Intense, challenging and thought-inducing, harvest 2020 will be very remembered by the team of ants and by the entire wine community in Mendoza.  This harvest has...

During the month of January, there were two important heat waves, that led us to determine in a hurry the dates of harvest, to avoid...

The day begins; harvest season is in full swing. The sun and the moon meet under the same sky, one rising in splendour from the...

On Monday Sept. 18th, 2017, after six years of struggle against all odds, we started planting vines in our Jardín Altamira estate. Turning a wild...

In 1997, 20 years ago, we made the first vintage of our Malbec Reserve. This vintage appeared under the name “Altos de Medrano Reserva Viña...

Planting a vineyard is a leap of faith, a bet that a financial analyst would never approve; more so in today Argentina, with planting costs...

All in all we can declare ourselves happy with the 2017 vintage, after a 2016 that was arguably 50% short in quantities of fine varieties...

Altos las Hormigas Malbec Clásico is our most established wine and it was along with the Reserve, the first wine that we made, arguably a benchmark...

Water is life, and more so in Mendoza. And finally the well has spilled the precious water in our Altamira estate, the Uco Valley property...

Texts by Leonardo Erazo - Winemaker at Altos Las Hormigas In the wine world some years are remembered way more than others, 2016 in Mendoza will definitely...

The 2016 Harvest will be remembered due to its challenges.  An atypical rainy year in Mendoza, thanks to the whimsical “El Niño” current that has put...

Back in our Altamira estate, to check out what happened after Francisco “El Gorrión” found the best location to extract the underground water. The digging...

See those little red bins? You might recognize them from the previous post celebrating the harvest of Dyonisos Vineyard. These are the bins we affectionately...

Despite the million tiny details that run through the mind of agronomist Mauricio Gonzalez and his team during harvest, there is one in particular that...

How cool is it to plant a new vineyard in a virgin, previously untouched site? Where in the world can you be part of such...

There is something hopeful and satisfying about budbreak. Vitality returns to the vineyards and with a tiny speck of green, the master wheels are turning...

The technical team at Altos Las Hormigas is constantly tasting; comparative tastings, vertical tastings, blind tasting... they all help define our vision and goals. The...

"Como no entendemos NADA ! Lo queremos saber TODO! Calicatas y mas calicatas!" "We do not understand anything! We want to know everything! Pits and more...

When it's time for harvest, it's time! Saturday is family day, everyone helps in the making of our Single Vineyard wines... even the little ants. The...

El 22 marzo, los periodistas y sommeliers de Buenos Aires y Santiago siguieron Pedro Parra y las Hormigas para una día FULL TERROIR. On March 22nd, the top journalists and sommeliers from Buenos Aires...

Today we harvest Vista Flores, a region tucked directly below the Andes in the Uco Valley. Contrary to the warm, red and orange landscape of the...

Update from Leonardo Erazo, Enologist: "The arrival of our first potential Single Vineyard of the harvest 2012! Trucks carefully arrive, all in line, disciplined and orderly like ants...

Along the Altos Las Hormigas journey we have seen vineyards that seemed to have all the perfect characteristics: climate, altitude, vine age, care, balanced canopies...

Atardecer en Chacayes. Un día completo. Lindo. Agradable...

There are crucial decisions to be made just prior to veraison, as this is the time where the viticultural team has an opportunity to reduce...

This might seem like an unglamorous topic... perhaps a bit, geeky? However, irrigation is the lifeline of your vineyards. In some regions it simply is...

About 40-80 days after bud break, just following flowering, we start to see fruit set. This is our first glimpse of the fertilized flowers that...

The vine begins the process of bud break and the first sign of green in the vineyard emerges. Every viticulturist waits for this moment. The...