VALLE DE GUADALUPE

In the last few years, Valle de Guadalupe has become the “it” travel and wine tasting destination for millennials to baby boomers. This wine region, about 65 miles south of the border and 15 miles northeast of Ensenada, has been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Condé Nast Traveler, Vogue, Travel & Leisure, Wine Enthusiast, Wine Spectator, Food & Wine, Sunset, among over 200 publications. Nestled in a peaceful valley surrounded by stunning, arid mountain ranges, the until recently, the Valle de Guadalupe was Baja California’s best-kept secret. Although it’s often compared to Napa Valley of days gone by, as the famed former New York Times restaurant critic Ruth Reichl put it: “the Valle is very much its own land. It is a place of extraordinary beauty. A place where the air is filled with the music of crowing roosters, and the vegetables are filled with extraordinary flavor.” Valle is not a new wine region,” wrote Sheila Marikar in The New York Times. “Some vineyards date from the 1920s — but this Mexican wine country is calling to millennials, with modern, design-y wineries and grit that can’t be found in Napa or Sonoma.  Valle has several notable restaurants, including TrasLomita, Malva, Olivia Fuego, and Fauna, all of which, and more, will be represented at Valle Wine & Food Festival. And its wines — from the sparkling wines and rosés to the acclaimed Nebbiolos and unique blends — are fast becoming competitive with the best of the world. In the words of wine guru James Suckling of Wine Spectator, Baja California “might be one of the last untapped great wine regions left in the world.” Valle is a unique and special place. If you’ve been here, you know that beauty. If you haven’t, we can’t wait for you to experience it for yourself.