In the Tupungato region of Uco Valley, along the popular Ruta 98 sits a boutique winery, so humbly nestled into the landscape that you´d miss it if you weren´t paying attention. In a neighborhood of giants – Andeluna Winery, Salentein, and Jean Bousquet – La Azul is the David to their Goliath. With a cement-walled winery roughly the size of a spacious garage, it...
After working in some of Mendoza´s finest restaurants, including La Bourgogne and Azafrán, Pablo Ranea has a new project: Pirca Food & Wine, a pop-up, closed-door, traveling food & wine experience. That may sound like a lot to handle, but to Pablo is the kind of Chef who prefers to stay on his toes. As with most of life´s winding roads, experiences only connect...
Once a big-city chef navigating the hustle of Buenos Aires, Chef Mun Kim came to Mendoza to offer a unique food & wine experience based on the fusion of flavors from the East & West. Today Chef Mun, along with his business partner Cary Gilbert, manage Mun Restaurant at Casarena Winery, a culinary fusion of Asian & Argentine food & wine. Along with a...
Visitors to Pulenta Estate winery find different things to praise. Some are enchanted by the dramatic, glass-walled tasting room overlooking towering stacks of oak barrels, and others swoon for the outdoor patio with panoramic Andean views. But the image that will surface in my mind when I shuffle through my memories of Pulenta Estate, is a small dark room, tucked away on the basement...
Winter and summer months are high season for vineyard workers: they prune extra shoots that have long since turned brittle, tie canes to support wires, and prevent the luscious green canopy from turning into full-blown jungle madness. During these months hours of neck-kinking, meticulous labor are invested in grooming the plants. But springtime is another story. As the winter chill dissipates, the vine reawakens. ...