They also had a few olive-oil based beauty products.
Our first winery was Cavas de Don Arturo, a family-owned winery that makes mainly red wines. As I mentioned in a past blog, the arid climate in Mendoza is perfect for growing the Malbec grape, which is why Argentina is famous for this type of wine. We started out with a tour of the machinery to clean and squish the grapes, the huge canisters to store the juice as it ferments into wine (with the important element of leaving in the grape skin and mixing for to make red wine; this also explains why red wine has health benefits that white wine does not), and the French oak barrels in which the wine is stored to age.
Then it was time for the tasting (yes!) The first wine was their more recent Malbec, and it was lighter and fruitier than many of the other Malbecs I had tasted, but still very good. Next was a Cabernet Sauvignon blah. Then, we had a Shiraz, which is supposedly the wine Jesus had at the last supper. Blah. Last, we tried the winery's 2006 prize-winning Malbec that was only available for sale at the winery. Rich, smooth, spicy and with caramely hints of dulce de leche, it tasted like Argentina in a bottle.
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