Mostly wine related, perhaps a review of one or more wines, or a wine tasting. Sometimes other beverages as well – spirits, or even non-alcohol drinks, if you can believe that!
Buenos Aires – As I mentioned in this morning’s post, folks brought quite a few wines (7½ bottles for 12 of them). Lucky for me, that meant four bottles at the end of the night with a glass or more of wine for me to sample. I didn’t get to them until today, so they’d… Read More Opening Night Wine Roundup
Buenos Aires – Just in case you thought I’ve been spending too much time out at restaurants recently and not enough time honing my cooking skills – after all, Casa SaltShaker opens this week – I thought I’d present a couple of things I’ve cooked recently. Not stuff that’s destined for the dinners in particular,… Read More A Bit of Dining, a Bit of Wining
Buenos Aires – Met up with my friend Victor and a group of folk he’d gathered together for a bit of a wine tasting on Sunday afternoon. What else is there to do on an Easter Sunday except bite the ears off of a chocolate bunny? And that gets old after a half dozen of… Read More Sunday Afternoon on the Docks
Buenos Aires – Dereck Foster is the wine and food writer for The Buenos Aires Herald, the major local English language paper. In general, I enjoy reading his columns, especially when he waxes eloquent about meals savored in the past, restaurants of bygone eras, and the glories of food and wine. He’s published a lovely… Read More Some Notes on Wine
Atlántida – Saturday dawned, the stormclouds, rain, and winds disappeared, no evidence of cyclone alerts. Laura, my companion for the first three days, took a day off to spend with her family, and José Luis, INAVI’s foreign trade director, picked me up at my hotel so that we could head to points east. A bundle… Read More Gods of the Winds
Montevideo – Sated from our little asado lunch (they made me take second helpings of both lamb and beef), we piled back into the van and headed generally towards Montevideo. Our remaining goal, two more wineries, but with a minor twist to help us pack a little more tasting into our remaining time – we… Read More Technological Wonder
Juanicó – It’s kind of fun to find out little interesting tidbits of history as you travel around. For example, did you know that France was in such bad shape during World War II that they turned to Uruguay for help? At the time, Uruguay was a country that had been built up by many… Read More A Mix of Grapes and Cultures
Canelón Chico – Friday morning and we set off bright and early – we had four winery visits planned for the day, and one of them was planned to include lunch; which here, of course, means sitting and chatting for at least several hours. Our first visit was to Bodegas Carlos Pizzorno in this small… Read More Pizzorno – Take 2