perfume / fragance: a sign of the arrival of spring is the flowers.

If there is a sign of the arrival of spring is the flowers. Exit onto the streets, parks, your garden if you have it, and observe how plants and trees are already full of buds and buttons. Colorful welcome for the hot season of the year. And if a spring wine could be called, is made from the Torrontes grape, which together with the malbec, has become Argentina's signature grape.

If you enjoy scented wine will be happy to drink a copy of this variety, cold on a warm spring afternoon Ochoa, who is about to happen.

To explain the origin of the strain torrontés two versions, the first that he was born in Galicia, Spain, the other a spontaneous cross between the native girl named Argentine grape country called Chile and mission in California, grape who made the first wines in Mexico and they believe is the same as the list of Canary tight and perfumed Muscat of Alexandria.

In Argentina, where it currently occurs and is presumed, three kinds of torrontés: the Rioja (La Rioja Argentina, one of the oldest areas in wine production, although it is small), the Mendoza (Mendoza) and the sanjuanina (San Juan). It was the first to grow grapes in this country, achieved by the missionaries and Santiago del Estero cleric, who in 1557 planted the first vine cuttings from Chile, the mixtures of strains carried by them led to the criolla grape and the torrontés.

This strain produces a dry white wine with a very special fragrance, white flowers like jasmine and orange blossoms, and nutmeg, apricots, with a slightly bitter end to citrus peel, but must be careful during processing because of their tendency towards bitterness. The Torrontes grape is an unappetizing in appearance is almost golden color is rich and raw. It is grown especially in the province of Salta (where the most planted variety is the torrontés Rioja), to northern South American country, in La Rioja (where even the Cooperativa La Rioja produces a sparkling dry), and in the Cafayate Valley, emerged from the delta of the rivers Calchaque and Santa Maria, in northern Argentina, land of dust and rocks, gorges, red sand, rocks like the Gorge of the Arrows, where wines are produced sharper and cleaner.

A Spanish areas where they are grown in torrontés is Mondéjar in Castile and La Mancha, while claiming that their characteristics are not entirely similar.

A glass of cold torrontés is ideal to start a meal with snacks and fresh inputs (fresh fruit, sandwiches with creamy celery, or raw mushrooms with fresh cheeses, pastries, fresh cheeses), and raw seafood, green salad with strawberries Fresh pears and peaches, pasta with walnuts, chicken or fish with lemon, or you can close the menu and accompanying fresh citrus dessert. Personally I prefer to drink it with dessert. If you the scent of flowers is not something you like, then, avoid it.