Gordon flying across the hills

Wine and fun in the hills - We´re in Heaven

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January 25th 2009
We were promised wine and fun in the hills......and they kept their promise! On a common theme - it´s like being in Europe. Mendoza is the main wine producing region in Argentina and it feels like it. The town is beautiful, the surrounding hills are beautiful (off into the Andes) and the wine is beautiful! The area´s people must have benefitted greatly from the wine production becau ... read more

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Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more