Freshly baked bread

Bread and Wine

How wonderful it is to smell and taste a crusty loaf of bread fresh out of a stone oven. It is intoxicating! Most of us don’t actually pair bread and wine but why not? I love grabbing a piece of bread just like the one pictured above, eating it plain, and sipping a light-to-moderate red wine. This photo was taken at a wine lodge in Mendoza, Argentina. It is called Posada Salentein and run by the Bodega Salentein winery. The chefs at Posada Salentein have a beautiful stone oven that they begin heating in the morning hours. They cook empanadas, vegetables, and bread in the stone oven.

Heating stone oven in the morning

The oven is perfect for the bread

The smell of freshly cooked bread is intoxicating

Another Argentine delight – Empanadas

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