Casafuerte Posada Rural San Rafael

... Einkommensquelle. Der hier produzierte Wein, sehr viel Malbec, ist herrvorragend, dank mineralreichem Boden und viel Sonne.
La Carmelita besteht aus dem Hauptgebäude mit grossem Salon mit Feuerstelle, Küche und Nebenräumen. Zwei neue kleinere Gebaeude mit je 4 Doppelzimmer laden die Gäste zum Verweilen ein. Mein Zimmer ist hell und gemuetlich, mit freiem Blick ...

... information and maps for Maipu so we ended up driving almost to Chile in our quest to visit the Valle de Ucos and hence getting to the vineyards too late to get a tasting slot. 3)most vineyards seem to have been deserted and fairly recently revived. 4) vineyards with great service, proper tastings and wines we loved were Carinae, Renacer and Familia Zuccardi On the food front: 1) we had arrived there with the goal of good steak and wine and ...

... left the tourist office. With no idea of what there was to do, if there if fact was anything, we decided to call our losses and get the next bus out of there. (This was preceded by us buying whatever English / American brand food we could get our hands on and gorging ourselves on it). It turned out however, leaving was not such an easy matter, as on arriving at the bus station the next day expecting to jump on the next bus out of there, we ...

Waiting for a bus, so am going to go back and do some catch up. On Wednesday I took a bus out to Maipu and rented a bike to tour the wineries. Road to several different wineries and did tastings and tours and had a generaly great time. Met several people along the way, and ended up touring most of the day with a couple from Switzerland. Ended the day back at the bike rental shop where ...

... across our feet under the table ... no doubt hoping a morsel would drop on his head. Dinner was great , for me a rabbit ravioli , coupled with us sharing a bottle of very good Mendoza red wine. We all liked this place very much and I definitely think it should be listed on the "bikes and wines" route rather than the "Almacen del Sur". Time was pressing now as it was 3.00 pm and we were on stop 4 of 11 !´So onwards to the next bodega , not too far away and a very classy place ...

... just noticed I missed out a whole evening, so here he is to tell you about it, plus his side of the footie game - apparently you deserve to hear about it from a true football supporter!!... It wasn't quite like being slapped round the face by the hilarious orange bald fella however we did have an entertaining impromptu live music night at the Tango hostel on Friday night where it seemed audience participation was the go. Middle age though does have its benefits and the teenage ...

... to sort out our tickets for the next day and to Olivia´s delight, we took a bus to the shopping mall! Even Taj must admit that he was happy to see a glossy mall although that soon wore off! We took a local bus to Maipu and proceeded to walk around for the next hour trying to locate vineyards from the tiny maps we had. These maps, we soon found out, were not to scale and distances which looked small on the map turned out to be very ...

... With the tour behind us though, I realized the canyon was the second best thing you could do in San Rafael and I was glad we had went. As for Mendoza I still wanted to try some more restaurants, see a couple of places and most importantly take a tour of Ayzem Beer factory. Bad luck prevailed to my great dissapointment, the factory is closed on weekends and they weren´t giving tours the following week because of brewing classes, also totally full. As some consolation ...

... pulling them backwards! We had a lot of water fights with two other boats when we were through the rapids and at one point algae was being thrown between the boats. The river itself was lovely and the scenery was stunning. We went to a bodega on the way back and were shown round the winery. They also showed us there plum harvest and the process they go through to become prunes. It was really interesting and they tasted divine.

... so long we couldn't see anything. On the up side we did get to share a beautiful semi-desert sunset over the pampa with our fellow passengers. I think we all learned something that night. We arrived in the pouring rain at 6am and stood for 10 mins waiting for a taxi only to find out that the taxi office was 10 meters away. Doh! Then we had a frustrating day in the hostel as we tried to organise our activities but due to the 4 days of ...