This past week, I went to the province of Mendoza with Gina. We travelled there by overnight bus and visited a few bodegas and drank "mucho vino".
And we had to go up to the Andes while there. We took a tour bus that made a few stops and went as far as the border crossing with Chile & Argentina. It was so ruggedly beautiful up there. We even saw some wild horses; they would have to be quite hardy to survive in such a place; Mendoza is a desert and vegetation is mostly just scrub. All the bodegas depend on irrigation to bring the water from the Andes down to the grapes.
I have put some of the photos up on Flickr
I have more to say about Mendoza shortly (promises, promises)