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!
Those of you who live here are probably familiar with the two online local food giants – Buenos Aires Delivery, a relative newcomer that has become the expat lifeline for finding and ordering takeout food; and Guia Oleo, the local Zagat’s equivalent for ratings and commentary of restaurants throughout the city (if your Spanish is… Read More A Taste of Taste
Several years ago my friend Rick and I were talking about taking a trip up to Paraguay, doing the whole Jesuit Mission trail, the Paraguayan side of Iguazu Falls, and visiting a couple of the cities, from Ciudad del Este to Asunción to Concepción. Well, Rick has moved back to the States and I only… Read More Assumption
About a year ago I wrote up a post on a series of fun little alternative tourist tours/events, including the fun, if slightly sales-pitch oriented wine tasting of Anuva Wines. A couple of weeks ago I was invited to attend a new offering in the local wine tasting world from local magazine publisher Time Out… Read More Time Out 4 Wine
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.” – Aristotle I had the fortune, or so it seemed at the time, to be invited to an “exclusive” presentation and tasting of the new releases of Clos de los Siete and its associated wines –… Read More The Group of Seven
I realized recently that at the end of each month there are always a bunch of photos sitting in a folder that I haven’t gotten around to writing about because they’re just things that caught my eye or, if they’re restaurant/food related they just don’t quite merit a review. So, perhaps this will be a… Read More November Roundup
Just an octet of sips from the last few weeks…. Dante Rubino Extra Brut NV, Mendoza, Argentina – Blend of Pinot noir and Chardonnay with a touch of Semillon – light gold color, fine bubbles, orange creamsicle on the nose, moderately high acidity, medium bodied, creamy, orange peel, butter and vanilla, long finish. Quite good.… Read More Next Round of Tasting Notes
“The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.” – Boutros Boutros-Ghali It’s always tough to wrap-up a year, but it’s also kind of fun to just look… Read More The 2010 Wrap-Up
“No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils. – Henry Ward Beecher That was the title, in Spanish anyway, of a panel presentation I just returned from. The presentation was held at the University of Palermo’s School of Design and Communication and… Read More Coffee, The Business of Aroma