Archive for the ‘Wine Argentina’ Category
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
Contours Travel have teamed with Sydney based wine writer Jim McMahon who will lead a truly gourmet tour to Chile and Argentina. Experience the finest of wines in many of the wine regions from the back drop of the Andes Mountains in Chile through to the Mendoza region of Argentina ...
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Friday, November 4th, 2011
Buenos Aires has always had an air of the mythical about it. The city's favorite son (not counting football star Diego Maradona), writer Jorge Luis Borges once penned, "To me, it seems a mere tale that Buenos Aires had a beginning: I judge her to be as eternal as water ...
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
THE UPSHOT
First wine-themed hotel in Buenos Aires, the 30-room Mio is owned by the Catena wine-producing family, with rooms starting at $269 (prices are given in U.S. dollars).
LOCATION
In leafy Recoleta, on exclusive Avenida Quintana, Mio is close to high-end shopping at designer boutiques and near Patio Bullrich mall and just ...
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Monday, September 19th, 2011
FOR visitors to Argentina, missing out on Mendoza, the country’s main wine region, doesn’t mean missing out on its wines — or, for that matter, those of other Argentine regions. In the last few years, a number of wine-tasting opportunities have opened in Buenos Aires, offering samples of the best ...
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Friday, August 26th, 2011
Leading Hotels are known for fine accommodations, as well as outstanding dining. Just as there are hundreds of stories attached to Leading Hotels themselves, there are stories to tell about some of the stellar wine cellars associated with each hotel. The following is a sampling of an oenophile's dream collection:
At ...
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Friday, August 19th, 2011
Fine wine and excellent cuisine are highlights of this tour that will take you to Argentina and Chile’s top winemaking regions.
Enjoy stays at exclusive boutique hotels and opportunities to dine at state-of-the-art wineries as you travel from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires to Mendoza, one of the most famous wine producing regions ...
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Thursday, July 7th, 2011
In recent years, American travelers have gotten used to watching their greenbacks shrivel away in the face of the mighty euro. But as it plunges to new lows some days, there may be no safe place for the U.S. dollar to go to get a little R&R.
The Canadian dollar is ...
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Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
It's been a sensational year of global wine tasting for yours truly. Studying in France last spring provided me with the chance for a weekend of sancerres and vouvrays in the Loire Valley and a freezing day in Reims amongst the bubbly champagnes of Mumm and Moet et Chandon. My ...
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
The wine regions in Argentina happen to be quite exemplary. This large country has got a number of such regions including Mendoza, Cordoba, Rio Negro, Salta and Cafayate. Each one of these regions is renowned for wine having specific taste. This Argentina travel advice focuses on the wine making regions ...
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Monday, January 31st, 2011
Invited by Wines of Argentina, and in the fine company of Toronto-based master sommelier John Szabo, I spent 10 days in Argentina in November.
One of the challenges facing countries like Argentina is that its international image is defined largely by what it exports. So for most of us here in ...
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