Nati Serre looks at the history of the Vendimia celebration from a local farmer’s daughter.

Having grown up in a grape farm, my life has been sort of always linked to Vendimia. That’s why I tend to remember major dates and events.

When I was a kid, the harvest of the grapes and the selling of the home-made wine was what got us by. So, when we actually harvested those precious grapes, which had survived the scarcity of water and the menace of hail, some sort of celebration was in order.

Want to maximise your time on dating and drinking wine? Luis Enrique takes a look at speed dating possibilities in Mendoza.

Over the last few years, the compelling blend of drink tasting and suitable ice-breaking events has proven to be quite an interesting way to meet someone to hang out with and share a nice conversation, thus making available the jumpstart usually needed when trying to find a date or merely make a friend practically from scratch.

They characterise almost the entire continent, leaving some people in awe and others in peril. There is no mountain range quite like the colossal Andes. Gwynne Hogan explores the legends and tales of the Andes near Mendoza.

Bribed by a glistening twenty ounces of gold, a lowly mail courier was convinced to do the impossible: cross the Andes from Mendoza to Santiago de Chile on foot in late autumn.