Mendoza, Argentina: Day 1-Cheap wine & comfort foodMar 21, 2012
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| Arrived in Mendoza to a great little appartment and a friendly welcome by Jane, the owner of the appartment. We then immediately set out to check out the lay of the land and look for food. During our searching we just happened to find a wine tasting room. Imagine that! The tasting room was for a really old, boutique winery, was in a wine cellar/cave from the early 1800's and was only about $5 to taste 10 wines. Sounds great, right!? Oh, did we mention these tastes were not tastes but nearly full glasses? Unfortunately, after our very first sip we had had enough. The tasting started with your traditional sweet wines (which we are not the biggest fans of to start with), then the tasting moved onto your not so traditional sweet wines including Malbec,Syrah and a Cab. Not sure fancy, old, boutique winery but Montana may have you beat in the innovative sweet wine category with their huckleberry wine. Not sure, just saying. Anyway, after downing about 8 "tastes," (the not so chatty and friendly woman was ready to pour the next wine about every 45 seconds so we had to really commit to this tasting), we just could not take any more and had to say "no" to the blends. We thanked the woman and left. As luck would have it (and to our relief, we were in desperate need of something to balance the sweeeeeeet that lingered in our mouths) just around the corner was a supermarket. We returned to our appartment with a massive bag of salty peanuts, beer and some Gouda cheese (Andre's favorite), made our first home made lomo, or filet mignon (cost of what we nearly paid for 1 diet pepsi earlier in the day), and some Rosy-made chocolate chip cookies (Rosy's favorite) for dessert. Oh, and more wine! And so was our very first day in Mendoza,Argentina, the source of 78% of the world's Malbec wine. |
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