![]() ![]() ![]() The latter, for some unknown reason, languishes despite the quantity and quality of the milk produced here (we should remember that in this country there's more cattle than inhabitants and that extensive farming, thanks to the spaces available in this country, is still dominant) which should in fact favour cheese production. ![]() The cheese produced at his quesería Ventimiglia, a dairy farm where 50 Jersey cows, 80 goats and some 50 sheep live happily, makes the average national production soar. Since around ten years ago, the cheese of Mauricio Couly has also turned Cipolletti into a fine culinary destination. Lately, it has attracted the attention of wine lovers for some remarkable wine projects, especially Bodega Noemia, owned by Danish Hans Vinding-Diers, and Bodega Chacra, of Italian Piero Incisa della Rocchetta on which we reported here. It's famous for its orchards (which are called chacras here), mostly apples and pears, which grow and flourish on the green edge of the river Rio Negro. Cipolletti is a town of 87K inhabitants in South Argentina, in northern Patagonia. ![]()
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