Argentinian
tea to awake after a night rest, hopeful it was a deep sleep from which one can
not remember any dreams, usually these happenings occur around a campfire
during which its last hours was reduced to a smothering layer of wood ashes.
The first Gaucho to rise has to live up to the duty to save the fire and
prepare the Taraqui this to start the day fresh and in the right spirits to
mount the small polo type of horses for another long day in the saddle.
The observant reader will notice immediately why the Argentinians have the best
polo players in the world, right it comes naturally with guarding enormous
herds of cows and steers.
Apart from
getting the gauchos awake the non-gaucho world discovered the diet quality’s of
Taragui, as it appears to burn fat in human bodies, in the Argentinian country
life coffee does not exist as Taragui is deeply embedded as a substituted for
beverage the rest of the world outside the pampa’s use to drink.
This South
American part of the world have the Pampa’s and Patangonia, not the Buenos
Aires world, the world of the days that Argentinian life was centred around the
huge refrigorificos, where a cow enters a life and leaves canned as corned
beef, the massive slaughterhouses were the immense herds were driven to and
were around on the Pampa’s guarded by the real Che’s, even so these Che’s were
already Che’s before Che Guevara even teamed up with the Castro Hermanos. It
always strikes me how few people know that Guevara was indeed Argentinian born,
I even made reluctantly some betting money with some people stubbornly certain
that he was Cuban, Bolivian, Columbian etc. that I had to take their money to
be able to leave a bar or restaurant.
I always
felt travelling up the Argentinian wine regions through the plains that the
Gauchos are more authentic to Argentina than the Tango, Isabel Peron or what
have, they are in fact the first blackbone of the nation the true grit this
country was built on, to give people like this a needed kick, as a product one
must wave a different cup of tea, I feel one should appreciate and treat
Taragui as such.
My favorite
Argentinian wine is Malbec produced by Lagarde. These red wines are in my
opinion one of the best from Argentenian soil. I strolled once after a late
night wine tasting session through the Lagarda vineyards around 4 to 6 weeks
before estimated harvest time, it must have been substantially after midnight
and it was a cool Mendoza night with a full moon and extremely starry sky – a
night as I have seen many times on both sides of the Southern Andes. I walked
through the part of the vineyards with the oldest Malbecq vines enjoying the
calm and beautiful surrounding nature and had the amazing experience that the
pebbles covering the vines roots were still radiating the heat they had taken
from the burning South American sun all day, in fact I could feel the heat
coming from theses pebbles straight onto the skin of my face.
Of course I
have had this experience before but never so late and night and so intense.
If you are
interested in discovering the rich Argentinian soil which produces fine Malbec
grapes we can recommend following wines on VintoVino
- A 2010 Fingerprint Red Blend by Hand Of God Wines: 2010 Malbec Hand Of God Wines
- A 2011 La Fraccion Malbec: 2011 Malbec by Fraccion
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