Grape variety whose main use is for the production of red wine
The concept of Malbec called a grape variety that comes from the southwest of France and whose main use is for the production of red wine. Case it is the term is used so widely to refer precisely to a kind of red wine. When in the wine industry or in a table at the behest of a dinner speaking of Malbec, it is known that it is referring to a wine that is made with the malbec grape.
French origin
In the former province of Quercy, Monsieur Malbeck producer, who obviously took the name, was the variety after crossing two species of grapes.
The wine, the most popular drink in the world. France and Argentina Nations pioneering in its production
Wine is undoubtedly the most popular world's drink, while in some countries as well as their consumption, there is a huge industry that is engaged in the production, mentioned to France and we can not ignore to the Argentina, another big producing country, which is the first to produce the drink in Latin America, and in the special case of malbec the Argentina has also had a role given that in the 19th century, when Domingo Faustino Sarmiento was Governor of the Argentine Province of San Juan, himself in person managed the wine production in the province and for this malbec imported grape malbec from France.
Sarmiento the great forerunner of its production in Argentina
French Michel Aimé Pouget, who was an expert in soil, took up the project of Sarmiento of improving the production of wine in the country and then took care of the developed of the Malbec. Even Argentina, finished by beating France in the production of this variety of red wines. Today, the Malbec is the varietal super star of the Argentina and there are thousands and thousands of hectares dedicated to its production. Around the world, including France, his native country, praised the development of Argentina. On April 17 he has established as the world day of the Malbec. Took that day because it was precisely on that day, in the year 1853, that then Governor Sarmiento tasked mentioned Pouget.