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Mendoza: Half-Day Wine Tour & Olive Oil Tasting

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Duration6h

GroupUp to 24

LanguagesEN · ES

PickupAt your hotel

What you actually taste across four different producers in one afternoon

You visit four different wine and olive oil producers across one afternoon in Mendoza, tasting at each stop and seeing how family operations differ from modern boutiques. All tastings, transport, and local taxes are included. The tour runs in the afternoon and the order of stops can shift based on which wineries are open for visits that day.

Step-by-step itinerary

Visit artisanal winery and vineyard
Taste two wines at artisanal winery
Visit modern boutique winery and vineyard
Taste two wines at boutique winery
Visit olive oil factory and production
Taste olive oil products
Visit sweet liqueur wine museum
Taste sweet wines at museum

The Experience

You probably think half a day isn't enough time to understand Mendoza wine, but the structure here makes it work. The tour hits four completely different operations back-to-back — an organic family winery first, then a modern boutique producer, then an olive oil factory, and finally a heritage sweet wine cellar that's been around for over a century. Each stop has its own rhythm and focus, so you're not just drinking the same thing four times over. The air-conditioned vehicle moves you between them, and the guide walks you through what's happening at each stage: the vineyard work, the production process, the storage, and then the tasting itself.

The contrast is the whole point. You see how a small, traditional operation runs differently from a sleek, modern one — different philosophies, different scales, different wines coming out the other end. At the olive oil factory (note: this part runs in Spanish), they show you how they make their products and you taste what they've made. Then the sweet wine cellar is almost a museum experience; it's got more than a hundred years of history built into it, and the wines taste like that history matters. By the end of the afternoon you've moved through four different worlds of production, not just four different glasses.

The wineries themselves can shift depending on what's open for visits that day — the tour might swap in Don Manuel Villafañe, Casa Corbel, Cecchin Family, Florio, or Esencia 1870 depending on availability — but the structure stays the same. You're getting the organic-to-modern comparison, the olive oil stop, and the heritage sweet wines no matter which specific producers end up on your itinerary. It's the kind of detail that matters if you're trying to actually learn something about how Mendoza wine works, not just collect tastings.

What’s included

Your afternoon includes air-conditioned transport between all four stops, tastings of two wines at the family winery, two wines at the boutique winery, olive oil factory products, and sweet wines at the heritage cellar.
Local taxes are covered for foreign residents and international card payments.
You arrange your own way to the meeting point.

Good to know

Easy physical levelWheelchair accessibleStroller friendly

Operated by Viajes y Diseno EVT 16298

Is this one for you?A good fit if you want to see how different scales and styles of wine production work in Mendoza without arranging transport or paying separately for each tasting. The afternoon pace and four-stop structure are what fit this much variety into a half day.