Discover Las Paredes: Wineries and Wine Culture

Las Paredes is best explored through its wineries: wine tours, different production profiles and the connection between wine and local gastronomy give the town several distinctive features. When planning, you can therefore consider more than just one winery. It also matters whether you are more interested in a walk through the vineyards, a tasting, a particular style of wine production or the history of a winery. This makes it possible to explore the local wine culture from several specific and distinct perspectives.

Wine Tours and Winery Visits

Bodega Iaccarini offers traditional, 50-minute tours through the vineyards. Of the tours mentioned, this one is specifically defined by its duration. The winery’s history includes its founding in 1903 by Don Pascual Iaccarini, an Italian immigrant, in the Las Paredes district. A visit therefore brings together a tour through the vineyards and a long history as a local winery.

Chaglasian Winery also opens its winery to offer a comprehensive visitor experience. At Bodega Bianchi, guided tours with wine tastings are available. Each has a different focus: Iaccarini offers a 50-minute vineyard tour, Bianchi offers tastings as part of a guided tour, and Chaglasian offers a comprehensive experience at the winery. When comparing visitor options, you can pay attention to each one’s particular focus rather than treating all wine experiences as the same.

From “vinos de autor” to sparkling wine

The wineries also have different production focuses. Chaglasian Winery produces wines in the “vinos de autor” category. Finca Las Payas is a small winery founded in 2005 by Santiago Salgado in the Las Paredes district. It makes artisanal wines in unique, limited batches. Chaglasian’s category and Finca Las Payas’s described production style offer two different perspectives on the local wines.

Bodega Bianchi makes sparkling wine in Las Paredes using the Champenoise method. Bodega Murville specializes in sparkling wines and frizzante. It is useful to distinguish between the production method and the product focus: Bianchi’s method is specified, while Murville’s specialities are sparkling wine and frizzante. Along with “vinos de autor” and limited batches, these illustrate a range of production characteristics without reducing the wineries to a single, uniform wine style.

Winery History and Local Gastronomy

Bodega Ultima Frontera is family-run and works using artisanal methods; its building is one hundred years old. Its wine tourism experiences pair its own wines with local gastronomy. This brings in another distinct aspect alongside wine production: the connection between wine and food. By comparison, the history of Bodega Iaccarini can be understood through its founding year, 1903, and its founder, Don Pascual Iaccarini. Finca Las Payas, in turn, is associated with its founding by Santiago Salgado in 2005. These details refer to different historical points: the founding dates of two wineries and the age of the building at Ultima Frontera.

More Places to Explore in the Department of San Rafael

The Department of San Rafael has other historical and landscape features that should not be attributed to Las Paredes. In front of the Museo Ferroviario stands locomotive 315, “La Constructora.” It was used during construction of the San Martín railway line and is considered an important relic of that era. This is a different historical perspective from the wineries’ histories: here, the focus is on railway construction and a preserved piece of technology.

The landscape also offers distinct attractions in the Department of San Rafael. The Cañón del Atuel was formed by erosion from the Río Atuel and wind over millions of years. The landscape around El Nihuil includes dunes up to 200 metres high; windsurfing and kitesurfing are possible on Lake El Nihuil. If you include the Department of San Rafael as a whole in your travel plans, you can distinguish Las Paredes’ wine experiences from regional topics such as railway history, landscapes and water sports.

Discover more destinations: Rincón Del Atuel, Rama Caída, Punta Del Agua, Salto De Las Rosas, El Nihuil, San Rafael, Pedro Vargas, El Sosneado.

For the broader travel overview: Department of San Rafael.