What does tinto mean in Colombia?
In Colombia a tinto is a small black coffee, ordered between friends in a Bogotá café and served without pause through a wake; in Spain the same word means a glass of red wine. Around it: la finca is the farm, la cosecha the harvest and el recolector the picker.
Ordering a tinto
- In Colombia a tinto is a small black coffee, not red wine; it is served without pause through a wake and ordered between friends in a Bogotá café.
- Coger is a normal verb in Spain and Colombia but rude in Mexico and Argentina, where people say agarrar or tomar.
- el tinto
- a small black coffee
- la finca
- the farm
- la cosecha
- the harvest
- el recolector
- the picker
- el grano
- the bean
- coger
- to pick, to take
- don / doña
- a mark of respect before a first name
Mientras tanto se sirve café, tinto, sin azúcar o con mucha, y no se deja de servir en toda la noche.Meanwhile coffee is served, tinto, without sugar or with a great deal, and it does not stop all night.
Para mí un tinto, por favor.A black coffee for me, please.
Don Alberto tiene una finca de café cerca de Salento.Don Alberto has a coffee farm near Salento.
More about Coffee: the finca and the tinto
- How is coffee harvested on a Colombian finca?
- What is Colombia's Paisaje Cultural Cafetero?
- Coffee: the finca and the tinto