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hey guys we're back with another video from northern argentina and this one is going to be
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all about the wine so after spending a couple of days exploring the province
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of Tucumán argentina we traveled even further north to the province of salta
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first up was the town of Cafayate argentina which is a wine producing region in the kalchaki
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valleys here we planned two back-to-back days of visiting vineyards and enjoying a bit of wine
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in this video we'll take you to two wineries that came highly recommended bodega piatelli and bolega
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so we invite you to come along for the fun and also drink responsibly not like this one
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over here not like that try again try again oh that window the wrong way and it burns try again
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how excited are you to drink some wine
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like a kill in a candy store here yeah so we're at bodegas piatelli here in the town of Cafayate this
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is a place that was recommended to us by several people so it's the first one we wanted to visit
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and the plan is to have some lunch here and we're also signing up for a tour
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boulevard is a short 15-minute drive from the center of town in Cafayate it's situated at the
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foot of the mountains and has beautiful views all around they have an on-site
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restaurant that is heavy on the barbecue and also features some regional specialties
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we couldn't get a table just randomly showing up on a sunday but that didn't
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stop us from ordering a bottle of wine and enjoying some appetizers alfresco
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cheers guys cheers cheers our first bodega here in salta we are at piatelli
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italia and we are trying a malbec tana 5050 very nice place the wine is really tasty
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wonderful the color is red ruby red you know really nice aroma as well yeah you can you can
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smell the tanat grape the bodega itself is right at the side of the uh at the foot of the mountain
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and down there you can see the whole valley you can see the other uh gordon of uh mountains over
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there with that red terracotta collar on the sides beautiful place look it feels like time
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is standing still you know yeah and apart from the vines they also have beautiful gardens with like
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rose bushes you have cacti you have trees it's a stunning property to visit it's beautifully
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manicured you have the mountains in the background you have the vineyards in all directions and it's
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just amazing it's a slice of tranquility out here and we have food coming we ordered some empanadas
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a trio of empanadas with different fillings so we'll show you that as soon as it arrives as soon
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as he gets here to accompany the wine until then cheers we drink wine we drink we drink
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right the empanadas have arrived three different kinds of empanadas i'm starting off with the
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cheese ones yeah they're piping hot look at whoa like they are loaded oozing they are plump
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empanadas let me tell you and we've got two sauces this one is like a tomato and onion base and this
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one is a little bit spicy yeah it's like a like a amarillo from peru yeah yeah but they're really
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they're really hot because they just came out of the oven and it's very very hard to eat like this
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they're piping hot yeah but they're good mine the the meat this is beef yeah and it's cut
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with a knife it's not uh ground beef and this is typically done with the salta empanada yeah and
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they took man too sometimes yeah i think they do it in the north in the northern part of the
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country yeah yeah all of them are good huh well oh mom well we need something in our stomachs to
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absorb the wine so empanadas it is this one is so good this is the osobuko yeah and it's a beef that
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just melts in your mouth it's like so buttery and so juicy so yeah the food is just as good as the
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wine over here huh my oh my you want to actually have a meal you need to reserve to come here yeah
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we didn't make a reservation so they had no tables available yeah that's why we're just drinking wine
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and having empanadas on a barrel yeah that's what there was we're not complaining this is good stuff
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well we've been wandering around the vineyard for the past hour or so waiting for the clock
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to strike three that's when they start the next tour they stop briefly during the
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lunch hour when it comes to wine tastings this bodega offers two different options
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you can try seven reserve wines for 300 pesos or five grand reserve wines for 380. we opted
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for the ladder and at the time of our visit that was the equivalent of about 6 us dollars
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first we went on a tour of the winery and even got a peek at their cellar
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and later on we got to taste their wines
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so what are we having here guys the whites
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it's like fresh crisp with a romance of pears apples and pineapples what do you think huh
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i like a wine that tastes like grapes that tastes like wine like i always say if i want the taste of
