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Baja Wine - Self-Guided Tour
Purchase Mexico's Top Wine Guide in the English language: The Guadalupe Grapevine 2012
We began promoting Mexico's Wine Country in 2002 via tours, articles, publications and film. We still sell our English language, 28 page ~ Self-Guided Baja Wine Tour: The Guadalupe Grapevine for $7 usd, same day mailing: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
You can save $$$$ and time with our Self-Guided Wine Tour Guide, updated map, directions, tips and we take you to the Best Wines, Culinary Delights and friendly people ~ all for $7....In addition, we're grape growers and winemakers, thus we understand the "true" dynamics of the Baja California wine country.
Viktoria Vidali comments: Your Wine Tour Guide is fabulous, Steve. It sure makes me want to go there again, taste the wines, try all the delicious foods from local restaurants you describe, and rediscover beautiful Mexican artisan-ship. Even more so, though, your guide offers an invaluable introduction to the PEOPLE that make it all happen -- that human connection is what sets your guide apart from others.
La Hacienda Restaurant
Hacienda Restaurant is another great culinary option in Guadalupe Valley for lunch or dinner, but the restaurant closes at 6 p.m. Their baked Halibut (shown in photo) in white wine sauce is a popular dish, and they have over 37 other options with large portions and great service. Turn right at the only stop light in the valley at San Antonio de las Minas, follow this road, and turn left at third stop sign, cross river bed to a tranquil setting under an ancient oak grove in the midst of a retail plant nursery. See Our Map # 4
Gourmet Pizza in Guadalupe Valley
Enjoy Gourmet Pizza at Ochentos Pizza, fresh salads, Italian-style cuisine ,featuring craft beer and local wines. Live music on the weekends. Located high on a hillside overlooking Mexico's premier wine country of San Antonio de las Minas.Great cuisine, fantastic sunset and valley views. Now open Tuesday thru Sunday from 1 pm until 10 pm. Special events can be held here for up to 300 people. Please call them for more details: Phone (646) 156-8305 or visit their Face Book page. Credit cards, pesos, US dollars accepted
Pizzas delivered in 30 minutes or less = forget it, we're on Mexican time ~ but we do deliver in the Valley.
Santo Tomas in Guadalupe Valley
Bodegas Santo Tomas is known as the oldest winery in Baja California being established in 1888, but it actually began in 1871 and was once named Rancho de los Dolores. Don Loreto Amador of the village of Santo Tomas purchased the former mission vineyards and started a commercial winery operation in that valley that lasted for thirty-one years. Don Francisco de Andonegui and Don Miquel Ormart purchased the winery in 1888, moving the main operation facilities to Ensenada in 1929. One year later in 1930, the governor of Baja California, Abelardo Rodriguez bought the winery, planted 2000 hectares of grapes and hired Italian enologist, Esteban Ferro as a consultant. Generally speaking, these two men are responsible from transforming the Mexican wine industry from growing substandard fruit to introducing and cultivating the classic French and Italian varietals with cuttings of Barbera, Nebbiolo, Dolcetto, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, and Grenache. This period in Baja California wine culture history marked the beginning of the propagation of world-class fruit and established the foundation of quality for future winemakers.