Hilera
Ground-floor doubles along the old loading side, each with a shuttered door opening straight onto the vine rows.
Luján de Cuyo · Mendoza, Argentina
A bottling house that stopped bottling and started putting people up
Thirty-four rooms in a 1940s bodega at the edge of the vineyards, twenty minutes south of Mendoza city. The concrete fermentation tanks were too heavy to remove, so we left them standing in the lobby and built the reception desk around them. The windows sit high in the wall, the way they do in working wineries; by six in the afternoon the light comes in flat and gold and lands on the far side of the room.
Past the gate there are rows of Malbec, a gravel road and, behind them, the Andes.
The hotel has its own casino inside the building, one floor above the lobby, open evenings.
Enquire about a roomStay
Three ways to sleep in a winery
The walls are thick, the floors stay cool and two of the three types have no television. Rooms are let by the night, all year.
Tanque
Upper rooms built against the curve of a sealed concrete tank, so one wall of each is a long, cold arc of 1940s cement.
Cornisa
Four corner rooms under the roof pitch, with a private terrace that faces the Cordón del Plata and gets the whole sunset.
Breakfast is included in every room. Two Hilera rooms are step-free from the car park; tell reception when you book and we'll hold one for you.
Eat & drink
Four rooms, one kitchen, a lot of firewood
Everything is cooked on site. The wine list runs to 180 labels and most of them grew within ten kilometres of the front door.
Sala de Carga
Dinner, Tuesday to SundayThe old loading hall, now twelve tables and a wood-fired grill at the far end. Four courses, written out each morning, built around whatever the market in Luján de Cuyo had that day. Book by noon.
Bar Tonel
Daily, 17:00 until lateA short zinc counter set into the lobby between two of the tanks. There's vermouth from Mendoza, cold beer and eight wines by the glass, plus a plate of olives that arrives uninvited and doesn't last long.
Patio Olivo
Lunch, weather permittingLong tables under four olive trees that predate the building. Grilled vegetables and provoleta come with bread from the morning bake. Service pauses through the hottest hours and picks up again at four.
La Tranquera
Breakfast, 07:00–10:30Named for the gate at the end of the drive. Medialunas, quince paste, eggs cooked to order and coffee strong enough to get you onto a bicycle before the wind rises.
Upstairs, after dinner
Marlowe Estate Casino: the casino upstairs
18+
The casino occupies the Tanque Mezzanine, one floor above reception. Guests reach Marlowe Estate Casino by the iron stair that curls past the concrete tanks in the lobby, or by the lift if they'd rather not climb. Either way you stay inside Marlowe Estate the whole time. It's a compact room with a few tables, a short bar and chairs for about forty people.
It opens in the evening and closes when the last table does. Dress is relaxed but tidy, so please leave beachwear and wet pool shoes behind. Entry to the casino is 18 and over, and we check photo ID at the door on every visit, including for guests the staff already greet by name.
Limits are set on the gaming floor by whoever is on duty and change from night to night, so ask before you sit down. If you want to exclude yourself from the casino, arrange it in person at reception.
This is a land-based casino inside the hotel. The website you are reading belongs to the hotel. It offers no online casino games and takes no bets, deposits or payments, so there is nothing to play here.
Hours move with the season, so the current casino schedule is posted at reception and printed on the card in your room.
- WhereTanque Mezzanine, one floor up, by stair or lift from the lobby.
- WhenEvenings, seven nights a week.
- Door18+ with photo ID on every visit, and tidy dress.
Getting around
Where this puts you
- AirportEl Plumerillo (MDZ) is 42 km north, roughly 50 minutes by car. We can send a driver if you give us the flight number.
- Mendoza cityPlaza Independencia is 22 km away, about 35 minutes on Ruta 40. The last bus back from the city leaves well before dinner service ends, so plan for a taxi.
- Vineyard roadsAgrelo and Perdriel bodegas sit within a ten-kilometre radius on gravel and chip-seal lanes. We keep eight bicycles and a tyre pump by the gate, free for guests.
- MountainsPotrerillos reservoir is an hour west, Cacheuta's thermal baths slightly closer. Both are easy half-days; the road climbs quickly, so take a jacket even in January.
Find us
Come down the gravel drive and keep going
Address
Marlowe Estate
Calle Terrada 2140
Agrelo, Luján de Cuyo
M5509 Mendoza
Argentina Telephone +54 261 418 7362 Email [email protected] Reception The desk is staffed 24 hours. For questions about the casino, please ask there, as we don't answer them by email.
Calle Terrada 2140
Agrelo, Luján de Cuyo
M5509 Mendoza
Argentina Telephone +54 261 418 7362 Email [email protected] Reception The desk is staffed 24 hours. For questions about the casino, please ask there, as we don't answer them by email.