Amazing Mendoza Tours
About Amazing Mendoza Tours
Amazing Mendoza Tours is a small company dedicated to providing
its clients with high-quality, personalized experiences of a world-class
destination. We are committed to creating trips that offer memorable
experiences of wonderful wines and food, excellent lodgings, innovative
excursions and opportunities for cultural exchange. We also pride
ourselves on being flexible and responsive to our clients' needs, interests
and schedules.
We have a physical presence in the United States in a small town near
Washington, D.C. You can write to us there at:
Amazing Mendoza Tours, LLC
PO Box 45
Shepherdstown, WV 25443
We also have a physical presence in Mendoza, Argentina which is:
Posada de Rosas
Martinez de Rozas, 1641
Mendoza, Argentina 5500
About the Owners Riccardo and Ellen
Your tour operators are Ellen Hoffman and Riccardo Accurso. They're fluent in Spanish and as part-time residents of Mendoza, they are constantly researching and updating their knowledge of Mendoza's wines, wineries, restaurants, and off-the-beaten-track experiences that you won't get on a mass package tour.
Ellen and Riccardo have both traveled extensively throughout the world and have a good understanding of what travelers need and deserve. Both Ellen and Riccardo have lived in Spain for many years.
Ellen has served as a cultural guide for tours sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. As a free-lance travel writer, Ellen has written two travel books and has had travel articles published in the Washington Post and numerous other national newspapers and magazines, and has contributed to many travel guidebooks.
Riccardo had a brief tenure as a college professor (Reed College, 1968-70) which was abandoned in favor of a more adventurous career as a travelling artist. In that latter role, he had the opportunity to both live and work in Mexico, Greece, England, India, and Spain, where he lived for three years and where he met Ellen.