Argentina Wine Tours: As Dear as the USA, All in Mendoza
Sixty listings, median 242 EUR, level with the USA and 57 reviews per tour. The country has more wine regions than we can sell.
Argentina is tied with the USA as the most expensive country on this site, at a median of 242 EUR per listing, and it has the fewest reviews per tour of all thirteen: 57, against 572 in Chile next door. All 60 of our Argentine listings are in Mendoza, which makes more than 60% of the country's wine, and 48 of them are private. That is a fair picture of where people buy, and a poor picture of the wine country. This page compares Argentina with the other twelve countries, says where the rest of its wine lives, and explains why those regions are not on the site as tours. For the tours themselves, go to Mendoza.
The page runs in four parts: price against the other countries, the regions beyond Mendoza, the grape, and the practical question of moving between regions. The numbers come from our own reading of the listings on 30 September 2026, and from Wikipedia for the geography. Nothing here is offered as a legal or safety ruling.
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Catena Zapata Winery and Casa Vigil Lunch with Private Driver from Your Hotel
A private driver connects the pyramid-shaped Catena Zapata winery, open to teens from 13, with a three-step lunch at Casa Vigil paired with Three Enemies wines.
Full-Day Maipú and Luján de Cuyo Wineries with Private Vehicle and Driver-Guide
A professional driver-guide and private vehicle link your pre-booked wineries in Luján de Cuyo and Maipú, with commentary in Spanish, Portuguese or English.
Full-Day Maipú Wine Tour: Trapiche, Santa Julia and Zuelo Olive Oil Lunch
A full day with a local guide: Trapiche's 1912 winery, Santa Julia wines, the Zuelo olive mill and a three-step Pan & Oliva lunch built around its oils.
Half-Day Maipú Tour: Three Wineries and an Olive Grove, All Tastings Included
Organic and sweet wines, plus olives, oils and preserves at an olive mill. Tastings at all four stops are included, and some wineries may swap by availability.
Huentala Wines Gualtallary Lunch: Group Shuttle from Mendoza with Wine Pairing
A shared shuttle from Mendoza City leads to a four-course lunch at Rastro, the estate restaurant with sculptures and 360° Andes views, with Gran Hat wines.
Luján de Cuyo Boutique Wine Tour with Peter Wine Tours and Family Producers
Small family wineries and hand-crafted Malbec with Peter Wine Tours, seen from the inside, with the Andes behind the vines in Luján de Cuyo, Argentina.
Luján de Cuyo Deluxe Full-Day Wine Tour: Caelum, Casarena and 6-Course Lunch
Three premium tastings in Agrelo and Perdriel, then a six-course lunch at Finca Minimal, a micro winery in a Malbec vineyard from 1905. Hotel transfers too.
Luján de Cuyo Wine Day with Clos de Chacras, Carmine Granata and Paired Lunch
Guides who favour wineries where the owner is around lead tastings and a paired lunch with wines, in English or Portuguese. Stops vary by availability.
Luján de Cuyo Wine Tasting: Benegas, Ruca Malen and Norton's Paired Lunch
Benegas wines with a cold-cuts picada, Ruca Malen with Andes views, then Norton's cellar, the largest in South America, and a multi-course paired lunch.
Luján de Cuyo Wine Tour: Caelum Tasting and Paired Lunch at Chandon
A Caelum tasting with winery pistachios, then a four-course lunch paired with Chandon sparkling wines, in Luján de Cuyo, the first wine area of Mendoza.
Maipú Afternoon Excursion: Three Wineries and an Olive Mill with Tastings
Three boutique wineries and one olive mill in Maipú, with at least three wines per cellar and olive oils with bread and preserves. Meets on Avenida Perú.
Maipú Private Wine Route: Finca Agostino, Sin Fin and an Olive Oil Boutique
Private full-day Maipú route from Mendoza airport: Sin Fin, Finca Agostino and an olive oil boutique, with sommeliers and a four-course wine-paired lunch.
Maipú Small-Group Wine, Olive Oil and Chocolate Tour with Florio and Vistandes
Small groups with a local guide and transfer from Mendoza city, ending with artisanal chocolate paired with regional wines at Chocolezza, after three wineries.
Maipú Small-Winery Day from Mendoza: Corbel, Esencia, El Cerno and Olive Grove
Three low-production Maipú wineries with at least three wines each, an olive grove, and a four-step Criollo lunch. Vegan and celiac options with notice.
Malbec Experience at Bodega Tierras Altas, Luján de Cuyo: Vineyards and Barrel Tasting
A boutique winery from 1999 with a walk through its vines, tastes straight from steel tanks and from the barrel in an underground cellar near Mendoza City.
Mendoza Custom Wine Tour: Vineyards, Mountain Views and Paired Lunch
A choose-your-own wine day in Mendoza that follows the grapes from harvest to marketing, with tastings among the vineyards and a lunch paired dish by dish.
