Posada Borravino Chacras de Coria

... to jump on the wine tours the day that we arrived, we did however have the chance to see some of the plazas that so graciously presented themselves across the city. These plazas gave a very warm feeling to the city and provided us with a sense that we were placed somewhere in the south of Spain or Italy. <br><br>Soon the next day came and that was the day for wine. We were told of Mr. Hugos wine tours by a few of the people that we had met in UY. What an amazing ...

... trees and plant life. Nice walk, but cloud cover is making it cold--looking forward to the warmth that is "supposed to be coming". Weathermen down here are just as accurate as fools in San Diego, completely worthless. Only job I know of that you can be wrong a majority of the time and still somehow keep it...be weary of anyone you know that desires this as a profession! I got to get me that job.<br><br>Stayed in Mendoza for 4 days...caught Argentina losing again, to ...

... 8th April. We spent a very low key day today and did very little after our active day yesterday. Thursday 9th April today we hung around waiting to go to the bus station at 1.30pm for our 2 pm bus to Santiago knowing we were going then to the airport to wait for our flight the next morning at 7am to Rio de Janeiro Brasil. Therefore we took it easy as the long haul was ahead of us. The bus ride was long as it was the Thursday before Easter it seemed that there was ...

... t resist - how will I get it home???) I was lucky to be here for harvest time so got a chance to see all the vineyards in action with people picking grapes &amp; sorting them. I loved the day so much that I booked to go again tomorrow - a different valley (Valle de Uco), different wines, apparently an even better lunch &amp; more spectacular scenery (closer to the mountains) ... I'm sure I'll be dreaming of wine tonight and maybe some of that yummy food.

... and we were all searched before entering the grounds. I basically had to empty all my pockets and they took my pen :o( The stadium was built for the world cup and could seat around 40,000 although I think there were only around 10,000 and only about 80 of these were fans supporting the away team. Somehow we managed to get in without buying tickets and the guy on the gate instructed us to stand close to the police as the area we were in was not ...

... it, and some of the finest wine in the world is produced here. We have booked onto 2 tours, 1 goes tomorrow and we visit 4 vineyards, have a 5 course lunch at one with a different wine for each course. Then on Friday we visit 3 more vineyards that are at high altitude ( a new concept in wine making, and it is producing some incredible results), again we have a 5 course lunch with wine included on that trip. Well, it has stopped raining now (apparently it ...

... completely organic, and the winery's tour guide was late, so the owner ended up showing us around. Apparently, Argentina is quite lucky because there are no insects here that attack the vines, and fungus is not a big problem because it's not overly-humid in the wine-growing regions here. There were some interesting bits presented on the tour, but honestly, I've done enough of these over the years, so on to the best part ...

... or American oak, or steel, or concrete depending on the quality of wine, and from their it flows down another level into secondary malic acid fermentation tanks, and from there, through various tubes and bifurcating ducts, into barrels housed in a melodramatically lit stadium sized cellar. We traversed the cellar on catwalks, looking down onto thousands of stacked barrels and massive pop art portraits of women by a Singaporean artist / mathematician who used ...

... our thirsts with cold drinks in the oceanview lounge of the Sheraton. Back on a local bus to Valparaiso and to the bus terminal for the trip back to Santiago. An interesting day. We stopped for ice cream (again) and will post a picture of Harry with a triple decker cone and a joyful expression. We left Santiago early on a bus that would take us past expansive vineyards and eventually by Anconcagua, the highest mountain in the southern ...