April is Malbec Month, which also celebrates the hugely successful global initiative World Day (MWD) hosted on 17 April, coordinated by Wines of Argentina (WofA).
In Argentina's Valle de Uco wine region, at the foot of the Andes, frantic picking is under way to try and save what remains of what is predicted to be the worst grape harvest in decades.
The Government of Argentina announced during the weekend the creation of yet another foreign currency exchange rate; one to be applied particularly to wine exports, effective next month.