Uruguayan wine

[6] In 1870, Tannat was introduced to the country by Don Pascual Harriague, a Basque.

[3] Albariño was introduced to Uruguay in 1954 by immigrants from A Coruña, in the Galician region of Spain.

[7] When the Mercosur free trade association started to take shape in the late 1980s, Uruguay took steps to increase the quality of its wines and stepped up its marketing efforts, due to fear of being out-competed by Brazilian wines and Argentine wines, which had lower production costs.

While the country's other forms of agriculture are grouped into cardinal-intercardinal-oriented zones, which are then further divided by departments, there has never been an official grouping of wine regions into the larger zones – based on publications released by the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fish.

[6] Muscat Hamburg is still a common variety for rosé table wines.