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The Mexican wine revolution
 


The Mexican wine revolution
10 September 2012  by Michael Schachner, WineEnthusiast
Cross the border from San Diego and you're in Baja California, Mexico, home to a historic wine region that's reinventing itself via boutique wines, top-flight restaurants and attractive lodging options.
One hundred years ago, Francisco Madero, Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata led the Mexican Revolution. Today, Mexico is going through a different sort of upheaval, a wine revolution in which small producers largely concentrated in Baja California’s Guadalupe Valley are charging ahead with the declaration, “Viva El Vino!”

The major force in this movement, the most significant evolution in Mexican wine since Spaniards first planted vineyards at the Santo Tomás Mission in 1791, has been Hugo D’Acosta. An internationally trained winemaker who came to Baja from mainland Mexico in the late 1980s to work at the large Santo Tomás winery, D’Acosta soon began to explore side projects in the Guadalupe Valley, including his family’s winery, Casa de Piedra.

Convinced that this rural valley was similar enough to California in terroir to produce excellent wines, ...Read on
 
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