Exploring the Edge of Possibility

Digging into the terroir of the world’s southernmost winery and vineyard

Wine Spectator senior editor Aaron Romano
Senior editor Aaron Romano tasted three of Otronia’s Patagonia wines from the 2019, 2020 and 2021 vintages, some of the world’s most extreme climate wines to ever be produced. (Rick Wenner)

Take the image you have of grapegrowing in Argentina, with the dramatic Andes as the backdrop, and move it 1,200 miles south of Mendoza. Making wine is even more extreme here in Argentina’s extreme Patagonia climate at Otronia, the world’s southernmost winery and vineyard. Learn more about the wines produced here and what they taste like with senior editor and lead taster for Argentina, Aaron Romano.

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