http://blog.anuvavinos.com Expanding the Argentine Wine Frontier Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:07:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Many people have come to Buenos Aires and eaten beef for their first 2-3 days. I did for my first 2-3 weeks. And then one of two things happens: either your palate gets sick of it, or your bowels do. In either case you look for alternatives. Especially in the ... http://blog.anuvavinos.com/the-best-restaurants-for-spicy-food-in-buenos-aires-argentina/ I spent nearly the entire day today with Philippe and Brigitte Subra, the lovely French owners of Carinae Vinos. Carinae is a derivative of the name Carina, one of the constellations that is only visible in the Southern sky. This name comes from Philippe's passion for astronomy. All of the ... http://blog.anuvavinos.com/more-great-news-from-mendoza-carinae-vinos/ Eating a beautiful, rare, bife de chorizo at the Don Mario restaurant in Palmares, Mendoza with Hector and Pablo Durigutti and sampling their new Aguijon de Abeja Cabernet Sauvignon was quite a treat today. These two brothers are quite possibly the most important young winemakers in Mendoza right now. Both ... http://blog.anuvavinos.com/hector-durigutti-and-pablo-durigutti-aguijon-de-abeja-wines/ It is always a pleasure to sit down with someone who makes such intelligent comments about the business of wine, winemaking, wine sales and so forth. That was my conversation today with Hernan Cortegoso of Bodega Serrera. They make a killer Torrontes that I wrote about a little while ago ... http://blog.anuvavinos.com/hernan-cortegoso-enologist-winemaker-owner-of-serrera-wines/ One of the biggest tourist attractions, if not THE biggest in Buenos Aires is the Recoleta Cemetary.On any given day, especially in the summertime (which here as you know is December through February), tourists from all over the world flock to the opulent and ostentatious cemetary built by the "recoleto" ... http://blog.anuvavinos.com/the-recoleta-cemetary-in-buenos-aires-argentina/ It's almost painful to write a list like this, knowing that your mother-in-law's meat empanadas are, in fact the best empanadas you have tried in your nearly 6 year Buenos Aires eating binge. Her combination of ground beef, italian herbs, red pepper and a few key secret ingredients that give ... http://blog.anuvavinos.com/top-5-empanada-restaurants-in-buenos-aires/ Back to the topic of wine from Argentina: They say that the best Torrontes comes from Salta followed by Torrontes from La Rioja (Argentina of course) and San Juan. They are respectively known as Torrontes Salteno, Riojano, and San Juanino. The reason that these 3 regions supposedly always make better Torrontes is ... http://blog.anuvavinos.com/serrera-torrontes-an-undiscovered-gem-from-mendoza/ Im sorry to deviate so much from the topic of wine, but as I learn more about what my parents, and many other adoptive families went through to get these orphans out of Haiti, I feel compelled to share:The process of adoption for most of these families started in 2006, ... http://blog.anuvavinos.com/the-saga-of-adopting-kids-from-haiti/ After two years of waiting, it finally took an earthquake to move the System enough to allow my parents (my father is my business partner), to adopt 3 kids from Haiti: Corinna 14, Rashaard 10, and Mumina 6.Welcome to the family!What irks me though, is why did it take 2 ... http://blog.anuvavinos.com/anuva-co-founder-adopts-3-haitian-children/ They say wine is a family business. Not the mafia type family, mind you.Gabriel and Monica Blanco exemplify one of these families. They make a line of wines called Mairena that truly illustrates how important their family is to them:The name Mairena is originally what they wanted to name their oldest daughter, ... http://blog.anuvavinos.com/mairena-bonarda-malbec-a-mendoza-family-story/