Diplomatic Mendoza
Belgrano 1041 Mendoza, Province of Mendoza, Cuyo, Argentina
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Today started with a 4.30am wake up and dash to the Buenos AIres city airport for what would be my first solo flight for the trip and a very long delay. I flew to Mendoza separately to Rebecca and Rachael because of the conditions of my round the world fare. We parted at the departure gate to our respective planes which were both respectively …
Vino Las Vegas!
Mendoza is essentially a desert with only 5% of it being cultivated for vineyards using ancient indigenous irrigation methods so it's kind of like Las Vegas where the fruit machines are actual vines and everyones a winner! Today, we certainly were.
We were picked up by Tom and Dario and taken to the only civilised place to start such a …
Sondo, Sondo, Sondo, Sondo
Today was not just a Good Friday but a great one! Bearing in mind that today was a public holiday, especially in a country as Catholic as Argentina, the doors and hearts that were opened to us were all the more gracious and generous for that fact.
Our first stop was to what has got to be the quintessential Mendozan vineyard - that of Angel …
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Mendoza wine and bikes.
... showed us how the exact same bottle of wine could be labelled in about 10 different ways. Its funny but a wine that is sold for 50 euro could be the exact same as one for 10 and all thats different is the label. After we went through the process of how the make the wines, it was time for a taste. Matthew gave us each a glass and we tasted a rosé and two malbec reds, one was more expensive as it had 0 sulphate or something but u could taste the difference. They were all ...
Mendoza
... tight for time and also couldn’t really make the most of the wine as it might result in us being sick on the long and bumpy bus ride! We decided to do what we could on Monday anyway as it is meant to one of the highlights of central Argentina.
The city itself is really nice. It is fairly big but is full of parks and squares, so doesn’t feel like a claustrophobic busy city. The city was destroyed by an earthquake and when it was rebuilt, all of streets were ...



