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Buenos Aires: Malbec Wine Tasting & Gourmet Lunch Day Trip

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Duration7h

GroupUp to 12

LanguagesEN · PT +1

PickupAt your hotel

Malbec tasting in Buenos Aires countryside with gourmet lunch

You’ll spend a day outside Buenos Aires exploring Bodega Gamboa’s vineyards, tasting several styles of Malbec with local guidance. Enjoy a five-course gourmet lunch right at the winery’s restaurant, paired with wines from their own cellars. Includes pickup and transport so you can relax into the experience — expect laughter, good food, and maybe a surprise or two along the way.

Step-by-step itinerary

Wine tasting and gourmet lunch

Travel to Buenos Aires Province vineyards
Enjoy small-group full-day wine tasting
Taste different kinds of Malbec wines
Learn about Argentine wines with guide
Have 5-step gourmet lunch at winery

The Experience

I was honestly just curious about Argentine Malbecs — I’d heard the hype, but never really paid attention to the details. The drive out of Buenos Aires was longer than I expected (maybe an hour or so), but watching the city fade into open fields felt kind of peaceful. Our guide, Lucía, chatted about her own family’s wine traditions and pointed out these rows of vines that looked almost too neat against the sky. There was this earthy smell when we stepped out of the van — not just grapes, something deeper, like wet soil after rain.

The Bodega Gamboa winery itself is pretty new, which surprised me; I guess I pictured something older and crumbly. Instead it was all glass and wood, but still warm somehow. We tasted three different Malbecs — one young and fruity, another aged in oak barrels (that one hit differently), and a third that Lucía called “experimental.” I tried to pick up all those flavors she described (“plum,” “tobacco,” “violet”) but honestly my notes just said “good” and “strong.” She laughed and said that’s how most people start. At one point I spilled a bit on my shirt — classic me.

Lunch was this five-course thing in their restaurant, with big windows looking out over the vines. The food kept coming — empanadas, steak (of course), some creamy dessert I can’t pronounce. Each dish had its own wine pairing, which made me feel fancier than usual. The staff were patient even when we asked a million questions about how they make the wine here versus Mendoza. By the end everyone at our table was talking like old friends — or maybe that was just the Malbec working its magic.

I left with red-stained lips and a head full of new flavors. On the way back to Buenos Aires, I watched the sun drop behind those endless rows of vines and thought about how different wine tastes when you’re actually standing where it’s made. Still think about that view sometimes when I open a bottle at home.

What’s included

Your day includes pickup from Buenos Aires, entry tickets to Bodega Gamboa vineyard, guided tastings of different Malbec wines led by local experts, plus a leisurely five-step gourmet lunch at their restaurant before heading back in comfort.

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