I´ve discovered a delightful wine while traveling in Argentina. It´s Quara Torrontes produced by Finca El Recreo in Cafayate, a northern wine district where this grape thrives.
Torrontes is Argentina´s signature white wine, just as Malbec is its signature red. Floral, spicy and intense, it´s a little like Gewurztraminar, and Argentina is the only country that produces it.
Quara is a fine example, elegant, light and dry. I drank it with an antipasto platter at an Italian restaurant in Cordoba, Argentina´s second largest city. And it was just as good from a paper cup on a long cross-country bus ride.
The quara, a short-haired type of llama, was prized by the Incas for iits ability to carry heavy loads over steep mountains, and Quara Torrontes is just as useful. I would serve it with chicken, Thai food, curries, even sushi--anything except, perhaps, a hardcore steak or beef stew.
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