Mexico
Valle de Guadalupe
Dusty vineyard roads link cellar doors and open-fire kitchens across northern Baja.
The valley's roads are dust and the tables are not. Between the vine rows, open-fire kitchens and tasting rooms have made northern Baja the confident centre of Mexican wine.
Valle de Guadalupe is a working wine region whose valleys hold more than seventy wineries producing the great majority of Mexico's wine, with open-landscape restaurants built around local seafood, vegetables and live fire. Harvest months bring heat and events, while spring and autumn tour more gently. A booked driver keeps the focus on the glasses rather than the roads.
Couple
Book a driver, three tasting rooms and one long open-fire lunch.
Friends
Share a touring route through the valley's cellars and vineyard kitchens.
- Valle de Guadalupe is a working wine region of vineyards, tasting rooms and open-landscape restaurants.
- The valley corridor holds more than seventy wineries producing most of Mexico's wine.
- Spring and autumn tour gently, while harvest brings heat and events.
Open-fire kitchens stand between the vine rows; Javier Plascencia's Finca Altozano asador led the way.
The valley's more than seventy bodegas pour most of Mexico's wine at their own doors.
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