Mendoza - Wine :-)

Yes! we are in the north again, which means warm weather and summer clothes...

Sunday morning at 9 am we arrived by bus to Mendoza... the bus trip was great, we travelled with Andesmar which was brilliant, and finally I got to play Bingo on the bus :-) Unfortunately I didn't win but we had fun....

Sunday we just hang around the hostel which has a nice garden and swimmingpool... we checked out the centre and had nice chats with the other people in the hostel.

Yesterday was the big day... WINE TASTING ...... We left at 10 am by bus to Maipu the winedistrict of Mendoza, we got of the bus at Mr. Hugo's and rented our bicycles... we also got a map and a bottle of mineral water... We were a group of 11 persons, new and old friends!

First stop was a wine musuem... very nice and interesting. After this we cycled to Bodega Viña el Cerno for 15ARS we could taste 2 wines each (3.50euro) the wines were nice, the guy was quite bored with us (tourists) so we left soon.

We continued cycling to the next one: "Bodega Familia di Tommaso", this one was very nice. We tasted 4 wines for 2.50 euro :-) (Malbec, Cabernet and a special dessert wine similar to Port) After the tasting we got a tour as well. The girl had a lot of knowledge about everything... Here we ate our lunch before heading off to "Olivicola Laur".

This is a olive farm.... also interesting and again tasting, olive oil, olives and sundried tomatos, the best!

For the next bodega we just had to cross the street: "Bodega Boutique CarinaE" Also this tour was amazing... again 3 wines for less than 5 euro's... Here we got to taste a Malbec Rose.... very nice with the hot weather.

This bodega was the last one so we had to cycle around 6km back to get to the final pitstop:

"Historias & Sabores" here they have al kind of liquers, chocolate ones, and even Absinth! Nobody tried it (maybe too much alcohol 65%) They also had marmelades which were lovely.

By the time we finished here it was already 7pm and we had to return the bicycles to Mr. Hugo. When we arrived there he opened some bottles of wine for us and we had an aperitive...(in totally we got 6 bottles) At 9.20 pm we decided to leave and returned to the centre.

As a final cherry on the cake for today we went for a dinner at an irish pub with the whole group.

It was really a great day and if anyone decides to come to Argentina, don't forget Mendoza and the wine :-)