Malbec Facts on World Malbec Day

World Malbec Day is celebrated on April 17, to commemorate the day when president Domingo Faustino Sarmiento of Argentina officially made it his mission to transform Argentina's wine industry. On that day, back in 1853, he tasked Michel Aimé Pouget, a French soil expert, to bring over new vines. Among the vines he brought was Malbec.  Today Argentina is known for their Malbec.

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