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| Come tango with us...3-6p at our tasting (heels optional) |
We met at one of the many milongas (public tango parties) that take place in Mendoza during the Tango por los Caminos del Vino (Tango Festival on the Wine Route), which takes place every September (the beginning of spring in the southern hemisphere). The Festival showcases the passion of tango music and dance, set amidst the unique scenery of Mendoza wine country – beautiful high desert, blooming with the snow melt irrigation, the Andes mountains as a backdrop. And of course, there are those wonderful Mendoza Cabernets to enjoy during a break in the dancing. For special friends and partners, maybe a luscious Cabernet reserve, as sensual and seductive as the tango itself . A good Cabernet Sauvignon, like this Juana de Sol Cabernet Sauvignon, is possibly the best of all Argentine red wines.
Ah, the Argentine tango – it’s a sensual dance, seductive in its complexity. In 1916, American modern dancer Isadora Duncan visited Argentina, and after being introduced to tango, said: "I had never danced Tango…. My first steps were timid, but the feeling of the languid music caused my body to respond to the voluptuousness of the dance. Soft as a caress, torrid as love under the midday sun, dangerous as a tropical forest".
It is a dance not performed from the feet, the hips or the arms but from the heart and soul. In this intimate form of communication, our individual movements become our words. Each time we dance together, we speak to each other’s hearts and souls through movement. There is no thinking in Tango, only feeling.
In Tango, it is the man’s duty to begin to talk with his body and for the woman, with her body, to know how to respond. And so the mind grows silent and instincts take over, until the dance becomes sensual, and you discover that what you’ve learned is just a forgotten primordial language.
Was it the tango that seduced her and ultimately won her heart, or was it that silky Juana de Sol Cabernet Sauvignon? Who can tell in these affairs of the heart? I only know we were still together in Mendoza for the annual Fiesta Nacional de la Vendemia (National Grape Harvest Festival) in March, still dancing Tango, and sharing Juana de Sol Cabernet Sauvignon with each other and our special friends.
Ah, the Argentine tango – it’s a sensual dance, seductive in its complexity. In 1916, American modern dancer Isadora Duncan visited Argentina, and after being introduced to tango, said: "I had never danced Tango…. My first steps were timid, but the feeling of the languid music caused my body to respond to the voluptuousness of the dance. Soft as a caress, torrid as love under the midday sun, dangerous as a tropical forest".
It is a dance not performed from the feet, the hips or the arms but from the heart and soul. In this intimate form of communication, our individual movements become our words. Each time we dance together, we speak to each other’s hearts and souls through movement. There is no thinking in Tango, only feeling.
In Tango, it is the man’s duty to begin to talk with his body and for the woman, with her body, to know how to respond. And so the mind grows silent and instincts take over, until the dance becomes sensual, and you discover that what you’ve learned is just a forgotten primordial language.
Was it the tango that seduced her and ultimately won her heart, or was it that silky Juana de Sol Cabernet Sauvignon? Who can tell in these affairs of the heart? I only know we were still together in Mendoza for the annual Fiesta Nacional de la Vendemia (National Grape Harvest Festival) in March, still dancing Tango, and sharing Juana de Sol Cabernet Sauvignon with each other and our special friends.
