Luján de Cuyo: Tierras Altas Malbec Tasting & Cellar Tour

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Underground Barrel Tasting at Tierras Altas: Where Mendoza's Malbec Ages

You'll tour the vineyards and steel tank room with a guide, taste wines at different fermentation stages, then descend into the underground cellar for a formal tasting that includes pulling wine directly from the barrel. The whole experience takes you through Tierras Altas' production process from grape to bottle, with tastings included throughout. Minimum drinking age is 18.

1h 30m

Step-by-step itinerary

Tour and wine tasting at Tierras Altas

Arrive at Tierras Altas winery
Enjoy guided winery tour
Walk through vineyards with wine glass
Learn about vineyards and grape harvesting
Visit steel tank room and taste wines
Explore underground cellar and oak barrels
Taste wine directly from barrel

The Experience

You walk in expecting a standard winery visit and instead find yourself standing in a cool underground cellar with a glass in one hand and a wooden barrel tap in the other. That's the moment Tierras Altas shifts from "nice tour" to something you actually remember. The winery sits in Luján de Cuyo, just outside Mendoza City, and it's been doing this since 1999 — one of the region's first boutique operations, built around stainless steel tanks and the kind of equipment that lets grapes get treated right. The whole experience moves through three distinct spaces: the vineyard itself, where you learn why Mendoza's soils matter to what ends up in your glass, then the steel tank room where fermentation happens and you taste wine straight from the source.

The tour starts with a guide walking you through the vineyard with a glass already in your hand — not a rushed explanation but a real conversation about harvest methods, soil types, and how the terroir shapes the final wine. You move into the steel tank room next, where the fermentation process gets explained in detail and you taste different stages of wine development directly from the tanks. It's the kind of thing that changes how you think about what you're drinking. Then comes the underground cellar, the part that stays with you: oak barrels stacked in rows, bottles aging in the dark, and a large wooden table in the center where the formal tasting happens. That barrel tasting — pulling wine directly from oak — is the detail that makes this Malbec experience different from the dozen other wineries in the region.

The whole visit is structured so you're not rushed, and the small-group format means the guide can actually answer questions instead of herding people through. You get to taste multiple wines across the different stages of production, which teaches you more than any single tasting room could. Bring an appetite for learning as much as for drinking; this isn't a casual sip-and-shop stop.

What’s included

Guided tour of Tierras Altas winery and vineyard, wine tastings from steel tanks at different fermentation stages, access to the underground cellar with oak barrels and aged bottles, and a formal tasting that includes sampling wine directly from the barrel. All tastings are included in the experience.

Good to know

Easy physical levelStroller friendlyInfant seats availablePublic transport nearby

Operated by Bodega Tierras Altas de familia Vargas Arizu

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to understand how Malbec is actually made rather than just taste the finished product — the progression through fermentation tanks and into the barrel cellar teaches you something you can't get from a standard tasting room.