The Vineyard at the End of the World tells the fascinating 400-year story of how the Mecca of wine emerged in the Andean desert.

Profiling the most important figures who fueled the Argentine revolution, including famed winemaker Michel Rolland, acclaimed American winemaker Paul Hobbs, and the Mondavi-style Catena family, Ian Mount describes in colorful detail the backbreaking work, brilliant innovations, and drama behind the scenes that put Argentina on the map.

“The rise of Argentine wine and the unlikely triumph of the humble Malbec (the Seabiscuit of grapes) are one of the great untold stories of globalization.”—Benjamin Wallace, author of The Billionaire's Vinegar

Argentina has produced and consumed oceans of wine for a long time, but it was not particularly good. Oxidized, rustic and often made with a lower-class French grape called Malbec, it could not be sold outside the country's borders. But today, Argentina and its characteristic Malbec are on the tip of every intelligent oenophile's tongue. How did this happen?

“Ian Mount has found an important gap in the current library of wine books: Mendoza and Malbec. The story is fascinating.”—George Taber, author of The Judgment of Paris

Published by W.W. Norton in January 2012.