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...
Located in the Salta Province of Argentina, El Porvenir Winery is located just a few blocks from the Cafayate central plaza. The name literally translates to “The Future,” but this family owned and operated winery somehow manages to blend state-of-the-art winemaking techniques with a great respect for the traditions of a region just beginning to make a name for itself. Everything about the winery...
Looking in through the windows of this white house on the corner, you’d probably think you had stumbled upon an elegant dinner party. Just on the other side of the stained glass window, wine glasses are clinging and gorgeous entrees are being swept out of the kitchen and onto dinner tables. A prominent Mendoza restaurant, Ocho Cepas feels like a luxurious evening spent in...
The serpentine streets and gravel alleyways that lead to the MMPascual studio would certainly qualify as Robert Frost’s road less traveled. The studio is tucked within the folds of a residential neighborhood in one of Mendoza’s affluent suburbs, but not a single street sign nor trail of art scraps exists to signal that artists are hard at work nearby. For two sisters, Marcela and...
As the weather warms up in Mendoza the air starts to fill with a smoke and in Argentina, where there´s smoke, there´s Asado. Asado is the famed Argentine Barbeque, the country’s preferred food group, pastime and art form all rolled into one. A variety of meat cuts are seasoned, and cooked over fiery red coals and an open-air grill. Here’s what you need to...