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A dirt road between poplars, in the Valle de Uco, Mendoza

Days

A whole day in one sub-region.

From morning to late afternoon, two houses and a long lunch within a single sub-region. Private, in a small group, with the producer at the table when he is in the cellar.

How a day works

  1. We collect you from your hotel in the morning, with a driver who knows the region’s dirt roads. The drive to the first house is part of the day, and there is time to stop where the view asks for it.

  2. The first visit is a long one. There is time to walk the vineyard before the heat, go into the cellar and taste sitting down, with no other group waiting for the room. When the producer is on the estate, he leads it himself.

  3. Lunch takes the centre of the day and has no closing time. You eat where the kitchen belongs to the house, with its own wines open on the table and the table booked the day before.

  4. After coffee, a second house, smaller, chosen for the contrast with the first. The return to the hotel is in the late afternoon, and anyone who wants to carry on to dinner will find a table already booked.

A board of breads, spreads and olive oil on a table outdoors, the garden behind
The opening board at Casa Vigil, Mendoza.
A private vaulted stone room, with a round mosaic table laid for a tasting
The private room in the Salton cellar, in Bento Gonçalves.

Combining days

Each day stands on its own, and two in a row already change the subject, with the Valle de Uco one day and Maipú the next, or Pinto Bandeira and then the Vale dos Vinhedos. When days add up, we adjust the base and the order of the houses, so that no road is repeated.

A glass of red on a wooden table, facing vine terraces on a Priorat hillside
Vine terraces seen from the table, in Priorat.

Where

One sub-region per day, in the four regions where we already have houses that receive us.

  • Argentina

    Mendoza

    Valle de Uco, Luján de Cuyo and Maipú. An hour and a half separates the highest from the oldest.

    See the region

  • Portugal

    Alentejo

    From Évora, within an hour’s drive, the day can be spent in Reguengos, in Borba and Redondo, or in Vidigueira.

    See the region

  • Brasil

    Vale dos Vinhedos

    Vale dos Vinhedos, Pinto Bandeira and Garibaldi, within thirty kilometres, with Bento Gonçalves as the base.

    See the region

  • Espanha

    Penedès & Priorat

    The Penedès is forty minutes from Barcelona. Priorat and Montsant are two hours away, further inland, and call for an early start.

    See the region

Each day is named after its place, such as A day in the Valle de Uco or A day in Pinto Bandeira.

Tell us the date and the region.

Tell us when you will be in the region, where you are staying and how many of you there are, and we will reply with the shape of the day.

Request a day

Prices on request.