Zuccardi Winery

It was a beautiful day in Mendoza so we went to lunch at Zuccardi in Mapu. It was a 72 peso ride to the winery. The lunch was very good in a very nice dining room in the Vineyard. Zuccardi make very good and highly rated tempranillo. It also carrries a high price tag. We had a 2004 Q series at $130 peso. It was very good. Big Nose lots of fruit and vanilla Great mid pallett with bright tannins and a long smooth finish.

The lunch was very good but it was the standard Argentina Parrilla that you can get on every corner of Argentina. The did provide their lower label Santa Jullia with the meal but I have found their standard reds to be sub standard. The reserve and the whites are much nicer for the price point. The shocker was the bill $130. peso each. This type of meal is never over $45 peso anywhere in town. So, I have to say it is a tourista ripoff! But, we still had fun.

We moved into a new apartment. It is a very nice building, brand new, very fancy and clean. The best it is very quite. we could not sleep at the old place because of the traffice noise. We got a good deal, at $820 USD. We moved out of our old place and into here. I will send pictures later

On an off note: new place has new doors; got locked in Bathroom, could not get out Marie had to help get door open. The quality of Argentina workmanship is not the best by any means of the word.


Jeff