How Argentina Turns Grapes Into Malbec

Argentina has close to 47,000 hectares of Malbec — about a quarter of its vineyards, mostly in Mendoza — and in 2024 exported around 1.3 million hectoliters of it, worth more than $400 million. We follow the grape from high-desert vineyards and Andean snowmelt to the harvest, the winery, oak barrels, the bottling line and the ports. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 1:08 A French grape in Argentina 2:23 Stage 1 · The vineyard 4:21 Stage 2 · Water 5:29 Frost, hail and the zonda 6:23 Stage 3 · The harvest 7:38 Stage 4 · The winery 9:02 Stage 5 · Aging & blending 10:08 Stage 6 · Bottling 11:10 Stage 7 · Export 12:26 What comes next 13:25 One system SOURCES • Instituto Nacional de Vitivinicultura (INV) — vineyard area and export data • Bolsa de Comercio de Mendoza — Malbec reports • Malbec World Day (April 17) Figures are rounded and may be revised by the sources. CREDITS Narration: synthetic voice. Video: Pexels (Pexels License) — clip IDs: 3585789, 4112833, 5210323, 5537821, 5537827, 5739716, 5961965, 6356806, 6356810, 6739347, 6761266, 6895108, 6948936, 7339495, 7495999, 7686955, 7686958, 7687088, 8325891, 8467118, 8720278, 8764328, 8764587, 8764789, 9947670, 9947672, 9977269, 9977292, 10040032, 10040035, 10163756, 10615247, 12601701, 13638510, 15187012, 15574391, 15909395, 17100157, 17149133, 18749847, 19826636, 19907856, 26893759, 27109637, 27382911, 28650479, 29202136, 30117395, 30183203, 30731215, 31750578, 31853712, 32312998, 32390622, 32610885, 32747083, 32904275, 32904723, 32904735, 32918664, 32920452, 34543000, 34543011, 35149891, 35258748, 35488888, 35514465, 35514466, 35742076, 36111065, 36903666, 36906906, 36946493, 37296000, 37382822, 37382824, 38155230, 38503943, 38806069, 39447081. Music and sound effects: Adobe Stock (licensed). Footage is generic and illustrative: it does not show any specific winery, vineyard, label or brand. MADE ACROSS EARTH — How the world makes everything. Subscribe for the next supply chain.