Category: SouthAmerica
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9. Los Arboles Malbec 2008
Arriving at 11:30pm in a city like Mendoza does not make a great first impression. It’s a nice city of about 100,000 residents, but after Buenos Aires it is a little underwhelming even during the the popular Saturday dining hour of midnight. However, there are two things that Mendoza offers in abundance. One of them…
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8. Crotta Moscato 200WhoCares
This wine is a cross between flat coca-cola and sweet vermouth, and even that is speaking too highly of it ($1 a huge cup). It is, however, the quintessential wine when eating pizza in Buenos Aires, and fortunately the quality of the pizza is much greater than the quality of this wine. Owing to its…
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7. Septima Maria Extra Brut
It should be fairly telling that they like champagne in Argentina given that in our very limited kitchen we have three wine glasses and three champagne flutes. The major french houses like Moet & Chandon and Mumm are setting up shop much like they have in California and are producing great bubbly for an even…
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Villa Crespo
The first day we wandered the streets around our apartment in Villa Crespo, we became overwhelmed by the grocery options. Strawberries and asparagus were stacked up neatly at the frequent vegetable markets reminding us along with the crisp sunny days that it is spring here. Steaks of sirloin, T-bone, or strip were being trimmed swiftly…
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6. Festivo Malbec
Festivo Malbec 2007 ($7.50) Another very nice wine recommended by our baker-cum-sommelier. This fruit-forward Malbec is a beautiful ruby red in the glass. This long weekend we’re headed to Mendoza, the heart of Argentinean wine country. Our sommelier advised us to spend a day visiting the big famous bodegas, but then to spend the rest…
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5. Equilatero Cabernet Sauvignon – Syrah
Equilatero by Portal Andino Cabernet Sauvignon – Syrah 2008 ($4) A dark and broody wine. This is a pretty complicated wine for its price point. It was recommended to us by the baker/wine “expert” at a charming cafe & wine bar. He described it as a smoky wine. Our favorite red wine so far, and…
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4. Tomero Sauvignon Blanc
Tomero Sauvignon Blanc 2008 ($10) After a day spent tromping around one of Buenos Aires’ many shopping districts, there’s nothing better than kicking your feet up, opening a chilled, screw-top bottle of a refreshing, effervescent wine, and admiring your new purchases.
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3. San Telmo Malbec
San Telmo is a neighborhood of Buenos Aires well known to every tourist that visits for its Sunday street fair and tango shows in the streets.We should have known then that a wine with its namesake, despite being grown in the Mendoza region, would be very mediocre. Actually, we did know, but we figured we…
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2. Sietefincas Chardonnay
sietefincas 2008 Chardonnay (~$9) Adam says: Smells faintly of caramelized onions Cara says: That’s because you’re cooking onions. It has notes of banana, pineapple and citrus. Adam says: You’re reading the label. Cara says: But it’s in Spanish. I’m practicing. Seriously, it’s a lightly oaked, dry white. We had low expectations for white wine in…
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Moving – http://www.jettplane.com
After a few years we’ve decided that we should probably move along with our geeky selves and create a blog on our own domain. We’ll be trying some different posts while we’re over there, in an effort to be awesome. The guys at bootsnall are being nice enough to send us these files, so we…