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| Award Organization | Award Year | Result |
| International Wine & Spirit Competition | 2010 | Bronze |
Cabernet Sauvignon (often shortened to 'Cab Sav' or even just 'Cab') is probably the most famous red wine grape variety on Earth. It is rivaled in this regard only by its Bordeaux stablemate Merlot, and its opposite number in Burgundy, Pinot Noir. The product of a natural crossing of key Bordeaux grape varieties Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc, Cabernet Sauvignon's DNA was profiled only as recently as 1997, by researchers in California. Most wine authorities agree that the crossing happened only in the past few centuries, making the variety's current fame all the more impressive. From its origins around the Medoc, the vine h ... more
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San Juan wine region
San Juan is an important Argentinian wine-producing area. Originally a prolific producer of high-yielding pink grape varieties (e.g. Cereza), whose high sugar content made them ideal for blending, San Juan is now producing wines of increasing quality using traditional European grape varieties.
In terms of production, San Juan is Argentina's second-largest wine region, with about half of its agricultural land devoted to vineyards. The most important area of production is the Tulum Valley.
Like Mendoza just to the south, the San Juan region is predominantly semi-desert, and its viticulture is dependent on irrigation from the San Juan and Jachal rivers. Because they are at the mercy of a very dry continental cli ... more
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Cuyo wine region
Cuyo is a large administrative and economic region in the central-west of Argentina. While it is not a wine region itself, it does neatly encompass the country's most proilfic wine-producing areas: Mendoza and San Juan. For viticultural purposes, the La Rioja region is often included as part of Cuyo.
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