Di Tomasso Vintage

Sideways to Mendoza

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March 7th 2010
It was a 15 hour bus ride that took me overnight to the capital of Argentina’s wine producing region. Mendoza is a desert town at the foot of the Andes and within the last few years has caught the attention of wine buffs for producing some fantastic wines. Mendoza is merely a desert town which feeds its vineyards through a complex system of irrigation channels which line every street in this are ... read more

South America » Argentina » Río Negro » San Carlos de Bariloche

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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