Mendoza, Argentina News

On a chilly, but bracingly clear Saturday afternoon three of us had a treat. It was at the Manor Restaurant at Waddesdon Manor where we were seated by attentive staff in a corner at a round table with views to the outside from the warmth of the inside.

Drive the streets of Buenos Aires, and you will see regal architecture that rivals wealthy European enclaves in Monaco or London.

Rodrigo Gimenez is not your average Santa Barbara chef. Technically speaking, he's not a chef at all, but a seasoned architect from Mendoza, Argentina, with a master's degree in historic-building restoration and a lifelong obsession with the culinary world, a man who slowly discovered that he preferred working in kitchens to designing them.

We spend a lot of time, figuratively speaking, in the foothills of the Andes, where Argentina's high and dry Mendoza region produces some of the world's most reliable wines, many of them value priced.

Lighting and set designer Eli Sirlin utilized over 120 Robe moving lights in his lighting scheme for the 2013 Festival Nacional de la Vendimia , a high profile world-renowned celebration of wine and the wine-making industry held in Mendoza, Argentina.

Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers out there! I received a reminder from friends at Gary's it is time to lay in some rosA©. This is an area in which one can find a wide selection of summer wine priced well under $20. I recently sampled a few delicious examples.

Davis' slide show will begin at 7:45 p.m. He will talk about the challenge of climbing the breathtaking terrain as well as the culture of Argentina.

With Memorial Day weekend around the corner, now's the time to pick up wines that are perfect for outdoor parties of any size.

When a small grapegrower in Argentina's LujA n de Cuyo district needed a kidney operation, his fellow farmers dipped into a shared fund to help pay for it.

A four-year-old boy was killed when a 32-inch TV fell on him at his home in San Martin, Mendoza.

The vinos at Vaca y Vino were provided by Republic National Distributing Company and Virtuoso Selections, a local business.

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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one opening before us.

EPAS, the water authority in western Argentina's city of Mendoza, has approved a tariff reduction as compensation for the water supply disruptions that affected the area earlier this year.

I atteneded the Malbec World Day celebration at City Winery last Sunday, April 21.

Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff assured during a joint conference with President Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner that she was certain the Vale mining company "would find a way to reach an agreement with the Argentine authorities." Even though she didn't make any specific announcement on the matter, the Brazilian head of state seemed in favour of ... (more)