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fruit i go to the fruit store and save a lot of money and buy in a bottle of wine also sam's not
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really into white wine so he had to sip and put the rest in the spittoon hey i'm i'm saving i'm
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saving for the red i could have had it yeah but i do we don't we don't have to carry you home so
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you know facing ourselves okay next time you leave wine left over and he comes to it you
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throw it out like that payback and we have a little bit of bread yeah with some olive oil
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okay it's perfect to clean the clean the palate put a bit of a layer in the belly rosie
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nothing left of the raw set but he says it wasn't his favorite even though he had all of it he drank
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all of it and he's like not my favorite and it's a malbec i didn't know that malware could be made
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into a rosette but apparently they leave it for three hours yes but it's not my kind of wine i
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won't buy it and then it's too dry in the mouth you know like it leaves your mouth like that one
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this one is from Cafayate this one is from mendoza this is high altitude wine yes and then standard
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altitude i'm gonna try the high altitude the smell is really it's beautiful you guys are you guys are
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high flyers over here it smells like grape i really like the high altitude wine from cafe
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it's like full body but very smooth like it just it doesn't have that alcoholic burn
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at the last minute you know when you drink a wine that is
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halfway there and you drink it and you feel that alcoholic burn
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this one is very smooth we've been having a fantastic wine tour i mean we started off
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with a bottle of wine for lunch with our empanadas and now we've moved on to tasting we got here like
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shortly after noon and uh now by the time we leave it'll probably be about five o'clock so
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i spent the whole afternoon here at the bodega and i couldn't recommend it more
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i'd come back again tomorrow we'll do it all over again at a different winery tomorrow
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yeah tomorrow we will we it's another bodega day so stay tuned and this is the last one right
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the trio los tres amigos this one wraps up our tour uh in the bodega
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yeah and tomorrow we are going to do it all over again in a different day
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but we've reached our limit yeah what a great day what a fantastic day though
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it was a lot of fun had a great time cheers to a fun afternoon if you're traveling in argentina
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come to california and visit bodegas it's the best thing you can do in town let me tell you
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now fast forward to the following day the next winery and vineyard we visited was bolega lesteko
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this property is located on the edge of town and since Cafayate is a very small town
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that means you can easily walk there our plan was to order a bottle of wine and enjoy a nice lunch
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thankfully we were able to get a table this time
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well good afternoon guys another day another vineyard today we have come to bolega el esteco
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they also have a restaurant on site that's called la rosa and they have a hotel called
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patios de Cafayate so there's a lot going on on this property we're here for lunch we're hungry
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but the property is very nice it's built on the typical colonial spanish colonial construction
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the way they used to build back in the days a lot of inner courtyards and a lot of uh kind of like
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terraces like covered terraces and yeah it's a very very nice place to
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visit
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cheers guys wine and empanadas have arrived wine is here and empanadas are here mr
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and it says it has been stored in oak barrels for 12 months yeah when it's a reserving it's
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at least 12 months in a whole barrel so it needs time it's a very uh soft mild wine you know you
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cannot go wrong with this one top notch very good quality stuff my kind of wine i put it up there as
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one of my favorite ones from argentina yeah it's right up there right up there and it's very very
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very reasonably priced both here and in canada too so you guys have the you guys have beef empanadas
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how are they marvelous i tell you half of it is gone with a little bit of the sauce on top
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oh yeah yeah the sauce really enhances it the fried ones are just my favorite they're the best
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good appetizer or what juicing made to perfection and you know what i think the pastry is made with
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lard yeah and it has that but that's flavor they are very small here in the northern
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provinces they make them smaller and when you start eating these
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you don't stop it's a danger you know because they're so tasty and so good that you could
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i could stick myself with about a dozen a dozen and a half of these ones no problem
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so the best thing to do instead of uh having them as an appetizer maybe one day you just decide to
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eat nothing but this like so you your craving can be satisfied right look at all the cheese copious
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amount looks amazing there's a bit of salsa left some lime has already been squeezed over top so
