ROCK-STAR WINEMAKERS OF ARGENTINA
Five spirited winemakers and winery owners put their hearts and souls into their bottlings to help establish the 21st century as the country’s Golden Era for wine. As you will learn, grapes and wine have been in their blood for decades, in most cases since childhood. Here are their stories.
Karim Mussi
Wine Labels: Altocedro, Abras, Alandes
Principal Zones: La Consulta (Uco Valley), Maipù (Mendoza), Cafayate (Salta)
The Mendoza native behind Altocedro and several other wine labels is, by all accounts, a happy guy who loves what he does. He’s always smiling as he works for the greater good of Argentinean wine.
“I am taken by all expressions of beauty, including art, literature, music and film, but especially music,” says Mussi, as he prepared for the 2021 harvest. “Wine allows me to provide beauty and happiness to a lot of people around the world.”
Mussi is the fourth-generation descendant of Lebanese
