Wine Law

418 WINE LAW from mountain snowmelt that forms rivers of irregular flow, and their summer floods are caught and stored by reservoirs and other waterworks. Artificial watering makes it easier to provide water to the vineyard in suitable volumes and times, depending on the grapevines’ vegetative condition and the desired quality. Watering is performed by different systems: furrows, mantle, drip, and sprinkler. Argentina’s wine-growing area can be divided into three regions well defined in terms of their environmental conditions and the diversity of their soils: the Northwest, the Center-West and the South 12 . Argentina has the world’s highest vineyards and some of the most southern ones. Combined with its shallow soils and plenty of sunshine, this results in a great diversity of varieties and styles 13 . Red varieties such as Malbec (Argentina’s symbol), Bonarda , Cabernet Sauvignon , Syrah , Merlot , Tempranillo or Pinot Noire are used to produce high-quality wines; of the White varieties, can be mentioned Chardonnay , Pedro Jiménez , Sauvignon , Chenin , Torrontés riojano , Ugni blanc and Semillón ; and Rosé varieties such as Criolla Grande , Cherry and Rosé Muscatel are mostly used for concentrated must production 14 . IV. ENOTOURISM IN ARGENTINA In the late 1990s, the development of tourism activity in wineries became an important subject of interest. This development was encouraged by the fact that the change in the wine industry in those years generated that Argentine wines started to be exported and gain some good reputation. The most important foreign markets for Argentine wine are the United States of America, Canada, Brazil, Chile, the United Kingdom, Spain and Italy. Because of the level of technology that was being used in marketing, consumers were interested in finding out where those wines were being produced, and so winemakers began to live with this type of tourism that came to the wineries on their own to find out where the labels came from and how the winemaking processes were carried out 15 . In this context, most traditional wineries of historical and heritage importance were able to adapt their spaces to meet this rising tourist demand. From 2009 till 2019, the offer in wine tourism has grown so that the services provided in wineries were complemented with other ones in the region, the 12 Pandolfi, C. & Cuello, I., “Reseña de la vitivinicultura argentina”, available in: www.acenologia.com. 13 Source : https://winifera.com/argentina-vitivin%C3%ADcola-44c61c35476f. 14 Pandolfi, C. & Cuello, I., op . cit . 15 Source: https://panamericanworld.com/revista/viajes-y-cultura/enoturismo-tesoro-preciado-del- turismo-en-argentina/.