Mendoza, Argentina- Wine, olives, chocolates, OH MY!

21Sep10

Just a few short hours after the Argentina game, we head out onto the bus for our winery,olive oil factory and candy/chocolate/liquor making factory tour.  I’m STOKED!!  Candy AND wine, JACKPOT!!  The first wine tour was of a facility a few miles out of town in a modern, factory looking facility.  They had barrels that date back more than 30 years.  We got to test the wine and even brought a bottle home with us. 

Next stop was the olive oil processing factory.  Not my favorite place on Earth.  Reason: olives are one of the ONLY foods that I will not eat.  GROSS!  Needless to say, this was interesting, but not my favorite tour.  It was cool to see how they hand-pick each of the olives and process the entire fruit and recycle all pieces for compost and such, but it’s time for the next tour.  The next stop was an old, antique and organic wine.  Pretty impressive!  It’s kind of amazing the kinds of things they have to do to protect their grapevines and store them in certain containers to be totally organic.  Another taste test, and another bottle comes home with us.  That was GOOD stuff!!

Last stop on the total tour was the chocolate factory and liquor making facility.  I felt like a little kid in the…uh….candy store?!  No but really, this place was AWESOME!!!  They made their own chocolates and small candies, along with canned peppers and jellies and YUM!  And they even let us taste some of the chocolately liquor goodness!  It’s amazing that I made it out of there without maxing out my credit card.  Honestly!

The ride back to the hostel was LOOOONG!  And with the late night previous and the game and touring and wine and all day, it was DEFINITELY time for a nap.  A few hours later, Adam and I were back on the town, searching for grub and a good time.  Mendoza treated us well.  Good times, good times.

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