I took a tour called 'Bikes and wine', which as you might guess, involves hopping on a bike and riding between 8 different vineyards, tasting wine the entire way. As you might also hypothesize, the ride back to the starting point was a drunken debacle.

Whoever invented this tour is brilliant, as it is, by far, the most popular tour in Mendoza**. It was started within the last year, and the company's infancy must be the reason there have yet to be any 'car-hitting-bike' related casualties. The 10AM tour starts off at a shack with a 14 year old boy giving you a bike and a map the size of a business card. He then points in a northerly direction, tells you to be back by 6pm, and off you go to negotiate the skinny roads, oncoming traffic and gallons of fermented fruits.

The first few Vineyards included manufactures of wine, hard liquor and booze laced chocolates, and then we proceeded to an Olive Oil Vineyard to have lunch and a bottle of wine per person. This was followed by 5 kilometers of bike riding between the next 4 Vineyards, and then a massive 10 Kilometer stretch back to the shack, which, due to an afternoon changing of the guards, was attended by a 90 year old man with minimal need for a toothbrush, as teeth are typically a prerequisite.

Other than my chain getting jammed on the ride back in front of an enclosed property with three Rottweilers on the other side of the fence taking turns attacking the fence trying to tear my inebriated body apart, the day was fun, safe and full of last year's grapes.

**I don't know this to be fact, but it should be.