Argentina Part 8
Mendoza is famous for their wineries or "bodegas" so we had to spend a day doing some tours. Mendoza is most famous for the Malbec wines. I heard they have somewhere between 900-1200 wineries in the area. On Wednesday night we went to a place in the city called "The Vines" which allows you to do tasting of different wineries. We happened to be there on a special night where they had an actual winemaker there doing a tasting of her wines. It was in half Spanish and half English. The winery was called Morgot, which they pronounced as "mar-gaught" instead of silent "t". She was rather beautiful and charming. It turned it that it was a very small winery and the wines she brought were all quite good.
I'm just about to leave a hotel for the airport right now which is right around the corner from The Vines, originally we had to walk some distance to get to it from our apartment. Will finish the rest of the journal when I get back as I need to check out of my hotel. In the meantime the full photoset from the trip can be viewed here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrussell/sets/72157627846522418/
For now about a 20 hour trip back to JFK since I'm flying out of the small airport in Mendoza.