What Nature Gives You — Sidra Pülku in Río Negro, Argentina
To find out, I’m traveling to Villa Regina, population 40,000, to meet two generations of cider makers, Mariana Barrera and her mom, María Inés Caparros. To get there, I fly over 700 miles to the province of Neuquén, in the west of the Patagonian region, then drive two hours east through orchards and vineyards to Villa Regina. An agricultural town with Italian heritage dating back 100 years, Villa Regina is roughly equidistant from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, located among the low-lying buttes of Río Negro’s Alto Valle region, where apples and pears have been grown for more than a century.