass.

In 1853 the sanjuanino Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888), who was governor of Whose ( Mendoza ? San Juan ), would contract French Aimé Pouget, who was in charge to reproduce the first stocks of French variety, among them the recognized Malbec, that stops several enólogos, sumilleres and specialists on the grapevine have adapted in this zone better than in any other part of the world. This must to the particular orography and composition of grounds of the province of Mendoza, accompanied by the majestic Mountain range of the $andes, by where water defrostings take place pure and crystalline which they form the rivers that descend zigzagging in direction this, from high Andean summits.

In 1916 above to the Region the Northwest (Salta- The Rioja - Catamarca), the Tunisian Jose Alazraqui with ample experience in vitivinicultura developed in French territory, that jointly promotes with Miguel Urtado the sprouting of regional grape growing.

In 1919, after World War I (1914-1918), the Argentine wines acquired quality, and the stocks brought from France , Italy and Spain gave to excellent results in a ground and climate that, without a doubt, were ideal for the culture of the grapevine.

For 1960, in the Argentina there were 242.324 hectares of planted vineyards and registered an annual consumption of 90 liters for person a year. However the almost entirety of this wine was considered common, of regular quality.

In the years sixty, soon after tax desgravaciones and technological changes, vineyards were implanted cultivated in arbor with grape of high yield and low ecological quality. This way, the surface climbed to a total of 350.680 hectares in 1977. and I joust when the production reached historical récords, the consumption of wine it began to shrink.

From 1979 to 1984, the consumption hardly reached the 21 million hectolitros, being the permanent surplus of wines of an average of 40 million hectolitros after the crop, what was cause of big crisis in the sector.

However, starting from 1982, with new regulations and the decrease of the vineyards for abandonment due to their lack of profitability, the sector was guided toward its normalization.

In 1987, the surface of the vineyards had descended to 274.705 hectares , and it could not still be spoken of wines of quality. Chile , on the other hand, it had already begun their sale campaigns in the exterior based on a wine of quality to moderate price.

For then, in the Argentina, the idea of to export and to compete internationally existed in the mentality of few managers and the participation in the international fairs it was quite discreet, with less than 20 resolved cellars to attempt the fight.

Starting from April of 1991 the frontiers give the Argentina they opened up for the producers, and when in 1992 you began to care capital goods with tariff zero, some cellars began their modernization.

This stage was characterized by the import of stainless steel to replace the concrete piletas; the use of oak casks manufactured in France (90%) or United States (10%); and the purchase of new lines of having bottled and labeled, mainly from Italy .

At the same time, the exchanges of professionals as enologists or agricultural engineers with different countries vitivinícolas of the world began to generate a conscience of to be modernized and to adapt the offer of wines.

That necessity was being also proven along different fairs, as the most important of all, the Vinexpo that is carried out every two years in Bordeaux and where the best Argentinean wines began to win prizes and being news.

In the last times, and in spite of the difficult economic situation of the country, the sector Argentinean vitivinícola in its entirety, from the agricultural base until the final consumer, comes experiencing such an explosive development as positive in all the aspects: technician, commercial, productive, of diffusion and of knowledge, so much domestic as international.

Since then, the Argentine wines begin to be present in restaurants and vinotecas located in cities like New York , London , Paris and Madrid . The Argentine cepajes acquire own personality because of the excellent climate and ground, among other factors where it cultivates them.
In addition, the warehouses installed in the country acquire international reputation and many of them appear in contests and international fairs, receiving lauros and outstanding prizes.

Finally it begins to grow the export, arriving Argentine fine wines at countries like Great Britain , France , Spain , Italy , Sweden , Norway , Denmark , Germany , Portugal , Turkey , the United States and Canada , among others. When lacking some warehouses own resources to obtain an effective expansion in the new markets, stimulated the alliances with foreign financial groups that discover in the industry of the wine an effective source of yield.