We spent a day traveling through wine country and visited two wineries for tours and a third one for dinner. We started by visiting a family-owned, boutique winery called Roberto Bonfanti. The 2 Bonfanti sons run the winery and gave us an incredibly detailed tour of the vineyard, the cellar, and the fermentation rooms. The entire tour was spoken in Spanish and we followed pretty well. We had to stop periodically to translate in English and make sure we knew what was going on. They spent a long time explaining how to properly pour, see, swirl, smell, and taste the wine. We bought some of their Malbec and Cabernet Sauvignon. Their entire production is done by hand including putting the labels on the bottles, corking them, and wrapping them individually in tissue paper. They were very proud of their product. They only sell by word-of-mouth and therefore not through distributors or restaurants. The second winery we visited was a large production company called Norton.
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mass producer of wine distributed around the world. It has an incredible view of the Andes and excellent estate, one of the oldest in Mendoza. We took a tour, this time in English, of their facilities and had a tasting at the end. We bought one of their special wines made from the grapes picked at that location called Perdriel. They have many vineyards around the Mendoza area and now in China. We had dinner at another large winery called Tapiz in the evening.
We spent a day traveling through wine country and visited two wineries for tours and a third one for dinner. We started by visiting a family-owned, boutique winery called Roberto Bonfanti. The 2 Bonfanti sons run the winery and gave us an incredibly detailed tour of the vineyard, the cellar, and the fermentation rooms. The entire tour was spoken in Spanish and we followed pretty well. We had to stop periodically to translate in English and make sure we knew what was going on. They spent a long time explaining how to properly pour, see, swirl, smell, and taste the wine. We bought some of their Malbec and Cabernet Sauvignon. Their entire production is done by hand including putting the labels on the bottles, corking them, and wrapping them individually in tissue paper. They were very proud of their product. They only sell by word-of-mouth and therefore not through distributors or restaurants. The second winery we visited was a large production company called Norton.
It is a 
mass producer of wine distributed around the world. It has an incredible view of the Andes and excellent estate, one of the oldest in Mendoza. We took a tour, this time in English, of their facilities and had a tasting at the end. We bought one of their special wines made from the grapes picked at that location called Perdriel. They have many vineyards around the Mendoza area and now in China. We had dinner at another large winery called Tapiz in the evening.
2 comments:
Lindy & Blake -- We're so enjoying your photos and descriptions of the places that you've visited. The trip to the Andes sounds incredible. Have a great Thanksgiving and we'll keep checking back for more! The Scotts.
yum! can you bring some wine back with you..not that I need it or anything!
k
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