Take wine tour through vineyards of Mexico

The land between San Miguel de Allende and Dolores Hidalgo is covered with grapevines; there is the Wine Route in Guanajuato, a tour that will remind you of the freedom of the countryside and of the pleasure of drinking a good wine.

CUNA DE TIERRA

Guanajuato’s soil is fertile. Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, the father of the country, knew it well at the beginning of the 19th century, and that’s why he planted vines and taught the people of Dolores how to make wine. That knowledge was lost sometime after the Independence, but the land remembers. About 9 miles northwest of Dolores appears the one that

Juan Manchón, Ricardo Vega and Ramón Vélez take care of with affection.

It is Cuna de Tierra, a boutique winery of more than 30 hectares. Its clusters are cleaned by hand before being crushed; cold maceration is practiced, allowing the grapes to release their subtle aromas; and once the wine is turned, it is left to rest in French, Hungarian and American oak barrels. The tour to see the vines or the plots where raspberries, asparagus and artichokes grow is done in a cart from the 1950s. In the middle of the grapes – cabernet franc, cabernet sauvignon, merlot and syrah are among the varietals of the house – stands a tower made of adobe by architect Ignacio Urquiza. Inside, tastings and pairings take place.

DOS BÚHOS WINERY

On the road to Querétaro, 5 miles from San Miguel de Allende, one arrives at the site occupied by the vineyards of Bodega Dos Búhos. On three hectares of cultivation, on a gentle slope exposed to the south, the grapes – Tempranillo, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Moscato Giallo – grow