Peruvian wine dates back centuries, to the Spanish colonisation of the region in the 1500s, with the first vineyard plante… d in about 1547. According to Master of Wine Jancis Robinson, Peru was the first country in South America to encourage systematic viticulture. The Peruvians imported specific varieties from Spain, and by the 1560s, the country is thought to have had roughly 40,000 hectares under vine. These produced enough wine to enable Peru to export them to other South American countries a