On July 11th, the renowned international consultant on terroir, Pedro Parra, offered a lecture in Mendoza on “How to know and interpret terroirs”. WineSur features an interview conducted prior to the event.
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“Wine bottles are promotional brochures for destination markets”
July 7, 2008 by
Dolores Lavaque, MSc, is the director of STG, the consulting company that was in charge of conducting the study about Wine Tourism Demand and Benchmarking in Argentina, framed by the Argentinian Wine Tourism Consolidation Project IADB/FOMIN and Bodegas de Argentina. In this interview, she approaches the results yielded by this extensive study and describes Argentinian and international wine tourists.
“Argentinian wine has strong competitive advantages”
July 7, 2008 by
Juan José Llach, the Argentinian sociologist and economist who will be a lecturer in the upcoming International Wine Forum, evaluated as positive the future of the local industry, although he emphasized that Argentina needs a systematic reduction program of distortive taxes in order to offset the value of the peso.
“The impact of this crisis is the distrust at destination markets”
June 24, 2008 by
The blow against wine exporters as a result of the agrarian strike will leave long-term wounds. “Year after year, Argentina keeps trying to demonstrate its reliability but this situation forces us to start from scratch once again,” Panighini evaluated.
“London Wine is the opportunity to position wines in the most demanding market in the world”
June 9, 2008 by
The London International Wine Fair 2008, came to an end a couple of weeks ago. Martín Alejo Diez, CEO of Ferias Alimentarias, exclusive official Latin American agent of the exhibition, commented about this 28th edition and the role of Argentinian wineries.
“The natural cork will recover its market share because it adapts well to ecological messages”
June 9, 2008 by
He is the representative for Argentina of the largest cork-producing company in the world. Although alternative closures have stolen terrain from the traditional cork, it is calculated that in a couple of years 75% of bottles will use this natural closure in some way.
“In 2008, wines will be good, different and they will have non-classical aromas”
April 28, 2008 byRaúl Bianchi, currently head of one of Argentina´s traditional wineries, emphasized that this year´s bad weather will result in a slow and late ripening which will produce wines “with different aromas”,but with the same good quality.
“The main concern is to keep growing abroad”
April 28, 2008 byHe manages a large investor group in Argentina, comprised by three wineries: Salentein, Finca El Portillo and Callia (San Juan). In this interview, he claims that the United States is one of the largest profitable foreign markets.
“Argentina is open to different wine styles”
April 25, 2008The Italian investor and owner of Masi Agrícola, one of the largest winemaking companies in Italy, praised the Argentinian wine culture and highlighted that the country does not need to copy styles because it has full potential for creating a new identity.
“The strongest investment will be in production”
April 25, 2008 by
In the next three years, Bodegas Tittarelli and Finca El Retiro (Agro American Group) will invest around 19 million pesos in the relaunching of their brands. The first stage involves the improvement of the quality of their wines, while a second stage will focus on brand and product repositioning. In this interview, Francisco Pannocchia, the company´s Commercial Director, talks about the scope and details of this project.
