Buenos Aires – Argentine wine exports to the United States topped those from neighboring Chile last year, spokespersons for the National Institute of Viniculture told Efe Tuesday. Argentina exported $222 million worth of wine to the United States in 2010, compared with $210 million for Chile. Total foreign sales of Argentine wine exceeded $860 million last year, up 12 percent from 2009, when a poor harvest blamed on bad weather forced Argentina to import Chilean wine to meet domestic demand. Argentina now ranks fourth, behind Italy, France and Australia, as a supplier of wine to the U.S. market.