Author, writer, ghostwriter and journalist. 25 years writing for the Financial Times, the New York Times and others. Author of The Vineyard at the End of the World.
Ian Mount is an author, writer and journalist with 25 years of experience writing for publications from the Financial Times and the New York Times to New York magazine and NewYorker.com.
His book, The Vineyard at the End of the World: Maverick Winemakers and the Rebirth of Malbec (W.W. Norton, 2012), was chosen by JPMorgan Private Bank for its annual summer reading list — also known as the "Billionaires Book Club."
He is an experienced ghostwriter and has collaborated on four major published projects, including a Wall Street Journal bestseller with over 4 million copies sold (2016), as well as a New York Times bestseller (2023).
Most recently, Ian was an innovation columnist at Fortune.com and served as acting correspondent at the Financial Times in Madrid, where he lives with his wife and two children. Prior to Spain, Ian lived eight years in Buenos Aires, after moving from New York. He is also co-founder of The Bubble, a Madrid-based newsletter covering news and events from Spain.
The Vineyard at the End of the World tells the fascinating 400-year story of how the Mecca of wine emerged in the Andean desert.
Profiling the most important figures who fueled the Argentine revolution — including famed winemaker Michel Rolland, acclaimed American winemaker Paul Hobbs, and the Mondavi-style Catena family — Ian Mount describes in colorful detail the backbreaking work, brilliant innovations, and drama behind the scenes that put Argentina on the map.
Argentina has produced and consumed oceans of wine for a long time, but it was not particularly good. Oxidized, rustic and often made with a lower-class French grape called Malbec, it could not be sold outside the country's borders. But today, Argentina and its characteristic Malbec are on the tip of every intelligent oenophile's tongue. How did this happen?
Buy on Amazon →"The rise of Argentine wine and the unlikely triumph of the humble Malbec (the Seabiscuit of grapes) are one of the great untold stories of globalization." Benjamin Wallace, author of The Billionaire's Vinegar
"Ian Mount has found an important gap in the current library of wine books: Mendoza and Malbec. The story is fascinating." George Taber, author of The Judgment of Paris
Ian is an experienced ghostwriter and book editor, and has collaborated on four major entrepreneurial nonfiction projects — including a Wall Street Journal bestseller with more than 4 million copies sold (2016), and a New York Times bestseller (2023).
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