Uruguay. Bodegas Garzón, recognized with the Best Winery in the World 2018 award, enjoy an ideal geographical location to give their wines personality and character. A few kilometers from Pueblo Garzón and close to the ocean, the soil of the vineyard was built on more than a thousand plots on ballast rock, an alteration of the granite stone, so the vineyards have a balanced component of minerals.
The care of the environment is key in the design of the establishment, made on natural terraces 160 meters above sea level, which allows the use of the gravity system for drainage in the vineyards, which also use organic methods and techniques. In turn, the efficiency of the facilities, which have native flora plantation on their roofs and certified wood, allows optimizing resources and at the same time generating wind and photovoltaic energy.
The Garzón building has more than 19,000 square meters and was built following the rigorous requirements of the United States Green Building Council, becoming the first sustainable winery outside North America with LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) certification. Its owners, the Argentine businessman Alejando Bulgheroni and his wife Bettina, invested 85 million dollars in the establishment, which was already positioned as the number one in exports the same year of its inauguration, in 2016.
Wine Enthusiast is the leading publication in the sector, with more than one million readers in its online version and 800,000 in the written one. Bodegas Garzón was the winner of the Best Winery in the World Award 2018 after unseating the other four nominees in the category, prestigious companies from Canada (Cave Spring Cellars), New Zealand (Felton Road), South Africa (L'Avenir) and Argentina (Trapiche).
With a perfect complexity, freshness and acidity, characteristics granted by the temperate climate of the area that allow an ideal ripening of the pulp, seed and peel of the fruit, Bodegas Garzón achieves unique products faithful to its terroir.
