Argentina Wine route

The route of wine offers a trip around different geographies and wonderful landscapes. A full range of resources, including a variety of not only vines and wineries, but also climates, heights, peoples and cultures, are blended together at every region to produce the most diverse wines, which are in all cases in tune with the personality of their places of origin. All these resources turn this route into an adventure full of flavors and sensations, open to all tastes and preferences, and particularly enticing to lovers of good wines.

As opposed to other wine growing countries, Argentina does not have one linear wine route with wineries succeeding one another at a few meters’ distance. The so-called Argentine Roads of Wine actually connect different wine growing oases chained together over large distances either southwards or northwards.

From the Calchaquí Valleys, in Salta, you pass on to some Catamarca villages, and from there, down to La Rioja, which has three wine growing valleys rather far-flung from each other. Then, you go down to San Juan, where wine activity is distributed among four different oases. The “route" turns a little eastwards to the district of Colonia Caroya (Córdoba), to later go back west to Mendoza, with its four tourism-open wine growing venues. A long way away from Mendoza is Neuquén and, virtually next to Neuquén, is the Alto Valle del Río Negro (a high valley of a river). At this point, the route forks into the newest La Pampa vines, which are as yet not open to tourism, and further south into El Hoyo (Chubut), where there are the southernmost vines both in the country and the world. 

All ten wine growing provinces offer their own characteristic landscapes and wines, the only shared feature of them being perhaps the fact that they all produce mainland wines. Indeed, Argentine wines are unique in that they have never received sea influence, as opposed to any other wines in the world. Each oasis has its own typical features and its own unique wines. All of them together make up a very special route, full of landscapes, flavors and sensations, which will surely live up to the most demanding tastes and expectations.

Wine-therapy is a new technique originated in ages-old practices and first used as such by two Frenchmen from Bordeaux in 1999. Nowadays, it is part of the services offered by hotels, spas, and lodges in the Mendoza, Salta, and San Juan wine tourist circuits, and it is also expected to be incorporated as a new attraction in the provinces of La Rioja and Neuquén. Wine therapy is said to have healthcare properties related to the relaxation, rejuvenation and aesthetics of the body.


source: Ministerio de Turismo
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