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270 days ago
This week has been great; full of nice experiences. One of them is WORK. I’ve got a job! Well, it is still starting, so we are on “honey moon”. However, my sixth sense tells me that it is going to be a good experience for both of us. I hope so, as I am working on commission and to sell their wine to international markets is my duty. For obvious reasons I am not going to mention the name of the company in any situation here, neither their wines - if the reasons are not clear to you, my virtual friend, I name some of them: I am discrete, professional and a serious person. Anyway, to be part of a business with coworkers and responsibilities are some of the things that make like the work environment and I am glad to be working on what I have chosen to do – how many times am I going to say that? I also took part of an event called Argentina Wine Awards which had not just a competition of the best Argentine wines but also a ...
270 days ago
A got a new point of view: I just moved in to my new place. It is a spacious and bright studio – for that I mean one big window that makes a 30 metres square apartment really bright Nevertheless, that is good enough for the moment. Actually, at this very moment I look over the window to contemplate a green street with man-planted trees to refresh a little the warm. The buzz of the buses is non stop during the day. The streets get a few more quiet at the “siesta” time; however, as today is Saturday, I reckon more people are out than in the weekly routine. Traffic in Mendoza is as good as in the other parts of Argentina, so you can picture an organized chaos. Apart from the usual old cars that the nation is so famous for, buses over here are very very colorful, with outside painted in a whole grade of colours and their interiors decorated as well. They also pollute a lot and to see a black smoke been spited from ...
282 days ago
Mendoza is a place full of life in summer: festival, tourists and buzz all around. Vendimia is the vital city’s party, which celebrates harvest. From weekly Tango meeting - where locals dance with whoever fells like taking part - to an open air cinema at the beautiful San Martin park- with stars, picnic and cigarettes allowed. Summer seems to have its best here. Last Saturday I took advantage of the good weather, after a sprinkle of rain, and had an asado (Argentine barbecue) at the patio of the hostel I was staying for the last month. It was in fact a “leaving party”, as I rented my apartment – finally. To prove locals are not wrong, I paired the asado (meat, chorizo and morcilla – in this case) with the local specialty: Malbec. However not just obvious combinations my experiments in Mendoza are made of. Last Friday I went to a “Chocolate and Wine Pairing”, where we had the opportunity to try some interesting matches, such ...
291 days ago
Well, as I said on the previous entry, I came back with my amateur writing for the sake of communication. I have no idea who it to, but I think it is a way of taking my thoughts out of my mind and looking after my well-being. I believe I write little for thinking too much. So from now, I am going to put down my feelings without the pretention of becoming a wine journalist – well, in fact I never considered that… So, don't worry if some of what I write doesn't make much sense to you… Anyway, talking about thoughts, they come like a rollercoaster in my mind. They carry with them happiness and scariness of starting all over again. Here I am, doing that once more, how long for? Mendoza , Argentina . Mendoza was always a land to dream of. While travelling over the world, it was always in my mind, as a summer passion that you just wanted to have some of little extra time to get to know a few more ...
291 days ago
Since I wrote on this sort of blog, I was just back in Brasil . Well, right now, I am already out of there again! Not that I wasn’t busy last year, I think I just avoided writing and I’m not a great writer anyway. I had much to say, I just thought I didn’t want to talk much publicly and as you know, there is nothing more public than a blog on internet. Now I believe I need that, maybe to share how I feel or I just feel alone. 2008 was a good year of experiences and decisions made. On the experiences side, I had some good ones and finally some of them were in the wine field – professionally. Both of them made me rethink about on which part of the wine business I wanted to be. Concerning at the decisions made, the most important was to find a job in a foreign country where I could work close to the wine-producer and live there – of course. So here I am, away from home, looking after my desires and working to making my aims and ...
