Argentina’s 9th Annual Wine Fair Opens Tuesday in BA

By Fiorella Donayre

The ninth annual “Vinos y Bodegas” wine exposition opens at La Rural Tuesday, bringing together big name local wine producers and boutique vineyards for three nights under one roof to showcase the 2009 harvest.

Among activities, there will be cooking demonstrations and live music shows. The supermarket Jumbo will also be selling 100 different labels at a 35% discount.

The trade promotion group ExportAr will also hold a roundtable to put Argentine producers in touch with foreign importers (Click here for more info about this.)

This year’s grape harvest dropped 24 percent from last year, as cold weather in the Argentine Fall of 2008 damaged plants. The slide may lead Argentina to import cheap wine from Chile to meet large domestic demand for everyday table wines that cost around five pesos per bottle, according to this article in the Argentine business newspaper El Cronista.

Argentina last imported Chilean wine in 1993 after hail and cold weather during the previous year damaged vines.

While weather hurt this year’s grape production, exports of bottled wines to the U.S., Argentina’s top market, jumped 39 percent to 25 million liters during the first half of this year, according to the USDA.

Event Details:

When: 6pm to 11pm daily.
Where: Pedestrian entrance:  Av. Santa Fe 4201.
Parking entrance: Av. Sarmiento 2704 and Cervino 4476
Cost:  60 Pesos

For more information: www.expovinosybodegas.com.ar

*Fiorella Donayre is a Peruvian lawyer who moved to Buenos Aires in 2004. She completed the professional chef’s program at Mausi Sebess in 2006 and has worked as a pasante at the Caesar Park Hotel’s Agraz restaurante in Recoleta and at El Señorio de Sulco in Lima. She can be reached at: fiorella (AT) argentinepost.com

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