Located in the north part of the Patagonia , Río Negro is the fourth region in importance inside the production Argentinean vitivinícola, with a planted surface of 2.544 hectares of vineyards. The climate of the area is dry, with summers of hot days and very fresh nights.

The vineyards are to only 250 meters about the level of the sea and the biggest risk that face the they constitute the freezes.

The area producer of this region is at 39° of south latitude, in an extensive valley that is born to the feet of the Mountain range of the Andes and extends among the rivers Neuquén and Limay, in the department of General Rock, in what calls you the High Valley of Río Negro. A little below along the river the Half Valley appears whose center is Choele Choel. A third area, smaller, is to the east and below still ( 60 meters on the level of the sea): the Half Valley of the River Colorado.

The history of the vitivinicultura in the High Valley of Río Negro was born at the end of the XIX century when the first experiences began together with the agricultural colonization begun soon after from the Campaign to the Desert of 1879.

In 1913, the engineer Humberto Canale the cellar that takes its name was founded. In the decade of the 20, the sector acquired certain importance and they settled cellars in several places of the High Valley . In the years 50, the regional vitivinicultura expanded until reaching importance at national level, but it was a quantitative and not qualitative growth because vineyards were planted that gave many kilos of grape but of low quality enológica, the same as in the region of Whose.

At the beginning of the decade of the 70, the surface of planted vine was of 18.000 hectares , with a production of 160 million kilos and a participation in the national total of 6,5 percent, but had not taken into account that the climate was not favorable to those grape plantations common with high production

On the other hand, the region has a significant thermal width that arrives up to the 20° and it favors the evolution of the vineyards, with intense and brilliant colors in its wines.

The wines of Río Negro are the typical of the cold areas, of very defined, nicely characteristic aromas.

The natural "terroir" offers an ideal habitat for varietales tintos like the merlot, the pinot noir and the malbec. Among the targets they stand out the semillón and the sauvignon.

An important differential factor of the presence of the vineyards in the. it fences it is the protection that the forest curtains toast with regard to the violent winds patagónicos.

The technology, the knowledge of the international markets, the study deep and systematic crop after crop of the evolution of the wines, the measured use of the wood and an adjusted control of the quality and production of the vineyards made possible to this region to present noble wines and of great acceptance so much in the Argentinean market as in the European.

The later successive eradications of vineyards took to the current situation, where Río Negro has a participation of only 1,5% in the Argentinean total surface. However, the quality has been privileged in the grapes for fine wine and in this area a very interesting climate exists for the merlot, the pinot noir or the sauvignon blanc and the chardonnay, with concrete possibilities for the province of differing of the other regions producers of the Argentina .