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Baja California is a wine producing region. If you go to any art opening @ CECUT you might brush up against one -- but others get served, too. Ask to see the bottle when it's poured if you want to know what you're tasting. Local varietals include a merlot and nebiola, cabernet, sweet "white" (actually pinkish) zinfandel sometimes called a rosé, chardonay and... hey, Dan'l, what's that lightly sweet German one... you know, the Castillo something or another from Cetto? No? Well, frack dude, what am I going to put down now? Huh? Voice recognition what do you meannnn.... oh oh... maybe Rhinewine?....
Ahem. Hem. Well, L.A. Cetto, Santo Tomas, Domecq, those are some of the names thrown around. The grapes grow in the coastal valleys and hillside slopes south of here, toward the first mountains, where the clouds and fog sometimes come, and the sun is in the southern edge of a northern climate.
L.A. Cetto has been producing wines for several generations. Their tasting room (and winery tours until 3:00 p.m.) is located in the inland eastern portions of the Guadalupe Valley, on the highway from Ensenada to Tecate. They also have a facility in Tijuana just up Canyon Johnson from Constitucion Avenue. Put on sumptious wine-tasting evenings with dinner and music. Daniel even worked one night for nothing as a favor to his friend who'd been hired to cater the food. But he got drunk and they never hired him again. If they slip us some money we'll say even more about them, but for you, yes, here's a hyperlink. Goshdiddlywinkers but we LOVE esta tecnologia.
IF YOU WANT TO BUY Baja California wine, well, we suggest the simplest thing of all: go to a supermarket. On Revolution Avenue, there's the big GIGANTE which you can enter between 2nd and 3rd next door to the parking lot. Liquor stores also carry wines, but check the prices if you're shopping for the best value. One problem is that the wineries in Baja California just don't make as much wine as the California vintners, and so their prices tend to be not as cheap as a similar product north of the border. Brandy is the big selling product in Mexico, and pure wines come in second. What are the prices: roughtly, we're talking between four and ten dollars a bottle.
The best deal of all, and the most enjoyable (if you have a designated driver) is to visit the wineries out in Guadalupe Valley. Tasting and sales of all their varieties.
REMEMBER: California residents (OVER 21 years of age) can only bring one or two bottles north across the border, per each adult.
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