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i'm loading it up like that i'm going to do a one biter one biter amy goes i've tried empanadas in
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a lot of different parts of argentina the ones that you get in the north from like Tucumán and
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salta argentina those are my favorite they're just so good and they go perfectly with a glass of wine
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cheers right mains have arrived what do we got these are here what have we got my dad and i both
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ended up getting the same dish yeah originally i wanted to try their northern stew their casuela
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but they were out they didn't have any so i got the pasta instead yeah they were landing right oh
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yeah it was like a lentil stew yeah which i'm sure would be wonderful with a bit of pork but yeah
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this is very tasty a nice alternative and i really like the presentation how it's kind of rustic they
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just serve it to you in the pan on top of this like wooden tray here it goes down the hatch
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homemade you cannot go wrong with that one okay beautiful and we also got a little side salad
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since we haven't been getting lots of vegetables in our system this is called the inca salad and
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it has quinoa tomatoes onions corn lots of lemon juice parsley very good and you sam you've got
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quite the meal in front of you i don't can't wait to show you look at this guys well i'm gonna lift
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the hood so you can see toasted bun sesame seeds i've got egg i've got tomatoes i've got lettuce
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i've got bacon cheese meat i mean the meat is so big it's even oozing out on the sides looks
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incredible and then some pan roasted potatoes here looks like it's been seasoned with maybe some
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cayenne pepper or something looks like i've got a nice little sauce here creamy sauce oh like a
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mayo dip of sorts that has wasabi in it oh my god oh yeah i'll give some serious kick to it i am the
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star of the show the burger that is a big burger guys look at that in the hands barely contain it
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oh that looks juicy oh yeah it's like a meat lover's dream you know that's just a
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beautiful burger man like the food here has been phenomenal everything we've had from the bread to
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the empanadas to this you guys have really enjoyed your means too yeah this restaurant is fantastic
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dessert dessert has arrived two desserts to be precise and audrey's been uh indulging a bit in
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both of them so we have uh flan yeah with dulce de leche and this is a special kind of flan it
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comes with gold milk so i'm interested to try that i don't think i've ever had a goat milk flan over
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here we have a regional dessert you were saying something like it's sort of like an empanada
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with a with a sweet inside yeah so it's a filo pastry and it's stuffed with a local fruit called
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Cafayate yeah and it's heavy in the hand it's also really warm too yeah so you basically smear it on
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this cheese is that right it's not cheese it is a meringue made with sugar cane my friend well
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there we go yeah look at that and it is hot let me warn you that jam inside the coyote jam that's
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good wow all right time for the flan with tussle de leche it's usually made with cow's milk but in
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this case they've used goat's milk so let's see if you can actually taste the difference or not
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i couldn't by the way no normally i find
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goat products are a little bit more salty but this tastes just very very milky like a normal flan
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and this is this is a very classic dessert in argentina i'd say it's probably one of
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the most common ones you get your flan with your serving of pieces of leche and yeah really nice
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way to end this meal fantastic meal overall and then i think we're all getting a little
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sleepy here it's been a lot of food and a lot of wine a lot of wine that's the culture
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well lunch is over that was a delicious meal it came to 50 us dollars
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and now we're climbing up a bell tower because we've got to work out work off
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those calories and apparently you get some pretty cool views so here we go it's very echoey
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the bell tower is open to visitors and is free to climb once you reach the top you are treated to
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views of the vineyard stretching out as far as the eye can see plus mountains all along the horizon
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so
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well guys that concludes our visit to bodega el esteco that was fun that was great
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yeah that was a good meal oh yeah good wine now we're ready to go home we have a good
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siesta yeah maybe we'll relax for a little while we have another half an hour walking
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and it's still hot out there you know yeah sam also bought some yeah souvenirs we
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should also mention there's a hotel that looks fantastic here too hotel gaucho knives knives
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stainless steel very sharp
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leather ass covered so yeah now we are going to walk back back to the house it's
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nap time words are failing us so we better say goodbye friends and see you in the next video
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