“I was born in Tupungato, Argentina, a traditional town in the Mendoza region at the foot of the Andes, where wines have been made since the arrival of the first European immigrants in the nineteenth century. Growing up, I remember annual grape harvests, when the streets were filled with fruit from the vines, and there was a smell of fermentation in the air. The vines grew everywhere, and as children we ate grapes of every colour for days.
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