Our day wine tasting was probably one of my favorite days EVER. The morning began with the four of us enjoying breakfast on the rooftop restaurant of our hotel. We drank our morning coffee while gazing at the Andes.
The bus picked us up around 9:30 and we headed off to the first vineyard of the day called the Navarro Correas Bodega. Our tour guide Fernanda explained that this vineyard was owned by the London based Diageo company. In addition to producing wine, this company is known for making Smirnoffs, Johnnie Walkers and Baileys. Upon arriving at the vineyard we noticed that it had a very modern feel. We toured the cellar and learned that wine should be stored at 11 degrees Celsius and that the kitchen closest is probably the worst place to put it (oops!). The actual wine tasting was included a sparkling white, a young Malbec and an aged Malbec. The older Malbec had an oaky taste and its flavor was more robust. All in all, it tasted very different than two buck chuck from Trader Joes!
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The second vineyard we visited is called Bodega Luigi Bosco. In contrast to the first vineyard, Luigi Bosco was founded in 1901 by the Arizu family. The family continues to run the vineyard today and are known to produce some of the best wine in Argentina. Before tasting the wine we picked grapes off the vine. They were probably the sweetest and most delicious grapes I have ever tasted.
We tried another sparkling white,a Cabernet Sauvignon blend and a Cabernet Franc Malbec blend. The tasting finished around noon. As you can imagine, we were pretty sleepy at this point.
Stop number 3 was my favorite. We made a new friend from Chicago named Jim who joined us for a picnic lunch at the Bodega Lagarde vineyard. In addition to delicious food prepared by the vineyard, our picnic included blankets, pillows and two bottles of Altas Cumbres Malbec to share between the five of us. After we finished eating, we walked around the vineyard and ate more grapes and tomatoes off the vine. We all agreed that this was the best picnic we ever had.
After a day of drinking and eating we were all excited to crash on the night bus! We miss you all and wish you could have enjoyed the day with us.
The bus picked us up around 9:30 and we headed off to the first vineyard of the day called the Navarro Correas Bodega. Our tour guide Fernanda explained that this vineyard was owned by the London based Diageo company. In addition to producing wine, this company is known for making Smirnoffs, Johnnie Walkers and Baileys. Upon arriving at the vineyard we noticed that it had a very modern feel. We toured the cellar and learned that wine should be stored at 11 degrees Celsius and that the kitchen closest is probably the worst place to put it (oops!). The actual wine tasting was included a sparkling white, a young Malbec and an aged Malbec. The older Malbec had an oaky taste and its flavor was more robust. All in all, it tasted very different than two buck chuck from Trader Joes!The second vineyard we visited is called Bodega Luigi Bosco. In contrast to the first vineyard, Luigi Bosco was founded in 1901 by the Arizu family. The family continues to run the vineyard today and are known to produce some of the best wine in Argentina. Before tasting the wine we picked grapes off the vine. They were probably the sweetest and most delicious grapes I have ever tasted. We tried another sparkling white,a Cabernet Sauvignon blend and a Cabernet Franc Malbec blend. The tasting finished around noon. As you can imagine, we were pretty sleepy at this point.
Stop number 3 was my favorite. We made a new friend from Chicago named Jim who joined us for a picnic lunch at the Bodega Lagarde vineyard. In addition to delicious food prepared by the vineyard, our picnic included blankets, pillows and two bottles of Altas Cumbres Malbec to share between the five of us. After we finished eating, we walked around the vineyard and ate more grapes and tomatoes off the vine. We all agreed that this was the best picnic we ever had.
The last stop of the day was the Pasrai olive oil factory. They brought out a table full of bread and soaked it in olive oil infused with garlic, rosemary and more!
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After a day of drinking and eating we were all excited to crash on the night bus! We miss you all and wish you could have enjoyed the day with us.
Besos!
Sounds Ike you all had a wonderful day filled with new experiences! Love to hear about your travels and the pictures are the cherry on the top!
ReplyDeleteI especially like the short one.
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