Erling Haaland drinks mate. On October 18, 2026, the Manchester City and Norway striker posted a selfie holding a gourd of yerba mate and publicly thanked three Argentine footballers for introducing him to what he...
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The Mundial de la Yerba Mate 2026: Inside the First-Ever World Championship
Yerba mate just had its biggest moment on the world stage. In June 2026, Buenos Aires hosted the first-ever Mundial de la Yerba Mate — a world championship that treated yerba mate with the same technical rigor as wine...
Lungro: The Italian Town That’s Been Drinking Mate for 150 Years
When you think of Italy, you picture espresso, cappuccino, wine, limoncello — anything but a round of yerba mate. Yet high in the mountains of Calabria, in southern Italy, there’s a town where mate has been part...
