Transfer IN OUT APT/HTL/APT

Mendoza
Reception and transfer from Mendoza Airport to the hotel. City Tour around Mendoza.

Visiting Wineries: Wine Sampling and Tasting - Di Tommaso and Zuccardi Wineries
Breakfast. We begin the tour towards Old Di Tommaso Family Winery, located in Russell, Maipú. This winery, has its origins in the Friuli region, Italy and has profited from its experience of past generations to obtain internationally great level awarded wines. We will carry out a brief visit to the vineyards belonging to this old winery and, in its cellar, an expert on wine tasting will develop a one-hour-lasting course on wine tasting, including 3 different wines and then, we will be presented with three bottles of varietal wines.

We will continue the tour visiting an important winery; Familia Zuccardi’s Winery. We will learn about the Santa Julia wines. The visitor is introduced to the birth, making and tasting of wine, accompanied by specialists that would like the visitors to relax and get to know their exclusive wines. We will go into the tourism cellar to continue inside the winery and will finish this visit with wine tasting. At midday, we will walk through the “parrales”(vineyards) as part of “enoturism”. There, we will have a typical lunch: “empanadas” (meat pies), asado (Argentinean barbecue) with salads and 3 different types of wines. We will be presented with a bottle of a varietal wine. We will come back at 4 pm.

Visiting Wineries: Wine Sampling and Tasting - Chandon e Catena Zapata Wineries
Breakfast. We will go to the famous Chandon Winery: first branch of Moet & Chandon outside France. It has 1333 hectare of vineyards located on a high area of Mendoza river and Valle de Uco region. After the visit, we will taste wine and will be presented with a bottle of Chandon Champagne. We'll go to traditional Lagarde Winery, where we'll walk around the vineyards, observe the presses, the stainless steel tanks, as well as the old wooden barrels. We'll round up our visit tasting two varietal wines at their old 19th century country house.

In one of its rooms, we'll enjoy a seasonal five-course meal paired with their best wines.We continue towards a winery with a Mayan piramid design: Catena Zapata, which architectual concept, is a real tribute to the art and cience of making wines. Inside the winery, there is the circular cellar, with its 4000 oak barrels, surrounds the wine tasting room. An important technological structure, sustains the making process, devoted only to the obtaining of great wines: Nicolás Catena Zapata, Catena Alta, Catena, Alamos. Going back to the hotel. Rest of the day off.

Visiting Wineries: Wine Sampling and Tasting – Andeluna Cellars and Salentein Wineries
Breakfast at the hotel. We will set out for Andeluna Cellars Winery, which is situated in Tupungato Valley at more than 1,300m high at the foot of the Andes Mountains in a property of 80 hectares. It has a surface area of more than 4,500m2, controlled humidity and temperature, capacity to store 1,000,000 liters in stainless steel tanks, state-of-the-art technology and a cellar for 1,000 casks.

Then we will visit Salentein Winery, situated at more than 1,200 m.a.s.l. surrounded by its farm lands El Portillo, La Pampa and San Pablo. The cross-shaped building is unique of its kind. Each of the four wings is a little cellar that has two sections: the first one, downstairs, holds the stainless steel tanks; while the second one, underground, is used to age the wine in oak casks. The tour cellars converge in a central amphitheatre and share the modern bottling room.

Then we will head for Salentein Inn. This is a magical place to enjoy the hospitality of those who know how to be hosts, the regional food accompanied by wines from Salentein Winery, the surroundings doing trekking or riding on a bicycle, and tasting in the winery cellars; and at the end of the day find the warmth of a chimney and a delicate aroma of species in the air. A place to experience the wine production from the beginning. Dinner at the Inn.