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Hola todos! Was a bit unsure of how to put this one together since there was way too many vinos and interesting bits to put in 20 slides so here’s a short video montage of everything we did on this vino tour.
So I booked a vino tour with this company called @Viajes_y_diseño which consisted of a visit to 3 wineries and an olive oil factory. This tour costed about £18 but was well worth the money. It is an afternoon tour that runs from 14:00 to 20:00. So off we go to the first Winery, @Familia Cecchin, here we had a brief tour of the vineyards and then a quick look at the machinery they used to crush the grapes and ferment the vino on an industrial scale. Also an interesting note to take was this first Winery was fully organic, as in no chemicals were used in the the process of growing the grapes, one of only a handful of fully organic wineries out of Mendoza’s some 1000 wineries.
Then we got to tasting where we had 4 generous samples one orange wine. 2 reds, a Malbec and a Cabernet Sauvignon and one white. Each sample was about half what a normal glass of vino would be so to say generous is an understatement.
Next we moved on to winery number 2, a more industrial winery by the name of @Casacorbel.bodegon when you get here your first given 2 Rosé wines to try, just as generous as the first place in samples we were given. We then are shown round the place and get brought to Giant old wine barrels which you can actually go inside. At this point it’s another 4 vino samples of different red wines. Safe to say everyone is a little tipsy after that.
Next it is the olive oil plantation and factory which I forget the name of but it was interesting, in a similar sense to how things were back on the coffee plantations it is a laborious process which also is time constrained as they can only harvest in certain times of the year and the harvest has to be done fairly quickly. To extract the olive oil they use machinery and fill up large silos with the stuff. From what I remember it has to be kept at a certain temperature while they extract but would have to double check on that. After the factory tour we’re given samples of different strength oils to try with some bread. Was interesting visit and glad they didn’t drag this part out too much.
After this was the final Winery which was more of a museum, again didn’t get the name of this one but we are shown round the wine cellars before being given another load of wine to taste, I think about 5 other different vinos.
All in all I would say it was an excellent tour well worth the money, if you ask me you probably get that much worth of Vino!
The rest of my time in Mendoza was spent not doing a whole lot besides sorting some admin out for the next bunch of onward travel. The next blog will take us into Chile 🇨🇱 and onto the final stretch before Patagonia.
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