The Best Wine I Drank

Bikes and wine - without the bikes

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December 26th 2007
Today I went with a few people from my hostel for a bikes and wine tour. The idea is to ride a bicycle between different vinyards, and have tastings. Normally this is done in a small village near Mendoza called Maipu, but we had a wine expert from California, who said that the wines there are not so good, so instead we went to another small village, Chacras. We got to Chacras to discover that ther ... 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