WINE TASTING in MENDOZA, ARGENTINA!

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!