Small in size, big in reputation, the Gimenez Riili winery is the culmination of a dream more than 70 years in the making. In 1945, Don Pedro Gimenez broke ground in Mendoza and today the project is under the management of his grandchildren: Pablo, Federico, and Juan Manuel. Ensconced in the Uco Valley, the winery is an unimposing cement structure surrounded by fields of...
From the outside looking in, Carmelo Patti is just another Italian-Argentinean man making wine in his garage. Most days of the week, he is here, at work in the stark cement warehouse-turned-winery, known as Bodega El Lagar, tucked away in the Luján de Cuyo region of Mendoza. The street outside is scarcely marked with a street sign, but the road is well-traveled by those...
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...
Founded in 1888, Italian immigrants planted the first seeds in the vineyards that would later grow to be a part of the Nieto Senetiner collection of wines. In the course of the following decade, the winery changed hands several times, and the Nieto Senetiner family acquired it in 1969. The winery itself is located in Vistalba area of Luján de Cuyo. However, Nieto vineyards...