Casa Vigil (El Enemigo) Wineries & Olive Oil Private Tour

Overview

A private, door-to-door wine day visiting two Mendoza wineries and an artisan olive oil producer, with an optional upgrade to a three-course lunch at Casa Vigil (El Enemigo), a Michelin-recognized winery restaurant.

A private vehicle and driver take you between two hand-picked wineries and a boutique olive oil producer, with time to stroll the vineyards between tastings — no fixed group schedule.

Highlights

• Two Mendoza Wineries Tour the vineyards and taste wines at two of the region's wineries, with your guide explaining the winemaking process along the way.
• Artisan Olive Oil Tasting Sample a selection of locally produced olive oils, a growing part of Mendoza's food culture alongside its wine.
• Optional Casa Vigil (El Enemigo) Lunch Upgrade to a three-course lunch at Casa Vigil, the Michelin-recognized restaurant run by winemaker Alejandro Vigil at his El Enemigo winery.

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About This Tour

A private, door-to-door wine day visiting two Mendoza wineries and an artisan olive oil producer, with an optional upgrade to a three-course lunch at Casa Vigil (El Enemigo), a Michelin-recognized winery restaurant. A private vehicle and driver take you between two hand-picked wineries and a boutique olive oil producer, with time to stroll the vineyards between tastings — no fixed group schedule.

El Enemigo, the winery behind the Casa Vigil lunch on this tour, began in 2007 as a joint project between Adrianna Catena — a historian and the youngest daughter of Nicolás Catena Zapata — and Alejandro Vigil, who has been head winemaker at Bodega Catena Zapata since 2002. The name itself, Spanish for "the enemy," is a deliberate reference to the enemy within: the winemaking philosophy behind it leans on minimal intervention, letting the vineyard's own high-altitude terroir south of Luján de Cuyo (roughly 930 to 1,470 metres above sea level) carry the wine rather than a heavy hand in the cellar.

Casa Vigil itself started far more modestly than its current reputation suggests — by the winery's own account, it grew out of family asados that Alejandro Vigil and his wife María Sance used to host for about 30 guests, cooking with produce from their own garden while Vigil poured his wines and chatted with the table. That informal start has since earned the restaurant Michelin Guide recognition with a star for its cooking and a separate green star for sustainable practice, which is why the optional upgrade on this tour is worth the extra stop for anyone who wants to see where that reputation came from.

Olive oil has a real, parallel history in Mendoza alongside wine — Spanish colonists brought the first olive saplings to the region not long after founding the city in 1561, and Maipú in particular is often described locally as the cradle of both the province's vineyards and its olive groves. Several of the area's producers, descended from the wave of European immigrant farmers who settled here in the late 1800s, still press oil from trees planted on land that has been in the same families for generations, which is the tradition this tour's artisan tasting draws on.

Because the day is built around two wineries plus this olive oil stop rather than a fixed single-winery program, your private driver can adjust the pace between tastings — there's no bus schedule or shared group to coordinate around, and the Casa Vigil lunch, when added, becomes the natural anchor for the afternoon rather than a rushed extra stop.