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Wineries in Mendoza

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Mendoza, Argentina has a growing winery industry that is attracting plentiful wine tourism. Wineries offer tours and tastings, and are usually in picturesque locations like Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza.

Manu Chao

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Manu Chao's latest album La Radiolina is selling like crazy from Barcelona to Buenos Aires...and perhaps in the United States as well, even though it's been 6 years since his last album. The singer/guitarist is hard to place in a single genre, since his music ranges from rock to reggae with some guitar-work influenced by flamenco. His lyrics are often political and choruses are catchy. His 1998 album Clandestino is a classic, packed with great songs that seem to be timeless.

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Wines from Vistalba

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The Vistalba winery

Tucked into the Vistalba neighborhood of Mendoza surrounded by grapevines and olive trees, the Vistalba winery is cutting edge yet boutique. The Pulenta brothers sold Trapiche winery, one of the biggest wineries and most well known internationally, and brother Carlos Pulenta started his own project, Vistalba. The winery was built in 2002 and is extremely modern and well-finished.

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Cuban hip-hop: Orishas

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You can't get much better Latin hip-hop than the Orishas or Ozomatli. The members of Orishas group are Cuban exiles, and many of their lyrics talk about life in Havana and the immigrant experience. From the song 'Emigrantes':

estoy cantando pa’mi gente
triste loco el que ha dejado atras
su sol, su gente, su camisa (estoy cantando pa' mi gente)
sin pensar tan lejos cambia todo
y la nostalgia te hace trizas (estoy cantando pa' mi gente)

i'm singing for my people
deeply sad for what he has left behind
his sun, his people, his shirt (i'm singing for my people)
without thinking that far away everything changes
and the nostalgia tears you to pieces (i'm singing for my people)

They lyrics are sometimes a contrast to the upbeat nature of the music, with its Cuban beats, keyboard, and horns that generally make you want to dance (or at least shimmy a little).

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