I'm not sure if everyone was aware - but Brad and I took a 13 hour bus ride from Buenos Aires to Mendoza. We splurged on the "Cama" which is essentially a lay flat seat! We were both pretty excited for the experience! Our bus left at 8pm and was supposed to get into Mendoza at around 9:30am.
The extra fun part was at about 4:00am when our bus broke down. Apparently they were working on it for a while, but then another bus came along with enough space to take everyone on our bus. So we were abruptly woken up and told (en Español) to take all of our things and leave. In a parking lot. In the middle of nowhere. Anyhoo... It all worked out and we arrived in Mendoza about 1.5 hours after we were supposed to. No biggie. ;)
Now onto the good stuff! The wine! We arrived at our hotel - which is also a working winery - Club Tapiz!
We were greeted by Monica who immediately helped us set up reservations with wineries for the following days. It was SUCH a wonderful place to stay and I highly recommend it. We were in the Casa Zolo part of the place - which used to be the governors residence many years ago.
The grounds are beautiful!
On our first day there we enjoyed some complimentary Tapiz wine at Casa Zolo, and then headed to the evening wine tasting on site with Alejandro! It was wonderful to meet the other guests and be toured around the property- wine glass in hand!
Look at how big the wine barrels are! They aren't in use anymore though.
It was an amazing way to start our trip in Mendoza!! Our next post will be day 2 in Mendoza- when the real wine tasting begins!!!
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