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  

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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