I was surprised to learn that the largest and one of the most modern resorts in the Valle de Guadalupe lies just a few hundred yards off of Highway 3 in the small town of San Antonio de Las Minas. But that wasn’t the only surprise. My family and I have stayed at a number of…
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ARTICLE: “Seven Days in The Valle” Chronicles Mexico’s HOTTEST Culinary Movement
SAN DIEGO, CA — Today Koenig Creative LLC announced the release of Seven Days in The Valle: Baja California’s Wine Country Cuisine by W. Scott Koenig. Koenig is known for his blog and alter ego, A Gringo in Mexico, where he reports on food and culture in the state of Baja California — just across…
TRIP REPORT: Escape to Baja’s Wine Country Tour, May 24, 2016
VALLE DE GUADALUPE – El Gringo rolled with his Señorita and 6 other north of the border adventurers yesterday for our second Escape to Baja’s Wine Country tour. After a quick drive to San Ysidro and a walk across the border, we rendezvoused with our tour guide Fernando Cuevas, our comfortable 10 passenger van awaiting to transport…
TRIP REPORT: Escape to Baja’s Wine Country Tour, April 5, 2014
VALLE DE GUADALUPE – Baja’s Valle de Guadalupe, just outside of Ensenada and 90 minutes from the border, has a history of farming and viticulture that dates back to the 16th century and the Spanish. In the early 20th century, Russian immigrants fleeing religious persecution from czarist Russia were granted farmland by the Mexican government where they planted…
TRIP REPORT: Escape to Baja’s Wine Country Tour, April 1, 2014
VALLE DE GUADALUPE – Baja’s Valle de Guadalupe, just outside of Ensenada and 90 minutes from the border, has a history of farming and viticulture that dates back to the 16th century and the Spanish. In the early 20th century, Russian immigrants fleeing religious persecution from czarist Russia were granted farmland by the Mexican government where they planted…
ARTICLE: Valle de Guadalupe: Of Wine and Russians in Baja California
VALLE DE GUADALUPE, BAJA CALIFORNIA – In the 90’s and much of the 2000’s, your Gringo loved nothing more than a day spent with family and/or friends just south of the border in Baja California. The drive from San Diego was quick and transporting…taking an hour or two to arrive at a family-owned restaurant in…
Escape to Baja California! 