Argentina – The new Emerging Market Star

Interview from CNBC…. – click here http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?play=1&video=1567968073

Argentina’s mid-term election: Walloped | The Economist

It looks like sanity is starting to come to Argentinean politics. I just hope we get a chance to take advantage of the ever decreasing peso before the power shift is complete! Argentina’s mid-term election: Walloped | The Economist Shared via AddThis

Trucking along

Well, there’s not too much to report with our vineyard…we’re at the point now where we’re just letting things grow! We are now definitely introducing seed potatoes, garlic, and onions into our land to get some immediate cash flow while we’re waiting for the vineyards to bear fruit. We’re also definitely going to be putting [...]

Good News!

Numbers are in for all Argentinean wine exports for the first couple months of 2009. And the news is mostly bad…with the extremely notable exception of…glass-bottled wine, largely driven by demand from the United States. Check out an article on the report here. These are nice numbers to affirm what we’ve been saying for the [...]

From Rags to Grapes

Some of you may still not be convinced that Argentinean wine is the best investment right now. This article would be for you.

Trade shows

It’s been a busy time promoting the project for us in the last couple weeks! First we were at WineFest in Calgary, and now we were just at the Financial Forum in Vancouver. Interest has been high, we’re happy to say. As you might imagine, the atmosphere between the two events couldn’t have been more [...]

Vines of Mendoza in Newsweek.

One of the people I visited with when I was in Mendoza was Michael Evans, one of the founders of the “Vines of Mendoza”. In a way, this is what we want to be when we grow up. Incidentally, an article was published in Newsweek while I was there. You can find it here. Their [...]

Wines, vines, credit and a good natured shrug.

It’s a wacky world in Argentina, and specifically Mendoza is even more surreal. While the rest of the world is circling the rim, Mendoza’s wine exports are up, and thanks to a mendacious, spendthrift government, winemaker’s costs are up, but their profits are up even more, because they get paid in dollars. Expenses in pesos, [...]

Argentina and the IMF

The Argentinean government earned a poor reputation with most of the world when if defaulted on $106B worth of bonds in 2002, much of it owing to the IMF. In December of 2005 the government repaid the IMF and presented their other debtors with a take-it-or-leave-it settlement that only paid pennies on the dollar. Many [...]