Ruta de Vino - Mendoza Argentina

I know, I know. This is a REALLY long post. I figured I haven’t been writing while in Mendoza and this is my way to catch up. I have broken this post into Day 1, then Day 2, so you can break up your reading pleasure over time and won’t get tired reading this at work for the rest of the day.

Wines are to northern California what wines are to Mendoza. We took the long distance bus ( Chevallier ) 307 pesos roundtrip out of Buenos Aires on Thursday, arriving in Mendoza early in the morning after a somewhat longer than anticipated bus ride.

Mendoza is 665 miles (1,074 km) west of Buenos Aires, in the foothills of the Andes. Since it is at a higher elevation (746 meters or 2,449 ft) you could guess it would be cooler than Buenos Aires, but that isn’t the case. This is high desert and the forecast was for low 80s F (upper 20s C), which would be perfect for visiting wine country.

From the city you can see the front range of the Andes and some of the snow capped second range. You have to take a tour to get to the highest, third range.

After getting settled into our hotel and walking around the town for about 45 minutes I think I had seen most of Mendoza. It is a city of a bit over 100,000 with 800,000 in the metro region, but there isn’t too much to the city itself. All its wonder lies in the outskirts and within the province which shares the same name.

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By fullpopfreddy on Nov 29, 2008, 16:27 in Argentina forum.

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