Mendoza is where Argentina makes its wine, and it does it at the foot of the highest mountain in the Americas. That combination is the whole point of the place: you can spend a morning tasting Malbec among the vines and an afternoon on the road towards Aconcagua, at almost seven thousand metres, and be back for dinner in the city.
Flights or bus, hotel, airport transfers and the days you choose, quoted as one price. This is how 01Argentina works: we do not sell loose excursions, we build the whole trip and stand behind it.
Flights from Buenos Aires, hotel in the city and the wine country over a few unhurried days. The version most travellers choose when Mendoza is one leg of a longer trip.
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The same wine country with a private guide and vehicle throughout, and a five-star hotel at the foot of the Andes. Arranged by our luxury division at 01argentina.travel.
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The same wine country reached overland, in a fully reclining sleeper seat across the pampa. Slower, considerably cheaper, and a genuine way to see the size of the country.
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In the city, out among the vineyards, or a small lodge in the Uco Valley. Where you sleep changes the shape of the days, so we choose it with you rather than for you.
More ›These are day tours you can add to any of the packages above — not trips on their own. If you decide to extend your stay in Mendoza, this is what we would put in the extra days.
Three or four nights is the usual answer, and it is a good one. That gives you two wine days in different districts, one day in the mountains, and a morning that is not committed to anything.
Two nights works if Mendoza is one leg of a longer route and you only want a taste. More than four starts to make sense when you want the Uco Valley properly, or you are going on to Chile over the Andes.
All three are good, and they are genuinely different days.
Luján de Cuyo is the historic district, close to the city, with the big classic names. Maipú is flatter and nearer still, which is why it works by bicycle. The Uco Valley is an hour and a half out, higher up, with the newest wineries and the biggest mountain views — and the longest day.
If you only have one wine day, most people are happiest with Luján de Cuyo. If you have two, we would pair it with the Uco Valley rather than with Maipú, so the two days do not resemble each other.
March and April, if you can choose. That is the harvest — the vendimia — and the vineyards are full of activity and turning colour.
Beyond that: summer is hot and dry and the days are long; winter is cold and clear, the vines are bare and the mountains are at their most dramatic, and the road towards Chile can close for a day after snow. Spring is green and quiet. There is no bad season, only different ones.
Classic tastings, yes, at every winery on the route. Lunch depends on the day: the Uco Valley and Luján de Cuyo days include a lunch by courses at a winery restaurant, and the Maipú bike day includes a shorter lunch or picnic among the vines.
If you want a premium or reserve tasting at a particular winery, tell us when you write and we ask for it when we book the day.
Often, yes, and it is worth asking. What we will not do is promise a name on a web page twelve months in advance, because wineries change their visiting hours and their availability through the year.
Tell us which one matters to you when you write. We will tell you honestly whether it can be booked for your dates, whether it costs extra, and whether it fits with the rest of the day.
No. The day out to Aconcagua is a road trip with a short, easy walk at the end of it — about two hours to the Horcones lagoon viewpoint, on a well-made path, from where you see the south face and the summit.
Climbing Aconcagua is a three-week expedition and a completely different thing. This is the day trip: you look at the mountain, you do not climb it.
Yes, and the crossing is one of the great road journeys in South America: the old international road over the Andes, past Aconcagua, down to Santiago on the other side.
It can also be flown in under an hour. Tell us what you have in mind and we will lay out both versions, with the border crossing arranged either way.
Write to us with your dates, how many of you are travelling and roughly what you want out of Mendoza — wine, mountains, or a bit of both.
We come back within 24 hours with a proposal written for you, with the days laid out and everything priced as one figure. Nothing is booked until you are happy with it.
Most travellers arrive in Mendoza with wine in mind, which is fair enough: this is where roughly seventy per cent of Argentine wine is made, and the Malbec that made the country famous grows here. Three or four days of tasting rooms, though, and even the keenest visitor starts to glaze over.
What saves it is the geography. Mendoza sits at the foot of the highest mountain range outside Asia, and the Andes are visible from almost everywhere in the province. An hour and a half west of the vineyards there is a road over a pass at more than three thousand metres, a reservoir you can sail on, thermal water coming out of the rock, and the south face of Aconcagua. The good version of a Mendoza trip alternates between the two.
Tell us your dates and how many of you are travelling and we will lay the days out so the wine and the mountains take turns, and quote flights, hotel and transfers as one figure. We have been arranging trips across Argentina since the year 2005, and one person handles yours from the first email to the last day.
Free quotation within 24 hours, with no obligation. Tell us your dates, how many of you are travelling and whether you lean towards the wineries or the mountains, and we will come back with the days laid out and everything priced together.
Mendoza is almost always one leg of a longer route. These are the ones it pairs with most often.
The city almost everyone flies into, and the one Mendoza is most often paired with.
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The other end of the country, and the classic three-stop route: Buenos Aires, Iguazú and the west.
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The itineraries travellers actually book most often, several of them with Mendoza inside.
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