In today's video, we're going wine tasting in Mendoza! No trip to Argentina would have been complete without a detour to wine country, so, for our final week, we embarked on a vineyard hopping adventure. The first winery we visited was Bodegas Lopez, an established name in Mendoza’s winemaking scene and we ended up having a lot of fun!
We arrived at Bodegas Lopez at 10:00 am where we kicked off our full-day winery tour with breakfast - because you’ve got to get some food in your belly before you go wine tasting! They had set up a hearty Argentine breakfast featuring homemade bread, medialunas, pastries, jamón crudo, butter, berry jams, orange juice, tea and coffee. We enjoyed a leisurely breakfast and then when we couldn’t stuff ourselves with any more bread, we went downstairs and met up with our guide for the day, Nicolás.
During our guided tour of Bodegas López we visited the augers and milling machines, fermentation tanks, pneumatic presses, ageing areas and bottle storage area. We got to see some massive barrels - the largest of which held 57,600 litres of wine!
Next up, we walked a couple of blocks over to the champañera, where they specialize in sparkling wines. They need to produce this wine in a separate facility because the process is quite different and involves adding both sugar and yeast, something that cannot be done to their other wines. The cool thing about touring the champañera is that we got to see the only part of the bodega that still has vineyards on-site, since what was once countryside has developed into a city, so that means that the vineyards are a lot further out.
We had lunch at Rincón de López, the bodega’s on-site restaurant that features an ever-changing menu paired with their very own wines. We had beef empanadas paired with López Sauvignon Blanc, Ribeye steak with Casona López Malbec, and passionfruit cheesecake with Montchenot Extra Brut. It was a feast!
After lunch, we went down to the cellar to begin the wine tasting. We sampled a total of 4 wines including Rosé Montchenot, Casona Lopez Cabernet, Montchenot 2009, and Dulce Natural.
And that pretty sums up our day at Bodegas Lopez! We left feeling merry that afternoon and I pretty much napped in the taxi all the way back to the city. I couldn’t have asked for a better start to our week of wine tasting in Mendoza.
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WINE TASTING in MENDOZA, ARGENTINA! 🍷 | Full Day Winery Tour of BODEGAS LÓPEZ in Maipú 🇦🇷:
Hey guys! We are Samuel and Audrey, a travel vlogging couple from Canada. In this travel channel we share our travel and food vlogs while touring the world.
We had the privilege of traveling around Argentina for nearly 3 months from January- April 2019 on a trip covering a large section of the country.
We kicked things off with several days in Buenos Aires where we were joined by Audrey's parents eating and sightseeing around some of our favourite neighbourhoods in the city.
On our way back to Buenos Aires, we took the Tren Patagonia to Las Grutas before meeting up with Audrey's dad again.
To finish off our trip in Argentina, we spent more time in the capital and later Mendoza where we got to experience wine tourism to its fullest extent. Overall, we had an amazing time travelling around Argentina having only scratched the surface of this vast and diverse country.
Overall our Argentina travel series explores cities, small towns that are off-the-beaten-path, and scenic attractions with a strong emphasis on Argentina cuisine and local culture.
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