Peru

Surrounded by sand dunes and palm trees, Peru’s wine region doesn’t offer your usual vineyard vista. The region is renowned for geogylphs, sand boarding, dune buggies and Quebranta grapes. While Peru is certainly an oddball with regard to South American wine production, it is …

While South America’s wine production is dominated by the bigger countries in the leggy Southern Cone of the continent, it was actually in the middle – in Peru – where wine production started. When the Spanish conquered the great Incan empire, they brought their …