Ruta Provincial 94, km 11, Los Chacayes, Tunuyán, in Mendoza’s Uco Valley, “just a 90-minute drive from Mendoza Airport”. Michael Evans and Pablo Giménez Riili founded The Vines of Mendoza in 2004 and acquired 650 acres the following year; the resort opened on that land in 2014 with thirty-three villas. It is the register’s one house whose vineyard was sold off in private lots to several hundred owners before a single guest slept on the property.
The house
The land was a business before it was an address. The company dates its founding to 2004 — “Michael co-founded The Vines of Mendoza in 2004” — and its first purchase to the year after, “when Pablo Gimenez Riili and Michael Evans acquired 650 acres”. By 2008 it had sold Private Vineyards to “over 230 global owners” and expanded to 1,500 acres; it now cites “over 300 wine lovers from around the world” as private vineyard owners. Tasting rooms opened in Mendoza City and the Uco Valley in 2011. The estate states its land in acres throughout and names no winemaker.
The resort opened in 2014 with accommodation, a spa and service at the foot of the Andes, nine years after the first vines were bought. It holds thirty-three villas — the company’s own phrasing is “33 spacious villas” and “33 private villas” — in six types, from one-bedroom villas to the Andes Cóndor Villa, with lake-and-Andes or garden outlooks; no architect or designer is named. Siete Fuegos, named for the chef’s “collection of open-flame cooking techniques”, is credited to Francis Mallmann, who “designs all culinary offerings at The Vines Resort & Spa”, with Jonathan Pavez as its executive chef. The company is extending the property with 55 new residences, dated to 2025 in its own chronology.
What distinguishes it
The vineyard was sold to the guests before the hotel existed Private vineyard lots were being sold from the mid-2000s: “over 230 global owners” by 2008, “over 300 wine lovers from around the world” today. The resort opened in 2014, nine years after the first 650 acres were bought. The house is the hospitality arm of a land-sale and winemaking business, in that order.
Thirty-three villas and no named architect The resort runs to thirty-three villas in six types — Andes Cóndor, two-bedroom deluxe in lake-and-Andes or garden view, one-bedroom deluxe in either view, and a one-bedroom villa. Neither the resort’s nor the parent company’s pages name an architect, a designer or a square-metre figure for any of them. What the house publishes is its view and its count.
The kitchen carries a name the cellar does not Francis Mallmann designs all the resort’s culinary offerings and Siete Fuegos takes its name from his open-flame techniques; Jonathan Pavez is its executive chef. The wine list is described as “recognized and awarded multiple times by publications like Wine Spectator”. Across every page fetched, no winemaker is named — unusual for a property whose business is other people’s wine.
The estate measures itself in acres 650 acres in 2005, 1,500 acres by 2008. No hectare figure appears on the company’s own pages, in a country that uses them. The register prints the acreage as published and converts nothing.
It is still being added to The company’s chronology places 55 new residences at 2025, “with unique luxury floor plans”, private chefs and sommeliers among the stated amenities, and its homepage marks “20 years of The Vines”. The property a guest arrives at in 2026 is a construction site at one edge and a vineyard subdivision at another.
The house is ninety minutes by road from Mendoza airport, on a provincial route at the foot of the Andes, with no town within walking distance. Its guests are also the market for its vineyard lots and residences, and the property is being built out around them. A visitor who wants a finished hotel, or one with nothing to sell, should read the proposition first.
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