6 wine festivals, harvest celebrations, and food-and-wine events — with dates, tickets, and travel tips.
Festivals worth planning a trip around.
A week-long folk music festival in the high-altitude wine town of Cafayate, celebrating the Torrontés grape and Salta's folk traditions. Top Argentine folk musicians perform nightly in the main plaza, while bodegas offer tastings of their aromatic whites and Malbecs. The desert-mountain scenery at 1,700m altitude is breathtaking.
View festival detailsMendoza's annual open-cellar event where 80+ wineries across Maipú, Luján de Cuyo, and the Uco Valley open their doors for special tastings, asado barbecues, and live music. Winery-to-winery transport is organised, making it easy to explore multiple bodegas in a single day. Malbec takes centre stage.
View festival detailsMendoza's annual open-cellar event where 80+ wineries across Maipú, Luján de Cuyo, and the Uco Valley open their doors for special tastings, asado barbecues, and live music. Winery-to-winery transport is organised, making it easy to explore multiple bodegas in a single day. Malbec takes centre stage with reserve pours not normally available to visitors.
View festival detailsArgentina's greatest harvest festival and the largest wine celebration in the Americas. A week of parades, concerts, and cultural events culminates in the spectacular Acto Central — an outdoor theatre performance with thousands of performers, fireworks, and the crowning of the Harvest Queen. Over half a million people attend.
View festival detailsThe frontier wine regions of Río Negro and Neuquén celebrate their Malbec, Pinot Noir, and Torrontés at a growing winter harvest festival in the Patagonian steppe. Held across bodegas in San Patricio del Chañar and Neuquén, the event combines wine tasting with spectacular Andean desert landscapes and glacial river scenery impossible to find anywhere else in the wine world.
View festival detailsAll 6 festivals organised by month.
Time your visit for the second week when the main performers arrive—the first week attracts regional acts. Visit Bodega Nanni and Bodega Piattelli during off-hours for intimate tastings; they pour rare aged Torrontés variants unavailable commercially. Altitude acclimatization matters; arrive 2 days early.
Book the organized transport passes days ahead—they sell out and individual navigation is challenging. Prioritize lesser-known bodegas in Luján de Cuyo's Perdriel section like Rolland or Susana Balbo over Achaval-Ferrer; the big names are mobbed and the small producers pour their experimental Malbecs only this weekend.
Bodegas Abiertas (Open Wineries Weekend)
The shuttle system between bodegas is essential — driving yourself means you can't drink, and taxis between remote bodegas are expensive. Achaval Ferrer and Clos de los Siete in Luján de Cuyo are high-prestige stops.
Fiesta Nacional de la Vendimia
Skip the public Acto Central (chaotic, 200,000+ people) and book a private winery dinner with tastings the same night—wineries orchestrate parallel harvest celebrations. Arrive 3 days early for the neighborhood parades, where locals actually taste wine; the final show is pure theatre, not wine-focused.
Patagonian Wine Festival (Alta Patagonia)
Bodega Fin del Mundo ('End of the World Winery') and NQN Bodega are the most visitor-ready. Combine with a trip to Villa La Angostura or Bariloche for lake district scenery.
Fiesta de la Vendimia de San Juan
San Juan's Valle de Zonda and Pedernal sub-regions produce increasingly acclaimed high-altitude wines — less famous than Mendoza but with similar quality potential. Anko and Finca Las Moras are standout producers.