Flat ground, short distances and a guide who rides with you instead of waiting at the end. This is the wine day for people who would rather not spend it in a minibus.
Maipú is the old wine district, and it starts where the city ends. The ground is flat, the roads between the bodegas are quiet, and the distances are short enough that the bicycle stops being transport and becomes part of the day.
You ride from one winery to the next with your guide alongside you, taste at each of them, and stop for lunch among the vines. Nothing about it is a race.
We collect you in Mendoza city and drive out to Maipú, where the bicycles are waiting. From there it is flat, quiet roads: twelve kilometres across the whole day, in short stretches.
Spaced so that the riding between them is part of the pleasure and not a transfer.
The classic tasting at every stop, out on the terrace or in the cellar depending on the hour and the weather.
A short lunch by courses, or picnic style, depending on the winery and the day. Unhurried either way.
Return to your hotel with the afternoon light on the vineyards, and the evening yours.
Three wineries in Maipú, which we confirm on your quotation, close to your date.
We do not print three fixed names a year in advance, because wineries change their visiting hours and their availability through the season, and a page that promises names it cannot keep is a page that disappoints somebody.
No. It is a day tour we add to your Mendoza package if you decide to stay a little longer. 01Argentina arranges the whole trip — flights or bus, hotel, transfers and the days you choose — and this is one of the days you can choose.
It is a gentle ride, but it is a ride. The ground through Maipú is flat and the distances between wineries are short, so it is not a sporting challenge. What we do ask is that you are comfortable on a bicycle. If someone in your group would rather not cycle, tell us and we will quote the same wineries by car.
It can be. Tell us when you write and we quote it either way. On the private version the bicycles and the guide are for your group alone, so you set the pace and can stay longer at the winery you like.
Comfortable clothes, closed shoes and a light layer — mornings in Mendoza are cooler than the afternoons even in summer. Sun protection is not optional here: you are at altitude, in open vineyard, with very little shade. A hat, sunglasses, sunscreen and more water than you think you need, on top of what the day provides.
March and April, during the harvest, are the months everyone wants, and the vineyards are at their best. December to February is hotter, so the riding is earlier in the day. In winter the vines are bare and the mountains are white, which is a different and quieter kind of day.
Yes, and most people do. This pairs naturally with a day in Luján de Cuyo or the Uco Valley for the larger wineries, and with a day in the mountains towards Aconcagua when you want a change from wine.
Tell us when you are travelling and how many days you have in Mendoza, and we will come back within 24 hours with the whole trip laid out — this day included if it fits.
Flights or bus, hotel, transfers and the days you choose, quoted as one price.
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The version most travellers choose when Mendoza is one leg of a longer trip.
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The same wine country reached overland, across the pampa in a sleeper seat.
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