The Best Season for a Mendoza Elopement
High-desert wine country with four real seasons: the green summer vines, the golden harvest of autumn, and the snow-dusted Andes of winter. What each gives a vineyard day.
You plan Mendoza for your summer and arrive in its winter.
The Southern Hemisphere flips the calendar, and each season is a different vineyard.
Mendoza is high-desert wine country with four real seasons, and the vines look completely different in each.
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December through February is warm and dry, the vines lush and green against the mountains. Then comes the magic window: late February through April, the harvest, when the vines turn gold and red and the grapes come in during the vendimia. Autumn is the most photogenic and celebrated time in the valley.
Summer and the harvest
December through February is warm and dry, the vines lush and green against the mountains. Then comes the magic window: late February through April, the harvest, when the vines turn gold and red and the grapes come in during the vendimia. Autumn is the most photogenic and celebrated time in the valley.
Winter and the snow
June through August brings cold, clear days and fresh snow on the Andes behind the bare vines, a stark, dramatic backdrop, though the vineyards are dormant. Spring brings new green growth and blossom. The harvest and the shoulders around it are the windows I recommend most.
Pick the harvest, a green summer, or the snowy Andes, then hand me the date. As your Elopement Curator I plan the day around the season and the light, coordinate the ceremony, and both shoot and film it. Twelve years and 240+ couples in, the autumn harvest is the one I recommend most for Mendoza.
