By Luis Enrique for Wine-Republic.comWant to maximise your time on dating and drinking wine? Luis Enrique takes a look at speed dating possibilities in Mendoza.
Over the last few years, the compelling blend of drink tasting and suitable ice-breaking events has proven to be quite an interesting way to meet someone to hang out with and share a nice conversation, thus making available the jumpstart usually needed when trying to find a date or merely make a friend practically from scratch.
Beyond traditions
Whenever I attempt to put the speed dating issue on the table, the long-held view arises that mendocineans are way too conservative for that to really catch on.
Among the countless objections to my enquiry, it is argued that locals often seem mostly attached to timeless traditions like nightly trips to bars in the hope of meeting somebody new, along with the classic "asados" with friends and so on.
Actually, I have heard about some speed dating events that were held locally last year, with quite a handful of attendees, yet in searching for another one coming up this time of year I constantly find myself at a loose end.
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