Mexico

Question 1

What are the sub-regions of the Baja California?

Answer 1

Guadalupe Valley, Ojos Negros Valley, San Vicente Valley, Santo Tomás Valley, Valle de la Grulla, and Tecate

Question 2

What is the major growing region of Mexico?

Answer 2

Baja California

Question 3

What is the name of the most important viticultural region in Mexico? What grapes are grown there? What are the 4 subzones of this region?

Answer 3

Baja California: Zinfandel, Merlot, Cab Sav;

*Guadelupe Valley, Ojos Negros Valley, San Vincente Valley, Santo Tomas Valley

Question 4

What is the name of the oldest winery in America and when was it established?
Where is it?

Answer 4

Casa Madero
1597
Located in Coahuila - was a Jesuit Mission

Question 5

Valle de Guadalupe

Answer 5

Sub-appellation of the Baja Peninsula, Mexico

Question 6

Baja California

Answer 6

Most important viticultural region of Mexico

accounts for 85% of Mexico’s wine production - 57 wineries

Question 7

Current that cools the coastal wine region of Guadalupe

Answer 7

Humboldt Current

Question 8

The main 8 states that produce wine in Mexico?

Answer 8

From north to south, they are Baja California (Norte), Sonora, Coahuila, Durango, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, and Querétaro

Question 9

What are the Spanish wineries that settled in Mexico in the 70s?

Answer 9

Casa Pedro Domecq and Freixenet invested in the winemaking regions of Baja California and Querétaro.