Mendoza and Cordoba

So after more than a year of seeing my friend Jessica, who arrived last year to Argentina a month before I did, except never left until December, where she went for 5 months to Brazil and then traveled back to Argentina recently, we were able to meet up and spend time again in Mendoza, Argentina. Mendoza was beautiful, by far the cleanest city in Argentina. The people are super friendly, and the landscape is amazing. Mendoza is the wine capital of South America, and is best known for the Malbec grape wines. We took a tour of 3 wineries, learned all about he process of wines, the proper way to taste, drink, hold a wine glass, and check to see weather the wine is good to drink or not by smelling the wine before drinking. It was great, we first visted the Belasco de Bosquendo winery, which is of a Spanish winery, who chose to put one winery in Argentina to make Malbec wine. The next winery we visted was Norton, the biggest winery in Argentina and the most famous. In comparison to the last, Bonfanti, a small family winery, which was a much personal experience, recieving the tour from the owner of the winery. The landscape was beautiful. Mendoza is a very dry, desert like region yet has the beauty of the snowcapped Andes mountain range as a backdrop. From Mendoza, our original plan was to visit Santiago de Chile, which technically was 6 hours away, however because of a snow storm, the pass across the Andes was closed for another week, so we decided to head to Cordoba. We went to Cordoba because I hadn't been since February of 2011, and it is where Jessica had been living, we stayed with a friend in his apartment and visited the main tourist attractions of Argentina's second city. Which seemed to be even more beautiful and clean than I had remembered it. Recenly got back to Buenos Aires, but very content with this awesome trip.