Top Things to do in Mendoza
The 10 Best Budget-friendly Things to do in Mendoza, Cuyo
Known best for its wine, Mendoza is a bustling city to the east of Mount Aconcagua, the highest peak in the Western Hemisphere. Although it draws its share of adventure travelers, lured by the climbing, skiing, hiking and rafting opportunities within an easy drive of downtown, the area’s more than 1,000 vineyards bring oenophiles in even greater numbers.
Restaurants in Mendoza
1. Bodega Renacer
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 660 reviews
Bodega Renacer is a boutique, modern and eco-friendly winery built in 2004 at the foothills of the Andes Mountains, more specifically in Perdriel, Lujan de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina. The winery's architecture and landscape mixes a fusion between classic and modern style with Tuscan-inspired walls to provide a highly attractive and unique building which has been recognized and awarded as one of the most beautiful wineries in Mendoza. In 2006 the winery got one of it's wines listed in the famous Wine Spectator Top 100 wines of the world. In regards to Tourism, the winery puts all of it's effort to create unique, innovative and memorable experiences for their visitors. Recently, the winery has received the following Awards by "Great Wine Capitals - Best of Mendoza Wine Tourism": 1. Gold Medal - Best Innovative Experiences 2017 (Virtual Reality) 2. Gold Medal - Best Small Winery 2016 3. Silver Award - Excellence in Art & Culture 2015 (Barrique Painting) 4. Silver Award - Excellence in Architecture & Landscape 2014
Reviewed By femaletravellerk - New York City, United States
I went to Renacer on a private tour and had a great experience. The guide at the site was a friendly, smiling woman who showed me and two other visitors their cellars and landscaped grounds as well as vineyards, and also sat down with me for a tasting of three of their wines. It was a memorable experience in a beautiful setting.
2. Los Pingos Horse Riding
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5.0 based on 519 reviews
We believe in equestrian tours as a way to know a wonderful animal, the horse, and at the same time to interact with our culture, the gaucho life in the mountain and other people of the world.We like to share our traditions through the guitar and singing around the bonfire after a delicious “asado”.Activities:½ day - Full day - Sunset - Full Moon
Reviewed By Southmansion - Saint Louis, United States
Had a great experience with Los Pingos! We selected the sunset horseback ride with BBQ following and wow...gorgeous setting! Our guide was excellent (took some cool photos for us!) and the meal following the ride was quite tasty! The price was very reasonable for the long horseback ride, food and drink, and transfer service. Highly recommend!
3. Bodega La Azul
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5.0 based on 1,005 reviews
Reviewed By 790henryk
After 2 weeks in hectic Buenos Aires, we embarked on a degustation tour around the lovely city of Mendoza - west of B.A., and near the Chilean border. But after a while, we staled with the constant presentation of haute-cuisine, personality-free restaurants, and were then driven by our sympathetic and knowledgeable guide, Xavier, to La Azul Winery, in the famous Uco Valley. Bingo!! Real food at last! Delicious Choripan (the genius who invented this simple snack, used for every conceivable occasion possible, should be given a medal). It's Chorizo sausage sliced and barbecued, in a bread bun, with the famous Chimichurri sauce - the rightful ambrosia of South America. Then follows the asado (main course barbequed meats) - scrumptious! And then there's the wine - Mendoza is world-renowned for it's 900 wineries in the area, and especially for the gorgeous wines made from the red Malbec grape variety. La Azul makes several wines, but notably their Cabernet-Malbec flagship blend, and an outstanding unoaked pure Malbec (this is a must try!). Well, with all that terrific food and excellent wine down the hatch, and an unyielding eyeful of those stunning, snow-capped Andes Mountains, you feel a lot closer to your god - an everlasting experience. La Azul is a simple winery: easy to drive past. But search among the plainness carefully, and you will find gold. For us, just this single experience, with all else to see in Argentina, is the one that's most fondly remembered.
