The best vineyard in the world to visit is located in Mendoza

The modern winery Zuccardi Valle de Uco, built south of the Uco Valley (Mendoza) overlooking the Andes, has been voted Best Vineyard in South America and the World! By the World's Best Vineyards Jury, integrated by 500 international wine and tourism referents, who evaluated aspects such as experience: gastronomy, travel, environment, personal, tourism, price, reputation and accessibility.

"As a family, we put a lot of pbadion into what we do, we are three generations working together for wine," said José Zucardi, director of the vineyard, "Our goal is to give consumers a total experience of what is Uco Valley, through our wines as well as the ingredients we use in our restaurant and even in the terroir, since our winery is entirely built of concrete and local materials, all we do is related to terroir and is an expression of L & # 39; Argentina and more specifically the valley of Uco ".

Bodega Garzón, from Uruguay, ranks second in the world rankings. The other Argentinian wineries in the Top 50 rankings are: Catena Zapata in fifth place, 25th Bodega Colomé, 26th Bodega Salentein and 41st Enemy Wines. In all cases, these are wineries open to the public.

The vineyards that won the regional and world prizes are:

• Best Winery in South America and the World: Zuccardi Valle de Uco (Argentina).
• Best winery in Europe: López de Heredia Viña Tondonia (Spain).
• Best Winery in Oceania and Asia: Rippon (New Zealand).
• Best Winery in North America: Robert Mondavi (USA).
• Best Vineyard in Africa: Vergelegen (South Africa).
• Best Winery in the Middle East: Heritage Castle (Lebanon)

Andrew Reed, founder of Word's Best Vineyards, commented, "Wine is produced in about 60 countries around the world and is very important to many national economies.In the United States alone, 17% of its agents They are dedicated to wine tourism and gastronomy ".