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A Safety Guy in Colombia

Note · Worth knowing · 9 September 2026

Tinto is not wine

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Tinto here is a small black coffee. It travels the streets in thermos flasks, arrives in a cup the size of a thimble and costs a few hundred pesos.

Vino tinto is red wine, and this is the trap: order it and a bottle arrives. For a glass you have to ask for a copa de vino tinto. A mistake you make once.

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