The Hostel Colonial receives more and more travelers interested to know the Cuyo region, the states of San Luis, Mendoza and San Juan. The mountains of San Luis have splendid landscapes, unpolluted nature and warm refuges far away from the masive tourism and the noise cities. Some of its attractions are the Conlara Valley, the historic old jesuitic ranches of La Estanzuela and the ecologic reserve in "Rincón del Este". The small city of San Luis still keeps its cozy colonial streets, beautiful churches and convent.
In Mendoza, one of the most atracctive touristic destinations nowadays in Argentina, the dry and sunny climate, its urban city layout with large and green streets, great parks and the flowers that adornate many of its streets give to the city an ellegant and calm caracteristic. Despite of that, with no doubt, most of the time, the people travel to Mendoza to know its wine routes, where the best argentinian wines are produced, added to a new invention of the local cuisine.
San Juan, on the other hand, is a modern city where there are no remains of the colonial years, due to the earthquake of 1944. Also known by its wine routes, with some old wineries and other modern ones. The Hostel Colonial recommends you to know "La Difunta Correa", one of the most spread pagan cult of Argentina that receives thousands of followers every year, and the Pie de Palo Mountains. San Juan has also amazing valleys and montain walls that round the state, known by the warm people of its small villages.
Argentine highlight: Malbec wine
The Hostel Colonial invites the lovers of a good argentinian wine to know a little bit of how a Mendoza Malbec winery works. The grape is harvested in early april, before the other varieties like the Cabernet Sauvignon, Tannat and Petit Verdot. The grape is harvested carefully in plastic boxes, to do not get damaged before going to the selection table. To make 1 bottle of a extrapremium wine it´s necessary 2 or 3 kg of grape. The correct time to harvest is decided by tasting the grapes in the wineyard and through laboratory analisis.
The factors that count in the quality control are the color, tannins, sugars and acidity of the fruit. The traditional irrigation in the wineyards of Mendoza is through furrows, the drip irrigation system is only used in the recent wineries. We have to consider how deep and and extended the wine roots are, in the loose and well drained soils of the region, besides of the good climate to the production. These are only some basic info to those who are interested in the subject. You must include a visit to a traditional Mendoza winery in your next trip to Argentina.
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