Wine & Wine Shops

Have a look at our new Malbec label.  Nice!

 Algodon wines sold well in Buenos Aires in 2009, and we think 2010 will be even better.  Many of the city’s high-end wine shops, who just recently began carrying our wines, have already made second or third orders of our wine for their inventory.  Algodon Wine Estates 2009 & 2010 harvests were impressive to say the least, and with our wine panel’s expertise, I believe we are going to see some incredible results. 

Algodon Wine Estates Extra Virgin Olive Oil is now available in one of these wine shops, and we’re working hard to get them on the shelves of the rest of them very soon, as well.

-Scott L. Mathis

Algodon Wine and Olive Oil

A list of retail locations detailing where you can purchase Algodon Wine is now available on our Algodon Wine website, and I will post it here as well.

We are also now officially selling our award-winning Algodon Extra Virgin Olive Oil at Algodon Wine Estates.  Here is a photo of the new bottles.  

They look great!

Our wine importer also just sold another 100 cases (that’s about 1,000 bottles) of Algodon Wine to a distributor in Texas!  Congratulations, Jomada!

-Scott L. Mathis

Tennis Anyone?

Lots of media news: Algodon Wine Estates’ “Migration Package” is featured in the November issue of Travel+Leisure Magazine! Their circulation is 957,987! Incredible! We’re also featured here on EliteTraveler.com! Elite Traveler has 649,000 readers per issue in over 100 countries, with an average household income of $5.3 million. Now that is “elite”! Lastly, Forbes Woman Magazine is promoting this special package for us in their publication. Their ad directs readers to our website for a 20% discount and will appear in the December issue of their magazine.

Construction on the mansion is furiously wrapping up to meet our Grand Opening goal date. Algodon Mansion’s General Manager, Pablo Veloso, tells me that the staffing recruitment for the hotel continues and that in just a few weeks the entire staff will be hired and trained. There will be an intensive and thorough 2-week training course for these new employees before any of our guests arrive.

Here’s a recent photo of the tennis center’s progress at Algodon Wine Estates. The photo shows our hardworking maintenance staff as they tend to the huge expanse of the clay courts. The clay court area is so large that our photographer couldn’t fit it all into the frame. It looks fantastic!

As I’m sure many of you have been reading, Argentina is currently in legislation to settle $20 billion of its outstanding bond disputes. This is great news for their economy in my opinion; a successful renegotiation with holders of defaulted debt should create access to international capital markets for the first time since 2001, and will open the door to foreign investment.

Look out- even Wal-Mart is getting into the action of Argentine investments!

Here is an excellent Washing Post article about Nicolás Catena, an Argentine visionary who saw Argentina's potential to produce fine wine. The article dubs him “Argentina’s Ambassador of Wine.” Catena’s is credited as the “founding father of modern Argentine wine”, and as being responsible for having launched Argentina’s wine boom. His significant role in the wine world is further evidenced by Decanter wine magazine’s honoring him as Man of the Year for 2009.

Here’s some very interesting olive oil news; evidently it has just been determined that it may play a factor in preventing Alzheimer’s. Algodon’s gold-medal-winning Extra Virgin Olive Oil isn’t just delicious; it’s also good for you!

One final thought; did you know that the average Argentine eats approximately 163 lbs. of beef every year? That comes out to approximately two McDonald’s Quarter Pounders every day, all year long.

--Scott Mathis

Algodon Wine Sales, Our Neighbors, and a Gold Medal!

Our Chicago area wines sales are looking good. This week I spoke to our Midwest distributer, Jomada Imports, and was told that we’re selling on average 150 cases (12 pack) of Algodon wines on a monthly basis…that’s 1,800 bottles a month. That’s a nice start considering that Algodon Wines are new to the US market and its consumers. Keep up the good work Jomada!

Our neighbor next door to the Algodon Mansion recently finished some exterior construction. It looks good and is a big improvement on what was there previously.

Big olive oil news! Diego Coll Benegas, Algodon Wine Estates’ Director of Project Development, Tourism & Hospitality, just emailed me to say that Algodon Olive Oil won the gold medal in a national competition hosted in Buenos Aires this week. Our gold medal was for the “blended” category. That’s exciting news. I’ve had the olive oil myself, and I have to say that a gold medal comes as no surprise to me. I guess we’ll have to reprint our olive oil’s bottle labels to include: “Argentine judges agree: Algodon Extra Virgin Olive Oil is the best!” We will be serving Algodon Olive Oil at Algodon Mansion.

--Scott Mathis