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Uncle Cristobal has returned
The Mysterious Cities of Gold. As a child, this television series fascinated you. Leaning in front of your television set, you were dreaming of adventure, of climbing the pyramids of Machu Picchu and of piercing the innumerable secrets of the pre-Columbian civilizations. Dazzled by the mayan legends, the inca architecture, it seemed astonishing to you then that men could leave in search of gold without raising the head towards all these wonders.
It is with the same look, admiring and amazed that, as an adult, you contemplate the liquid with golden reflections that lines the walls of your tasting glass. And you suddenly think of all those sad conquistadores who got lost, in the jungle as in themselves, in search of a chimerical El Dorado, without ever seeing the treasures that grew at their feet and that they trampled on at the same time as the soul of the people.
Long neglected by the Spaniards, sugar cane was nevertheless well established in South America, and aguardiente, although not always recommended, was already consumed. History, commerce, genius and human drama took care of the rest, and today the continent is populated with haciendas whose sublime architecture is matched only by the sweetness of the nectar they produce.
Soft, sweet, accessible, the Hispanic ron also knows how to be deep, complex, luminous. Whether you are a connoisseur or a beginner, there is a multitude of them. And touring the spirits of South America is a noble goal, but as vain as searching for those mysterious golden cities that lit up your eyes as a child.
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