Argentine Drink Recipes
Mate passed around the table, fernet con cola at every party, Malbec from Mendoza and a submarino on a cold morning: these are the drinks Argentines actually share.
+5Argentina’s drinking culture starts with yerba mate, the bitter green infusion sipped through a bombilla and passed from hand to hand. After that comes fernet con cola, the unofficial national cocktail, the Malbec and Torrontés of the Andean vineyards, and small rituals like the submarino, a bar of chocolate dropped into hot milk. Below you’ll find how to prepare each one at home.
Yerba Mate
Everything about mate: choosing the yerba, curing the gourd, the right water temperature and the etiquette of the ronda.
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A Guide to Argentine Drinks
No drink is more Argentine than yerba mate: one gourd, one bombilla, one thermos, shared in a circle from morning to night, and drunk cold as tereré when summer arrives. In bars the order is fernet con cola, the bitter-and-sweet highball that Córdoba made a national habit, or a bottle of Quilmes. At the table it is wine: Malbec from Mendoza and Torrontés from Salta. Cafés run on café con leche and medialunas, winter mornings on a submarino, and the countryside on mate cocido brewed like tea.
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