High-end adaptations of local cuisine.

Address:
1188 Calle Belgrano
Mendoza
Argentina

Phone:
54-261-424-2698

The dramatic winery was built to resemble a Mayan temple.

Address:
J. Cobos s/n
Mendoza
Argentina

Phone:
54-261-413-1100

Owner and enologist José Luis Mounier worked 18 years at Bodegas Etchart, Salta’s largest producer, before planting grapes on a slope he’d cleared. He has Malbec and Cabernet Sauvignon, and the brutishly tannic Tannat, but his best wine is white, a floral but flinty Torrontés. It might seem strange that a white grape would... More thrive near the Tropic of Capricorn, but Salta mitigates its latitude with altitude. Still, its grapes get very ripe, and sugar translates into alcohol. Somehow, Mounier manages to keep his Torrontés balanced and lithe, smelling of rose petals.

Address:
El Divisadero
Salta
Argentina

Phone:
54-386-842-2129Less

Winemaker Michel Rolland has created superb Malbec and Cabernet blends at this boutique Argentinian winery.

Address:
Provincial Route 2, Km 6
Cafayate
Argentina

Phone:
54-387-431-9439

Located in the Uco Valley, this strikingly modern winery complex founded by a Dutch tycoon, includes a lavish art museum and a gift shop that sells a $750 set of wine aromatics in thimble-size vials.

Address:
Ruta 89, Los Arboles, Tunuyán
Mendoza
Argentina

Phone:
54-114-131-1100

Accessible only by a dirt road and set in the midst of a working vineyard, the hotel has contemporary casitas, the walls of which are rounded like mushrooms, and provocative art fills its public spaces. Dine alfresco on beef empanadas and grilled lamb and drink the Argentinean wines.

Address:
Ruta Nacional 7, Alto Agrelo, ... MoreLuján de Cuyo
Mendoza
Argentina

Phone:
54-261-410-6927Less

The hotel, on 96,000 acres, is the choice for isolated luxury. The television-free rooms are surrounded by fields of lavender and 150-year-old vines.

Address:
Km 20, Ruta Provincial 53
Molinos, Salta
Argentina

Phone:
54-386-849-4200

The best restaurant in the city of Salta.

Address:
Necochea 590
Salta
Argentina

Phone:
54-387-421-1628

The hotel is part of the Vistalba winery, across from La Bourgogne restaurant.

Address:
3531 Calle Roque Saenz Peña, Luján de Cuyo
Mendoza
Argentina

Phone:
54-261-498-9400

Plates of local ham and house-made sausages at an informal roadhouse in the Uco Valley.

Address:
Km 14, Ruta 92
Tunuyán
Argentina

Phone:
54-262-249-2053

Easily the city’s finest hotel, this whitewashed, seven-floor building has a restored Spanish neoclassical exterior, a colonial–era inner courtyard with gurgling fountain, a newly expanded gym and spa space, and a privileged position on downtown’s Plaza Independencia. The traditional façade is just that. Inside its rotating... More glass doors, however, the modernity and efficiency that defines the Hyatt brand reveal themselves, most immediately in the huge digital-art piece by Fernando Hocevar that greets visitors in the lobby. The 186 unfussy, sleekly appointed rooms and suites—which look onto either the Andes foothills or the hotel’s expansive gardens—are also decorated with photographs and sculptures by local artists. King-size beds are afluff with plush feather pillows and lavish duvet (a pleasure on those cold Andean nights), and the 100-square-foot bathrooms make generous use of marble and glass.

Address:
1124 Calle Chile
Mendoza
Argentina

Phone:
(888) 591-1234Less

The hotel consists of two stories of dark wood and stucco, built around a courtyard and filled with hundred-year-old furniture.

Address:
Rutas Nacionales 40 & 68, Cafayate
Salta
Argentina

Phone:
(800) 325-3589

A bottle store in a restored mansion.

Address:
898 Chile
Mendoza
Argentina

Phone:
54-261-420-2840