Wine & Food in Buenos Aires: One More Time.

For the last several days I’ve made more than 4 trips downtown to meet with the people at Delfino Air Cargo, the agent for Malaysia Airlines Cargo here in Buenos Aires. The runaround is incredible. But things are happening.

I got a chance to go back to Dakar Motos and spend some time with Javier and the other moto travelers camping and hangingt there. Daniel, a jovial German share s passion for food and wine. So we arranged a couple ad-hoc wine tastings and some food sampling. It’s too bad I hadn’t met him ealrier as I would have liked to spend some time traveling, I’m sure we could get into trouble with the great wine and food Argentina has to offer.

Sebastian, Gerben and Daniel arrived at the Hotel Costa Rica with a handful of Argentinean wine. I had made my stop to the “Winery” wine store downtown near the Delfino offices and we ordered pizza and empanandas and simply chilled out in the hotel lobby while sharing the food and wine with the good folks here.

Daniel & Gerben sporting the fine corks of tonight’s tasting.

The Colomé wines blew me away. Made from grapes grown in Salta north of Cafayate, the vineyard is owned by Swiss business magnate Donald Hess, who also owns The Hess Collection vineyard and winery in Napa Valley in California.

It’s always nice to start with a little salad. Thanks Daniel!

Just what Argentina is famous for: carne!

An impressive salmon carpaccio salad from Little Rose Sushi in Palermo.

The most innovative, yet not traditional. caprese salad from Junio.

How could we even talk about food in Argentina without an empanada?

More carne. Aaargh.

The asado from Desnivel in San Telmo.

I was offended by this rubber stamped “english” addition to my check at Spirit in Palermo. Their food didn’t make this essay, but their decorum did!

At Don Julio in Palermo SoHo some guests are asked to sign the bottles of wine and they are placed throughout the restaurant.

The Susana B. A fabulous full-throttle Malbec from Mendoza. They handed me the big black sharpie and I signed, date and placed the bottle for eternity.