Make wine not war! As tensions heighten in the Falklands, Argentinian vineyard sends grapes to English winemakers...
Make wine not war! As tensions heighten in the Falklands, Argentinian vineyard sends grapes to English winemakers...
Apr 9, 2012
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(Dailymail) - Amid the diplomatic sabre-rattling overshadowing the anniversary of the Falkland’s war, there is one area of Anglo-Argentinian relations we can all raise a glass to.
British and Argentinean vineyards have responded to the crisis by forming a unique collaboration to ‘make wine not war.’
In what even the producers admitted was a ‘madcap’ idea, two tonnes of grapes were transported 7,000 miles from a red wine vineyard on the foothills of the Argentinian Andes to a sparkling white wine producer in the Home Counties.
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