Private 4x4 Uco Valley Wine and Mountain Day via Potrerillos Dam and Bousquet Lunch
A 4x4 ride on an unpaved mountain road through Valle de las Carreras, pickup at 10 am, two wineries and a five-course lunch with four wines, driver and guide.
Private Driver to Salentein Winery and Lunch at La Azul, Uco Valley, Mendoza
A private chauffeur collects you at your accommodation for a guided Salentein visit with four wines, then a three-course lunch with wine at Bodega La Azul.
Private Luján de Cuyo Sparkling Wine Tour: Chandon, Cruzat and Rosell Boher Lunch
Sparkling wine tastings at Chandon and Cruzat's underground cellar, then lunch at Rosell Boher, with hotel pickup at 9 am and a return to Mendoza around 5 pm.
Private Luján de Cuyo Tour: Chandon Sparkling Tasting and Sottano Barbecue Lunch
Three premium sparkling wines at Chandon, then a five-step Argentine barbecue-style lunch with wine at Sottano, on a private tour from your Mendoza hotel.
Private Luján de Cuyo Wine Day: Altieri, Susana Balbo and Sottano Lunch
Three wineries in Luján de Cuyo by private high-end vehicle, from the underground cellars at Altieri to a stepped lunch of about three hours with wine.
Private Luján de Cuyo Wine Day: Chandon, Budeguer and Lagarde, Michelin Lunch
Three private winery tastings in Luján de Cuyo, from sparkling wine to Malbec, with a Michelin Guide-listed lunch and round-trip transfers from Mendoza.
Private Luján de Cuyo Wine Day: Chandon, Kaiken and Bonfanti Lunch
A fully private transfer with a driver-guide who adapts the timing, two tastings at Chandon and Kaiken, and lunch at Bonfanti in Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza.
Private Luján de Cuyo Wine Day from Mendoza: Three Stops, Andes-View Lunch
Bilingual driver, hotel pickup, three stops among vineyards at 600 to 800 metres, and a winemaker's lunch with Andes views. Out at 9:00, back about 5:00 p.m.
Ratings collected by Viator, Tripadvisor and Civitatis
Argentina wine tours among thirteen countries
Argentina's dot sits on top of the USA's at 242 EUR, with France just below at 232. Below them the field drops to Greece at 173 and then to a cluster between 108 and 143 EUR that holds Italy, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Portugal, South Africa, Spain and Chile. Only Georgia, at 82 EUR, is cheaper than Chile.
The shape of the bar matters as much as the dot. Argentina's middle half runs from 174 to 306 EUR, a narrow band. The USA's runs past 500 EUR, because Napa has private days at several times a group price. Argentina's band is tighter: the usual product is a car and a driver at a price between 200 and 300 EUR.
Argentina is as dear as the USA and less crowded with evidence. Fifty-seven reviews per tour is the lowest figure on the site.
| Country | Listings | Median price | Reviews | Reviews per listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina | 60 | 242 EUR | 3,426 | 57 |
| USA | 60 | 242 EUR | 13,754 | 229 |
| Canada | 44 | 126 EUR | 4,055 | 92 |
| Chile | 40 | 108 EUR | 22,870 | 572 |
Chile is the instructive contrast. Its listings cost less than half, carry more than six times the reviews, and one operator holds 49% of them. Argentina's is a market of many small sellers: 33 operators for 60 listings, and the largest, Adora Mendoza, holds 14% of the reviews. See the Chile page and the USA page for the other two.
Why the whole country is one destination
We read the providers' catalogues in September 2026 and kept the wine tours that have at least three reviews and a rating of 4.0 or better (for Civitatis, 8 out of 10). That gave 154 Argentine tours. Mendoza has 120 of them, which is 78%. The other 34 are spread over four places, and none of them has enough tours to fill a page of its own.
| Place | Tours | Median price | What they sell |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mendoza | 120 | 202 EUR | Bodega visits, full days with lunch, private cars |
| Buenos Aires | 16 | 73 EUR | Nine tastings in the city and seven day visits to bodegas and estancias outside it |
| Salta and Cafayate | 10 | 43 EUR | Long days of scenery with one or two bodegas |
| Córdoba | 7 | 139 EUR | Few tours, good ratings |
| San Juan | 1 | 73 EUR | A single tour with six reviews |
| Patagonia | 0 | None found | No tour that met our rule |
Salta and Cafayate: the high vineyards, and a day that is mostly road
The north-west has the country's highest wine. Wikipedia puts the vineyards around Cafayate at about 1,660 m, and Bodega Colomé has plots at 2,250 and 3,000 m. The white grape here is Torrontés, and the region also grows red varieties. It is a real wine region, and it is also the place where a wine tour is least a wine tour.
We found ten Cafayate tours, with 1,631 reviews between Salta and Cafayate at 4.67. The best known, a tour to Cafayate from Salta, has 507 reviews. The long days of around twelve hours are mostly the road through the Quebrada de las Conchas, with one or two bodegas on the way, and in three titles the word wine does not appear. The median price is 43 EUR. They are not a category on the site: ten tours are too few for a page, and the wine is the smaller part of what they sell.
