​Gwerthu gwin Patagonaidd yng Nghymru i gefnogi Ysgol y Cwm.

Fe ymwelodd John Watkin o Dregaron a Phatagonia'r llynedd, i ddathlu 150 o flynyddoedd ers i´r Cymry cyntaf lanio yn y Wladfa. Yno, cafodd flas ar ddiwylliant Cymreig wrth ymweld ag Eisteddfod y Wladfa yn Nhrelew, a chafodd gyfle i flasu rhai o winoedd arbennig yr ardal.
 
Cafodd John ei syfrdanu gan ei brofiadau yno, ac fe´i ysgogwyd i fewnforio gwin Archentaidd i mewn i Gymru. Wedi misoedd o ddelio gyda chymhlethdodau logistaidd y broses, mae John nawr yn falch o gael lansio gwin Malbec Patagonaidd “Meibion y Mimosa”. Bydd yr holl elw o werthiant y gwin hwn yn mynd tuag at Ysgol y Cwm (Ysgol Gymraeg yr Andes gynt) yn Nhrevelin.
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Am ragor o wybodaeth, cysylltwch â [email protected].

Mae Ysgol y Cwm hefyd yn derbyn elwau o werthiant dau lyfr ar hanes y Wladfa, sef ´Gwalia Patagonia´ gan Jon Gower a ´Cyflafan Dyffryn y Merthyron´(ar gael yn Siop y Pethe, Aberystwyth) gan Jeremy Wood, llyfr tair-ieithog am hanes llofruddiaeth tri o Gymry ifanc yn 1884, a dihangfa enwog John Daniel Evans ar ei geffyl Malacara.

​A new Patagonian wine announced in Wales to support Ysgol y Cwm.

John Watkin, of Tregaron, visited Patagonia last year for the 150th Anniversary of the arrival of the first Welsh settlers. His visit gave him a chance to enjoy Patagonian Welsh culture at first hand, through the Chubut Eisteddfod, as well as allowing him to sample many of the wonderful Patagonian wines that rarely leave the cellars of the avid collectors in this little-known wine growing region.

He was sufficiently impressed with both experiences that he spent many months dealing with the complexities of importing Argentinean wine into Europe and he has now launched in Wales a Patagonian Malbec, "Meibion y Mimosa", all the profits from the sale of which will be given to Ysgol y Cwm (previously called Ysgol Gymraeg yr Andes) in Trevelin.

For more information, please contact John Watkin at [email protected]

Ysgol y Cwm is also the recipient of the sales proceeds of two books relating to Patagonia. Jon Gower's "Gwalia Patagonia" and Jeremy Wood's recently published trilingual book (available at Siop y Pethe, Aberystwyth) about the murder of three young Welsh men by Patagonian Indians in 1884 and the discovery of a new location of "Malacara's Leap", the site where the only survivor of the attack, John Daniel Evans, was carried to safety by his young horse.