Bodega Norton: Luján de Cuyo's 1895 Winery
One of the oldest working bodegas in Luján de Cuyo, founded in 1895. A big, classic winery visit with a long history and a large estate.
- Region
- Luján de Cuyo
- From
- 36,500 ARS (July 2026)
- Website
- norton.com.ar ↗
Norton is one of the oldest working bodegas in Mendoza. It was founded in 1895 by an English engineer who came to Argentina to work on the trans-Andean railway, which is how a name that sounds like a Midlands motorcycle factory ended up on a Malbec label in the middle of Argentine vineyards.
The winery sits in Perdriel, in Luján de Cuyo, about half an hour by car from Mendoza city. That is close enough to do as a morning and be back for a late lunch in town.
What kind of visit this is
This is the big, established, well-run version of a winery visit: a guided walk through a working production facility with more than a century of history behind it, followed by a seated tasting. It is not a small family operation where the owner pours for you at the kitchen table. If that is what you are after, you will be disappointed here, and you should look elsewhere.
What Norton does well is scale and continuity. You see how wine gets made at volume, in a place that has been doing it without a break since the 1890s. For a first winery visit, that context is genuinely useful — it gives you something to measure the boutique places against later.
Do you need to book?
Yes. Book ahead. Like almost every bodega around Mendoza, Norton runs visits by reservation, not by walk-in, and turning up at the gate on the day is the single most common way visitors waste an afternoon here. Reserve directly through the winery, or take a seat on the Bus Vitivinícola, which sells the visit as part of its circuit.
The two routes do not necessarily cost the same. The figure on this page comes from the Bus Vitivinícola price list as of July 2026; a direct booking may be priced differently, and in a country with Argentina’s inflation, any number older than a few months is a rough guide rather than a quote.
Luján de Cuyo is the old Malbec heartland, lower and warmer than the Uco Valley and much closer to the city. If you are not sure how a tasting is structured or what you are meant to do with the glass in front of you, read my wine tasting guide before you go — it takes five minutes and makes the first stop better.