The province of Neuquén constitutes one of the regions vitivinícolas of the Argentina with characteristic ecological own that allow him to produce wines with aptitudes different from the rest of the counties. One of the most southern areas in the world of production of grapes constitutes for vinificar and it is relatively new in the elaboration of fine wines.

The area producer is located in the department of Fork, to the beginning of the valley that continues in Black River . Their climate is continental, temperate dry, with a remarkable thermal width and an annual half temperature of 15 centigrade grades.

The main restrictive factor for the cultivation of the vine constitutes it the late and early freezes that harm especially to the varieties of long vegetative cycle.

In the year 2000 had 179 planted hectares, but strong investments deprived in two emprendimientos they will only allow to overcome the 1.000 hectares planted in the area of San Patricio of The Chañar quickly.

The wines of this area are characterized to present a bigger acidity content. The grapes better adapted to the cold climate and of great thermal width, just as it happens in the vineyards rionegrinos, they are here the pinot noir, the merlot or the sauvignon blanc, the chardonnay and the riesling.

For the specialists, the fact of promoting the name of the Patagonia and of the Argentinean South it can grant commercial advantages in front of a world that looks for original wines, and opens interesting possibilities for the wines of Neuquén, as well as for those of the neighbor Black River.

The wine elaborated for other markets with a different palate you generalized in the Argentina , causing changes in turn in the Argentinean palate. To take a wine tints of one or two years it is at the moment possible while one decade ago it was unthinkable.

This phenomenon that is world, should be accompanied by the consumer's education, because the wine is a product that lives and that according to its composition it reaches its best flavor after certain time.

Not all the wines are same and some deserve the wait of two, three or more years before being taken.