Wine cellar at Pulenta Estates
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Barrel tasting at El Lagar Carmelo Patti
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Carmelo Patti wine tour
El Lagar Carmelo Patti is one of the best wineries to visit in Mendoza. It's not the facility like Vistalba or the view like Ruca Malén that make the visit great, but the personalized tour given by the winemaker himself, Carmelo Patti. A knowledgeable and friendly man, it's clear that the wine maker has passion and pride for what he does. When other wineries would ask what wineries we've visited and we mentioned Carmelo Patti, generally a big smile would come to the tour guide's face.
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Welcome to Achaval-Ferrer
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Traditional wines from Argentina: La Rural, makers of Trumpeter
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La Rural Winery
One of the best historic wineries in Argentina is La Rural. The tour of the winery is weak, with a large group of visitors and a one wine tasting. However, the winery itself is interesting to see, with it's artsy and atmospheric tasting room and wine museum.
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Supreme wines of Argentina: O. Fournier
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O. Fournier's story
Spanish winery owner Jose Manuel Ortega has positioned himself in three of the best wine-producing regions in the world: Mendoza, Argentina; Rioja, Spain; and Maula Valley, Chile. The Argentine wines of O. Fournier come from grapes planted in the Valley de Uco, one of the high altitude regions that produce fruit touted to be some of the best in Argentina.
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Ozomatli: Latin Hybrid sound out of LA
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Perhaps one of the best known Latin hip-hop groups, Ozomatli is certainly one of my favorites. The group formed in Los Angeles, but many of its members hail from all over Latin America, providing a fascinating hybrid sound.
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Music from Spain: Jarabe de Palo
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From Barcelona, music group Jarabe de Palo is a great, upbeat Spanish rock band. The world jarabe in Spanish means syrup (in a medicinal sense) while palo means stick. As the saying goes, a naughty child needs a "jarabe de palo" to start acting right. The main indication the band is Spanish is in the singer's accent, Pau Donés, where "z" and "c" sound like "th" in English (corazón, or heart, sounds like corathón).
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Lexical Approach of learning a language
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Lexical Approach
In the 1990s, Michael Lewis wrote two books outlining his language learning theory: The English Verb and The Lexical Approach. According to the Lexical Approach, students should learn 'chunks' of language, since language is made up of collocations, idioms, and fixed phrases.
Collocations: are words that 'sound right' together, even though there is no grammatical reason they should be used together:
- gin & tonic (but never tonic & gin)
- high probability (but good chance)
- completely useless (not entirely useless)
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Language Theories of the 1970s: Natural and Functional Approaches, CLL, CLT
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Language Theories in the 1970s
The 1970s brought about several methods of language learning, many of which have influenced modern methods.
