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Mendoza wine region

Argentina Mendoza Mendoza

Mendoza wine region
Photo: Walter Schärer, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Argentina's main wine region, at the foot of the Andes, famous for Malbec. Cycle between wineries in Maipú or tour the Uco Valley's modern bodegas.


The road west leads to Aconcagua, the highest mountain outside Asia, 6,961 m, with a viewpoint at Horcones.

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