Argentina has never had a strong wine tradition in the world and its wines were sold, until a few years ago, only on the domestic market. The history Altos Las Hormigas began in 1995, when the Italian Alberto Antonini, winemaker at the famous Florentine company Antinori, has taken up the land potential of the Mendoza region, Argentina's important city at the foot of the Andes.
Malbec was imported to Argentina by French Michel Pouget in the mid-nineteenth century, but had always been considered a minor wine, used almost exclusively as a blending wine to the end of the last century. Alberto Antonini and the entrepreneur Antonio Marescalchi buy 216 hectares of land in the district of Carrizal da Abajo, in the Lujan de Cuyo region, near Mendoza.
Thus began the long challenge of the two Italians to turn Malbec from a wine without merit into a noble wine demanded around the world. Over the years, the Altos team was enhanced by co-workers, the majority of Italian origin, and since 2000 has joined an Argentine person, Carlos Vazquez, an expert winemaker; from the beginning hre has assisted Altos in the activity in the vineyard and it can be said without fear of contradiction that the challenge was won: the Argentine Malbec is a delicious and intriguing wine with fruity and floral scents, a must try.