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Argentines consume about 45 litres of wine per person per year. Argentina is the 5th largest wine producer in the world but exports represent only 5%.
Traditionally, Argentinean winemakers have always favoured quantity over quality, and the country consumes nearly 90% of its own production. But the need and desire to increase exports has been the basis for a significant increase in quality, and Argentinean wines began to be exported as early as the 1980s and especially the 1990s. Their reputation is growing strongly.
Currently, Argentina is the first South American producer and the fifth in the world, with more or less 12 million hectoliters produced in 2003. It is the thirteenth largest exporter in the world (in 2005) with a value of 431 million dollars (USD).
There are currently about 212,000 hectares planted with vines in Argentina, of which 8,000 hectares are used for table grapes and raisins. Thanks to the low humidity in most of the regions where vines grow, and also thanks to its cultivation in high valleys, vines are rarely attacked by insects or fungi or other vine diseases, as is the case in other parts of the world. Therefore, little or no use of pesticides is required, resulting in wines of high organic quality, which are increasingly in demand by consumers.