Qualla: Colomé https://qualla.com/colome en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Colomé https://qualla.com/colome Colomé: Introduction https://qualla.com/colome/ At more than three thousand meters above the sea, the air is so thin and the sun so fierce that grapevines have no business surviving here at all. And yet they do. In the village of Colomé, tucked into a fold of the Calchaquí Valleys some twenty kilometers from the town of Molinos, vineyards climb the dry slopes to heights that would leave a hiker short of breath. One of them, planted between 2007 and 2009, sits at roughly 3,111 meters, and for years it has been counted among the highest vineyards in the world. The wine it yields carries a fittingly defiant name: Altura Máxima, maximum altitude.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/2/y/colome-wp/6e2y-colom-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Colomé: A Daughter's Cuttings https://qualla.com/colome/ The story begins with an ending. Nicolás Severo de Isasmendi was the last Spanish governor of Salta, and in 1831 he established this remote settlement far from the centers of a crumbling colonial order. It was his daughter, Ascención, who gave Colomé its enduring purpose. She bro...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/2/y/colome-wp/6e2y-colom-a-daughters-cuttings.mp3 0:06 2 full Colomé: Climbing Toward the Limit https://qualla.com/colome/ For more than a century and a half, Colomé made wine in obscurity. Then in 2001 the Swiss vigneron Donald M. Hess bought the Bodega Colomé and the vineyards around it, and set out to push viticulture to its physical ceiling. Between 2007 and 2009 his team planted the Altura Máxim...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/2/y/colome-wp/6e2y-colom-climbing-toward-the-limit.mp3 0:06 3 full Colomé: A Museum Built of Light https://qualla.com/colome/ Hess did something else few would expect in a village this isolated. In 2009 he opened a museum in Colomé devoted to the American artist James Turrell, whose life's work is the manipulation of light and human perception. It was an audacious gesture: a permanent collection by one ...

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