The soil in this province has been tagged for more than just gold medal-winning reds.  It's also destined to quench the uranium thirst of Argentina's nuclear power industry.  Luke McMahon investigates.

Mendoza, like the rest of Argentina, is booming.  The economy has bounded forward since the crisis of 2001 and the signs of expansion are all around.  Government coffers are swelling.  New luxury hotels and apartment buildings are going up.  International investment and confidence in the wine industry has never been higher.  Economic growth nationwide is currently running at 9% a year, and recent figures put Mendoza's annual growth even higher.

Why I invested in Argentina

Vladimir Gasic puts his money where his hopes are and settles down in San Rafael

I lived in Arizona and real estate prices there have gone up considerably in the past two years (about 65%) due mainly to investor driven speculations. Such huge appreciation has never occurred before in the southwest.

Having gone through a stock market internet bubble-bust scenario in the late 1990s & early 2000, I decided not to gamble with my recently appreciated assets and determined to “be out two years too soon, than a day too late”.