Guided Food Tours in Puerto Madryn
Patagonian wine you won't find in Mendoza
Most visitors to Argentina taste wine in Mendoza — big, sun-baked Malbecs grown at altitude. Patagonia makes something entirely different, and almost no one talks about it.
The vineyards of the Río Negro Valley, roughly two hours from Puerto Madryn, sit at the world's southernmost wine latitudes. The cold nights, intense wind, and long growing season produce wines with a precision Mendoza can't replicate: leaner Malbecs, bright Pinot Noirs, and aromatic whites that taste more like Burgundy than Buenos Aires. Bodegas like Humberto Canale — Argentina's oldest Patagonian winery, founded in 1909 — have been making them for over a century with almost no tourist footfall.
Further south, the Chubut Valley is even more extreme: a handful of producers growing Pinot Noir and Chardonnay in near-desert conditions at 45° south latitude.
On our Puerto Madryn food tours, we include tastings from both regions — poured alongside Patagonian lamb and king crab, the way the winemakers themselves eat them.
