Discover Baja California's Thriving Wine Region Meghan McCarty - Southern California Public Radio
go to original July 21, 2013

Hidden Gems: Baja California Wine (Peter Greenberg)

The drinking started early on the 10-person tour bus down to Baja, but this is not your typical border booze cruise for drunken frat boys. This is a group of discerning foodies on a pilgrimage to the Mexican mecca of fine wine.

The tour is headed to the Valle de Guadalupe, just inland from the beach town of Ensenada. It’s a majestic place of wide open desert vistas hemmed in by mountains dotted with cacti and old haciendas. The van winds slowly over the dusty dirt roads, and you can almost hear the plaintive strumming of a spanish guitar drifting languorously on the breeze.

It’s like Napa 30 years ago they say, though it's doubtful that anyone in the early days of Napa had a setup quite as slick as the one at our first stop, Las Nubes.

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