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