Wednesday 20 February 2013

Mendoza Day 2


     Bike and Wine touring in Maipu. 

 We had a lazy morning of relaxation and then decided we should take take short wine tour on bikes through Maipu.  So Marcelo booked us in last minute and arranged a taxi to take us out to Maipu which is located just south of Mendoza.  We rented our bikes reviewed the map and took off.

 The first winery we hit was called Bodega Trapiche.  It is a very large winery so we asked if we cooked skip the tour and go straight to a tasting.  The fellow at reception was a little hesitant but after a bit of convincing he agreed and radioed his college to come and fetch us to take us to the tasting room.  We arrived and he invited us to look around and then have a seat on the nice leather couch.  He then bought out 3 bottles of red wine 1/3 full and told us to make ourselves at home and enjoy the wine.  We had the whole place to ourselves and the wine was wonderful.  We started with their mid range Malbec, then a Cab Sav and then their Premium Malbec.





We could have stayed there all afternoon, but about 1.5 hours later we had finished the wine and decided we should attempt to ride our bikes to the next stop.  Our next stop was an olive stop that also sold liquors and chocolate.  The olive paste with garlic was very tasty and also the dulce de leche con coco was to die for.  So I now have additional glass jars to put in my bag.







Next stop Bodega Vina Maria which was a very small family owned winery.  We tried two red malbecs, one was a young wine and the other had been aged for 2 years.  We both liked the young wine the best which surprised me because I thought it would have a very raw taste, but it was really quite smooth.





  This was as far as we got before we had to head back for our shuttle to the apartment.  Bill was not too happy with his bike seat, his ass was not happy even with all the wine he consumed.

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