Winemakers

One of many great pleasures of our trip to Argentina was visiting with winemakers. Tasting their wines was, of course, great fun, but more interesting was meeting the winemakers and winery owners to learn their views on the wine industry in Argentina and how each particular winemaker sees his or her place in that industry.

Anabelle Sielecki is an amazing woman: architect, real estate executive, and co-owner of Mendel. We spoke with winemaker/co-owner Roberto de la Mota in Mendoza and had a chance to meet with Anabelle in Buenos Aires at the cafe outside of the MALBA museum.

We also met with Guillermo Banfi, owner of Bodega Sur de los Andes. During a fabulous lunch at Don Julio, we tasted Guillermo's excellent wines, which paired well with the sausage, provoleta, beef steaks, arugula salad, and tomatoes. Like Anabelle (and other winery owners) Guillermo entered the wine business after another career, finance, in his case.

 

Note: we are actually back at home now but we have several more Argentina experiences to share, which we will do here. So stay tuned. And, we will be traveling to Italy later this year and will share those experiences here also.