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| Malbec grapes. Picture from http://wine-tasting-reviews.com/ |
Now that I’m in my home country again, it’s often easy to enjoy food I really like, which is food made in Brazil. They are açaí ‘smoothie’, pão de queijo, feijoada – Brazilians know better. My friends in town introduced me to something new, but not something from my own country.It’s simply wine, which I know, but from Argentina, the Malbec wine. This is a wine I wasn’t aware of.
My friends, Daniel, Márcio, and I were drinking beer at Daniel and Carol’s place one day, when Carol called our attention for a TV show, which topic was wines.
The program’s segment was showing the Malbec wine. That particular wine is delicious, according to them. Unfortunately, I couldn’t taste right there.
Back home, I commented the wine to my sister. She said the wine is made of grapes only grown at the Andes Mountains. ‘Uhh’, I thought – it is real special wine. I haven’t heard about it overseas.
Few days later I already tasted my first Malbec. Today I tried this one named, Elsa Bianchi, from 2009. Both of them are great. The latter is though crisp.
What I found out is that Malbec is minor wine in California, and it’s added to other wines only to give a bit of consistency. Bordeaux and Médoc, in France, use it in a very small scale. Nonetheless, Malbec is very good in Argentina, ‘where the heat and dryness bring out the best of your character’.
It is enough for me to keep enjoying it.