4. Bodega Cruzat. Bubbles Experience
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5.0 based on 363 reviews
Cruzat is a winery intended only for the production of quality sparkling wines, produced using the traditional method or "champenoise" (second fermentation in the bottle). The winery was founded in 2004 by a group of Chilean businessmen and by Argentinian Agricultural Engineer and Winemaker Pedro Federico Rosell. WINE TOURISM The experience of knowing this "factory of sparkling" goes beyond a tour and tasting. From the winery we strive for visitors to learn, identify and compare with other elaborations and process. The production area is open to our curious visitors; you can see and sometimes work at the cellar, the disgorging machine and label some bottles. The tasting room is oriented to the Andes Mountain and vineyards. We propose that our visitors enjoy and learn from what we do every day.
Reviewed By Navigate45408048460
We enjoyed our host and her guidance throughout the manufacturing process as well as her final presentation of the products
5. Bodega Familia Cassone
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5.0 based on 116 reviews
The family-owned winery of Argentina
Reviewed By FlipFlopTheBeachCat - Placencia, Belize
Our tour by Ampora Wine Tours started at Cassone. The winery tour was great and they seemed to use the interests of our group to focus on the aspects that were most interesting to us. After tasting four of their wines we were super impressed with their operation and passion for their work. A+!
6. Bodega Roberto Bonfanti
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 1,354 reviews
Reviewed By JosephpaBoston - Boston, United States
This small winery with a stellar restaurant is my favorite in the area. You can book a tour of the operation and taste their fine wines. And do not miss having lunch while you are there. The food is exquisitely presented and so delicious. The best meal I had in Mendoza!
7. Bodega Tierras Altas
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5.0 based on 1,010 reviews
Tierras Altas is boutique winery, own by the "Vargas Arizu Family", part of the Arizu Family, one of the founders of Argentinian Vitiviniculture. Four generations working on the vineyards transforming daily effort in wine culure. We invite you to live our "Malbec Experience Tour" and get to know our wines, winery , people and main varietal in a different and fun way. Wew suggest you, make the reservation 48hs before.
Reviewed By 174stuartl
This little gem was a great experience even with my 2 kids. We arrived and had lunch with the most amazing food and wine at a very good price. The man servering us (Daniel) was able to explain in Spanish and English and gave great attention to our kids and took them to feed the fish in the pond they have. His service was outstanding. After a quick lay in the hammocks outside then off to a wonderful tour with Freddie who's English was very good and the tour was so informative. Nothing was too much and they even called taxis for us to get home. Super recommendable ..
8. Bodega Carmelo Patti
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5.0 based on 461 reviews
Reviewed By MFD15
We were lucky enough to be introduced to this gentleman and his wine in 2017. Tonight, we celebrated a milestone but sadly finished the last bottle we brought back from our trip. The whole experience of visiting Bodega Carmelo Patti proved to be one of the greatest highlights on the best vacation we've ever taken. Carmelo is authentic, earnest, and friendly. He crafts incredible wine that tastes all the better because you feel like he's an old friend and that you're part of his family within minutes of arriving. This is a spot worth seeking out if you're in or near Mendoza, and if you enjoy wine, look for a bottle wherever you can find it. You won't be disappointed.
9. Bodega Budeguer
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 257 reviews
Reviewed By JorgeM6946 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
This winery was really upfront and fast to set up agendas. Mayra and Ney make this a very special place! They are very supportive and friendly. The wines are amazing and if we compare to grand wineries I can assure you that it won’t lack quality at all! Actually it is much more interesting to visit them than major brands that you can find all over the world!
10. Bodega Piattelli - Agrelo
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5.0 based on 79 reviews
We invite you to enjoy the “PIATTELLI EXPERIENCE”, at the true landscape of Mendoza. We offer the unique experience to learn from two of the most successful winemaking regions in Argentina: Agrelo in Mendoza and Cafayate in Salta.
Reviewed By KatiDop - Lima, Peru
We enjoyed a great tour of the winery and a tasting of some amazing bottles. What we liked most was the informative host - we could see how the wine is made from harvest to bottle and than taste the wines while the host explained the differences between various wines. The site was beautiful and the view was great!
