Wine and olive oil

We went on a wine and olive oil tour today! Obviously we had to since Mendoza is Argentina's best wine country! We went to two different wineries and a small olive oil factory.

The first winery was a very small family one. We did the tour of the factory and tried a Malbec and a Cabernet Sauvignon and a Syrah. They taught us about the colors of the wine (Malbec is ruby red while the others are more purple and the wine should never be brownish or orangey) and how to smell it.

Mommom and I really liked the Malbec and Carbernet so we those for ourselves and gifts. We couldn't find that wine anywhere else since the family doesn't export their wine.

We met a really hot Australian who was traveling around South America by himself... Mommom was into it and wanted me to go in for the attack. We made conversation but that was about it. His eyes were beautiful but honestly, Steve's are even bluer :)

Then we went to a bigger winery which I didn't like as much. It was holding a bunch of other tours and wasn't as family-oriented. The building was very modern looking with white walks, black trim, and tons of big windows. In this factory, they have great metal, temperature-controlled tubs for the wine to ferment in but the last winery had pools that were temperature controlled by pipes with cool water from the Mendoza river. The smaller winery also had their wine in barrels in a wine cellar gated off where the big winery had their barreled wine displayed behind glad for tourists.

There we tried a Malbec and a Cabernet Sauvignon. We liked the other place better so we didn't buy a bottle.

We then went to a small olive oil factory. The tour was brief but the taste testing was awesome!

We tried extra virgin, unfiltered extra virgin (more flavor but less clear because they don't filter out the olive pulp), garlic, bail, Rosemary and oregano olive oil and some olive pastes. They were all so good and we got those for gifts as well.

After we got home we ran our to get snacks, dinner and water for tomorrow from a grocery store. Then it was wine hour! Free wine for an hour at the hostel! We shared two bottles and had a great time swapping stories. We also ate the rest of our pizza we had for lunch and dulce de leche with banana on crackers for dinner. Oh! I forgot! While we were out for lunch, we stopped at a cool Indie/Bohemian store and Sam and I got awesome pants and wore them for wine tasting.

Bad news, when I was opening the door to put yogurt in the fridge for the next day, the fridge tipped and a half a handle of cheap Vodka shattered all over the floor at my feet and pants. It smelled terrible and I had to clean up all the glass and cheap Vodka with a mop...

I wrote a little note to the owner... RIP.