The family Ponce can show with pride not only one releases tradition of outstanding generations in the national grape and wine growing, but even an important protagonism, from the province of Mendoza, in the same consolidation of Argentina. Thus already in 1845, Jose Ponce, military man and Argentine journalist, – soon of to have fought in the battle of Roundup of Means with the army of Lavalle and its later one I exile in Chile, returned to Mendoza where it founded and it directed the Constitutionalist of the $andes, the first provincial newspaper dedicated to the progress and the education. His smaller son, Jose Rudecindo Ponce, after withdrawing like engineer agronomist of the University of Louvain, crossed Europe more compiling the advanced oenological treaties of the time, with the purpose of to teach them and to apply them in our country. Later he was founding and professor of the National School of Grape and wine growing, and member of the Council of Education of the province. On 1897 he founds the familiar warehouse, that will have continuity in market for more than 70 years. In addition it was delegated and conventional of the constitutional reform of Mendoza of 1916.
His older son, Jose Raul Ponce, in 1925 just by 30 years was appointed Director of the National School of Grape and wine growing, loaded that he carried out during 14 years, having be the holder who more time was to position. Jose Raul obtained in 1929 a significant change with respect to the establishment that happened to be called National School of Agriculture and Enology, and of the granted title that happened to be the one of Enlogo Agriculturist, increasing so much the educative supply as the investigation, since he began to include other agronomic disciplines and began education on genetics. Continuing with this invaluable inheritance, Caesar Ponce, grandson of Jose Raul, member of the World-wide Association of Wine Journalists and jury of important contests specialized, after to have been founding partner and director during ten years of the magazine Wine Masters and salary obtained the prize Mountain range 2005, it faces the challenge to recreate the familiar warehouse, from the vineyards of the family and associate property and an agreement with international group ARCOU, with the intention of producing for the Argentine and world-wide market a line of wines and espumantes of average and discharge range: ” mission of our warehouse it is to discover the perfect combination between main the varietal ones of the best terruos of Mendoza, to obtain the best wines Blend Premium”..