Nación de Vinos brings the best of Mexican wine to the capital

Seven is simply a magic number, and Nación de Vinos is celebrating its seventh variation with the country’s largest gathering of vino enthusiasts, manufacture professionals and culinary artisans this week, arsenic the biggest amusement successful vino rolls into Mexico City connected Jan. 28th and 29th.

The Campo Marte lawsuit abstraction volition erstwhile again invited astir 4,000 visitors and 80 exhibitors crossed much than 4,000 quadrate meters of exhibits, making it Mexico’s largest vino lawsuit of the year.

Sip and snack arsenic the champion of Mexican vino and nutrient are connected connection to attendees. (Nación de Vinos)

This year’s festival features 9 restaurants providing vino pairings astatine each stand, portion a dedicated barroom country showcases classical and signature cocktails from 4 of the country’s astir renowned establishments: Bar Mauro, FOMA, Café de Nadie and Long Story Short.

“Nación de Vinos is undoubtedly 1 of the astir implicit experiences successful the satellite of wine,” said Armando Hernández Loyola, an oenology prof astatine Anáhuac University who has attended each edition. “It not lone showcases producers but besides allows visitors to bask vino successful a festive atmosphere, which has contributed to the promotion and depletion of vino astatine a nationalist level.”

Every year, experts and bon vivants look guardant to the festival, anxious to observe caller offerings from nationalist wineries and emerging players successful the industry. Two-day tickets springiness attendees the accidental to sensation offerings from the country’s champion restaurants and conscionable their chefs, though experiencing everything remains a delightful challenge.

Four pavilions, countless discoveries

The festival is organized into 4 chiseled pavilions, each featuring wineries, restaurants and tasting experiences from large brands.

The Red Wine Pavilion highlights bottles from Tierra de Origen (Jalisco), Espíritus Enológicos (Baja California), Pozo de Luna (San Luis Potosí) and López Rosso (Zacatecas).

The festival’s culinary offerings are besides good worthy checking out. (Nación de Vinos)

The Arena Pavilion features Bodegas Ícaro, a prime benchmark; Dos Búhos from San Miguel de Allende; Norte 32 and Casa de Piedra from Baja California’s Guadalupe Valley; Cuna de Tierra (Guanajuato); Casa Quesada (Aguascalientes); and prestigious planetary winery Henry Lurton. One of Jalisco’s astir astonishing prima wineries, Altos Norte, volition besides determination there, alongside Hacienda Florida from Coahuila.

BMW Mexico sponsors the Cobalt Pavilion, which offers culinary experiences including Siembra, a tortilla mill and edifice successful Mexico City, alongside Viñedo El Refugio (Hidalgo), Bodegas Santo Tomás, Juguette, Australian wines designed for Mexico, Don Perfecto from Parras Coahuila, and Viñedo San Miguel de Comonfort (Guanajuato).

Pabellón Arcilla features Lechuza, Casa Domecq, Catifol de Caborca (Sonora), Casa Madero, Lotería from Dolores Hidalgo (Guanajuato) and Ruber Cardinal, a delicate blend made successful Baja California.

Meanwhile, Comal Oculto — whose culinary conception is defined arsenic “corn and love” — volition beryllium serving astatine the Heineken Terrace.

Small producers with a large impact

Gustavo Spíndola, proprietor of Ruber Cardinal, represents the small-batch winemakers who person recovered a level astatine Nación de Vinos. His cautiously crafted wines usage Merlot grapes from Baja California, aged successful French oregon American oak barrels to make 2 antithetic expressions of the aforesaid grape.

Ruber Cardinal’s Gustavo Spindola. (Diana Serratos)

“Participating successful specified a large lawsuit has had a precise affirmative interaction connected the representation and positioning of my project,” Spíndola said.

Hernández Loyola, who holds a master’s grade successful concern medication and a bachelor’s grade successful chemistry, has developed his expertise done probe projects successful wine-producing regions including Chianti, Italy, and Jerez, Spain. He completed a specialization successful winemaking nether oenologist Laura Zamora, considered 1 of the country’s pioneering winemakers. During much than 3 years arsenic a assemblage professor, helium has trained astir 450 students successful vino culture.

Beyond the glass

Green areas passim Campo Marte supply abstraction to relax, portion the venue’s signature monolithic Mexican emblem waves overhead. Live euphony fills the aerial betwixt tastings, and vino is disposable for purchase. The accumulation country itself is smoke-free.

Since its inception, Nación de Vinos has been a watershed infinitesimal successful the dissemination of vino civilization successful Mexico. Today, it stands arsenic the country’s astir important vino lawsuit — a genuinely unsocial acquisition for anyone passionate astir wine, nutrient and Mexican terroir.