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Piedra Infinita Winery, Uco Valley, Mendoza. Courtesy of @visitargentina
TBK0515 What’s included • Needed transfers • Accommodation: 3 nights • Tours: Gourmet Night Espacio Trapiche - Sparkling wines tour - Uco Valley Premium Experience - Catena’s World • Meals: 3 breakfasts - 3 lunches 1 dinner - mentioned tastings • Needed tickets to wineries
Day 1 Mendoza. D Reception at the airport and transfer to the hotel. Afternoon at leisure. In the evening, we go to Maipú to enjoy a gourmet night at Trapiche winery. We begin with a night tour through the winery that finishes in Espacio Trapiche where we have a three-step paired dinner with the best winery’s varietals. Day 2 Mendoza. B L Today we enjoy a day dedicated to sparkling wines. Our day starts visiting Cruzat Winery, specialized in Champenoise method. This is the procedure to make a sparkling wine as Champagne region style.
There we make a wine tasting directly from the tanks, tasting three sparkling wines. The second winery we visit is Chandon and then, Norton. In both of them we do a historical tour and in the end, a wine tasting. This tour finishes in Séptima Winery where we have lunch paired with premium sparkling wines and soft wines. Day 3 Mendoza. B L This highend tour is designed to enjoy and share an excellent wines’ day. We begin visiting Salentein winery where we taste their wines and explore the Killka Space used by well-known local, national and international artists to exhibit and sale their works. Our next stop is Zuccardi Uco Valley, which won the first place between the best fifty wineries in the world in the World’s Best Vineyards ranking. The new winery was built with natural elements from the stone walls to the concrete pools where the wines rest; that is one of its main characteristics. In this winery, there are not stainless
steel tanks because they seek the maximum respect to the wine, in a neat and silent environment. Visiting this winery allows us to explore its vineyards while we discover the different soils’ characteristic and particularities that give identity to the wines. At the end, we have lunch in Piedra Infinita, where we can enjoy a fourstep menu produced with regional products paired with Zuccardi wines. Day 4 Mendoza. B L During this day, we have a tour focused on Catena Zapata, a family that took Argentinian wines to the world. Our first stop is in Caro winery. Its aim was choosing the best terroirs to magnify the pairing between Malbec and Cabernet Sauvignon. Then, we continue through Catena Zapata winery and we discover the Catena Zapata World’s secrets: its wines, wineries, history and passion, in order to finish having lunch in Casa Vigil, which in 2017 was called the best winery restaurant in Argentina
and one of the best in Mendoza. The restaurant, also known as The Enemy, has a winery where the pure Cabernet Franc wine has the highest mark ever given to a wine by The Wine Advocate written by Robert Parker. After lunch, transfer to the airport.
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Operational notes: Day 1: Espacio Trapiche is available in shared service on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Day 2: Sparkling Wines Tour only operates in private service. It does not operate on Sundays. Day 3: Uco Valley is available from Tuesdays to Sundays. Killka Museum at Salentein winery remains closed on Mondays. Day 4: Catena World is available in shared services on Tuesdays and Fridays. It requires a departure flight after 7 PM. To keep in mind: The order of the scheduled excursions and the wineries selection may change depending on their operation.
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