Purple
Irked
Carrau
Wine tasting was the plan of action for Montevideo. Kirsten had arranged that we would visit two different wineries, one aimed at quality and one aimed at quantity mass production.
First winery was Juan Carrau where we sampled delicious red and whites wines. Each wine was tastier than the last, plus we had the added bonus of yummy nibbles! Rogan was delighted to find a nice Sauv Blanc and so bought a chilled bottle, opened and drank it (with the help of the group) on the minibus enroute to the second winery. Classy or what!
The second winery was H. Stagnari where we sampled another mixture of red and white wines. While the whites were drinkable, the reds were a lot harsher than the previous experience. This was not our favourite venue but they were much more generous with their helpings, plus let us empty the opened bottles! We're accommodating folks and duly obliged.
Food that night was more amazing steaks (they can rival Argentina any day here in Uruguay!) plus we kept the bottles of red flowing. Running low on funds, we abandoned the restaurant, returned to the hotel, acquired wine glasses from the bar and relocated to a hotel room to help people drink their earlier purchased bottles of red wine. Red wine while very tasty is terrible for staining the lips, teeth and tongue - usually why I avoid it at home. Our only consolation was that we were all sporting manic purple grins together! The next day there were a few sore heads, but thankfully yours truly was disgustingly chipper. Those worst off were quite irked that I had managed to get off scot free as most were ruing the nights activities since we had a three hour ferry ride back to Buenos Aires ahead of us...
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