Bodega El-Bayeh

Bodega El Bayeh is situated high in the Quebrada de Humahuaca, a valley in northwestern Argentina which historically was the main route between the lowlands and the Andes highlands on the way to Upper Peru, now Bolivia. An historically and culturally important area, it is also naturally beautiful and was granted Unesco World Heritage site status in 2003. Boutrus Manzur El Bayeh emigrated here in 1925, from Lebanon. Pedro, one of his seven children, began a fruit and vegetable business, coincidentally or by design as the name El Bayeh means ‘fresh fruit merchant’. He began purchasing vineyards, but it was 2019 before the third generation evolved this into a winemaking venture rather than a grape selling project, in consultation with Matías Michelini, a leading winemaker from Mendoza.