Vineyards and the Andes at Salentein, Valle de Uco, Mendoza

Wine journeys, personally curated

The people who make the wine know us by name.

Mendoza, Alentejo, Vale dos Vinhedos, Penedès and Priorat. Wineries closed to the public, lunch at the producer’s house and time for the road.

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Through wine, to the place.

In Gualtallary, lunch begins at midday and the Andes close the far end of the table. The producer sits down with you and opens the bottles they want to show. The same table is waiting in the Alentejo and in the Vale dos Vinhedos. Our itineraries pass by those tables, with time for the road between one and the next.

Marcelo and Ludmilla Panadés seated outdoors, glasses in hand, facing a vineyard — Marcelo and Ludmilla, founders of Altivia.

Destinations

Four regions we call home.

Four regions where you reach the gate and someone is already waiting on the other side. Each itinerary begins in one of them.

Argentina
Mendoza
A desert that drinks the snow of the Andes and gives back Malbec.
Vineyards in Gualtallary, in the Valle de Uco, between 1,080 and 1,600 m above sea level.
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Portugal
Alentejo
Cork oaks, whitewashed houses and wine that still ferments in clay talhas.
Eight DOC sub-regions, from Portalegre in the hills to Moura on the Guadiana.
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Brasil
Vale dos Vinhedos
Basalt hills and the cooking of families who came from the Veneto.
The first Denomination of Origin for Brazilian wine, recognised in 2012.
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Espanha
Penedès & Priorat
Cava in the Penedès and, further inland, Garnacha on slate terraces.
Priorat is one of only two DOCa in Spain, alongside Rioja. The soil is llicorella, black slate.
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Closer to home

The Brazil that makes wine.

In the Vale dos Vinhedos, the country’s first Denomination of Origin, many wineries are still family-run, and traditional-method sparkling wine arrives at the table alongside the food of the house. Brazil enters our itineraries by the same route as Mendoza and the Alentejo, a short flight from São Paulo.

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In the hills of São Paulo and in Sul de Minas, double pruning ripens the grapes in the dry winter.

A copper pan of pasta and bacon, a bottle of Dal Pizzol red and a poured glass, on a wooden table — Pasta and red wine at Dal Pizzol, in Faria Lemos, Bento Gonçalves

The winemaker stays for coffee.

The tasting room is empty when you walk in, and it stays that way to the end. The visit was booked for a Tuesday, a day the house takes no visitors. Halfway through lunch, the winemaker comes up from the cellar with a bottle that was not on the list, and stays for coffee. No one asks what time it ends.

From a day to the whole journey

How to travel with Altivia

Days
A private day in one sub-region, with lunch at the centre of it and the producer at the table.
How a day works
Collections
Multi-day itineraries of our own making, one for each destination, with set dates and small groups. The houses and the pace are already chosen.
How they work
Bespoke
Half an hour of conversation is enough to draw the whole itinerary, made for you, from the pace to the table.
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Itinerary curation and Destination wedding, on the How it works page.

Founders

Marcelo and Ludmilla Panadés

The call that books your Tuesday lunch comes from the phone of one of the two. Marcelo spent thirty years in wine, first choosing labels by the hundred for a supermarket chain in Minas, later in vineyards across more than ten countries. Ludmilla runs the operation and follows the journeys closely. The e-mail you write reaches the same two people.

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