Patagonia, San Juan and the regions without a tour
Patagonia is the south of the map: Río Negro and Neuquén grow cool-climate grapes, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, and supply many of the grapes for Argentina's sparkling wine, according to Wikipedia. We found no wine tour there that met our rule, so there is nothing to list, and we would rather say that than fill the page with a region we cannot sell.
San Juan, north of Mendoza, is the second-largest producer, with more than 47,000 hectares planted in 2003 on the same source. We found one tour, with six reviews. If you are choosing where to spend your time, the honest order is Mendoza for the choice and the infrastructure, Salta for altitude and scenery, and the rest by appointment with a local operator.
Malbec, and why the question is bigger than one grape
Malbec is French in origin. It came to Argentina in the nineteenth century, when Domingo Sarmiento had Miguel Aimé Pouget bring vines, and it is now the grape people associate with the country. The date 1853 is repeated online and we could not confirm it, so we do not print it. What is firm is that Mendoza makes more than 60% of Argentina's wine and that Wikipedia ranks the country fifth among the world's producers.
Malbec is also not the whole country. Torrontés in Salta and Pinot Noir in Patagonia are separate stories, and the tours we sell touch only Mendoza. The Mendoza page has the dates, the Vendimia and the map.
When to go
Only Mendoza has tours on this site, so it is the only row.
| Month | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MendozaThe harvest runs from late January to April, with the Vendimia at the end of February and the start of March. Bodegas stay open all year. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
Harvest window from a wine-travel guide and the provincial tourism board. Regions without tours are not shown rather than guessed.
Which region for whom
Put the regions side by side and the choice makes itself. Mendoza, at a median of 202 EUR across 120 tours, is the trip built around wine. Buenos Aires, at 73 EUR, is for a traveller with an evening and no wish to leave the capital: nine of its sixteen tours are tastings in the city. Salta and Cafayate, at 43 EUR, are for someone whose real interest is the landscape and who is happy to visit a bodega or two on the way. Córdoba and San Juan are too thin to recommend on a count of tours.
Within Mendoza the three pages differ more than the regions do. Luján de Cuyo and Maipú carry 2,253 reviews at 4.85, the Uco Valley 901 at 4.89, and the private page only 272 at 4.60. Most of the evidence that supports the country's 4.84 sits in the cheapest listings, not in the private days that define the average price.
Where visitors start
Searches for Mendoza wine tours begin in two other cities, Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile. That is why the distances matter: Mendoza is 1,037 km from the first and 380 km from the second, and neither is a day trip. A wine day in Mendoza starts with a night in Mendoza.
Moving between regions
Argentina is large, and our tours do not link its regions. Mendoza is 1,037 km from Buenos Aires, and the flight takes under two hours. The road to Santiago de Chile is 380 km, and the bus takes six to seven hours. Salta, Cafayate and Patagonia are separate trips, not stages of a wine route. A sensible plan is one region at a time, with Mendoza as the core and a flight in and out.
We print no figure for the alcohol limit on Argentine roads. We have not confirmed the current position in Mendoza, or in any other province, against the law itself, and a wrong number is worse than none. The practical rule is the same under any limit: the person tasting should not be driving, which is one reason eight in ten of the tours we list are private.
Questions about Argentina wine tours
Where is Malbec from?
It is a French grape, brought to Argentina in the nineteenth century. Mendoza makes more than 60% of Argentine wine, and most Malbec tours are in Mendoza. The Mendoza page has the detail.
Is Argentine wine only Mendoza?
No. Salta and Cafayate have some of the highest vineyards in the world, Patagonia grows cool-climate Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, and San Juan is the second-largest producer. Only Mendoza has enough tours to list.
Why are Argentine wine tours as dear as the USA's?
Because 48 of the 60 listings are private, and private prices are usually for the booking. The median of 242 EUR mixes those with per-person group tickets, so read it as the cost of a day, not of a person.
Can I do a wine tour from Buenos Aires?
In the city, yes: we counted nine tastings. For the big wine country you travel to Mendoza, 1,037 km away, by a flight of under two hours.
Are there wine tours in Salta?
Yes, ten that we found, mostly long scenic days with a bodega stop, at a median of 43 EUR. They are not on this site because the wine is the smaller part of the day.
How many reviews do Argentine tours have?
3,426 across 60 listings, or 57 per listing, the lowest on the site. A high rating here often rests on very few reviews, so look at the count.
Go to the tours
The only Argentine destination on the site, and the wine countries next door.
Plan your trip
Guides that apply to this destination.
Choose your wine region
Pick a region by the city you start from, and compare the ones that sit close together.
When to go
A month-by-month climate matrix for 28 wine destinations, with the harvest windows we could verify.
Plan your wine tour
Nine decisions in order: tour or car, booking, what to wear and what to check on a listing.
Data verified on. Prices and reviews read from the listings of all 13 countries on 30 September 2026. Regional counts from our September 2026 reading of providers; geography from Wikipedia.