Absenthe, things may have started to go downhill from here.

It´s malbec country

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March 29th 2010
One of the things that I discovered while researching this little sojourn was that Mendoza is the home of Malbec, which I´m fastly learning is one of the finest of South American red wines that you can get. So there´s no surprise that I decided to stop on by to see what all the talk was about. The road from Santiago across the Andes to Mendoza is one of those times that I wish I was driving or r ... read more

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Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more