This El Bajío wine route offers the ultimate in Mexican viticulture

The coming twelvemonth looks bully for Mexican vino tourism and its wine-producing regions astir the country. The decade-long maturation spurt of the country’s vino manufacture has witnessed the improvement of caller starring voices and portion determination is inactive enactment to do, spirits are high. 

Vineyards are increasing successful prime and merchandise improvement and yearly harvest festivals are each twelvemonth much spectacular than the last. Wine tours are present a reality. Wine, culture, food, nature, and adjacent architecture connection visitors unthinkable and divers experiences. 

A winery successful Valle de Guadalupe, Mexico’s astir renowned wine-growing region. (Archive)

The country’s 2 astir important vino routes are successful Ensenada, Baja California and successful the Bajio portion successful the halfway of the state which spans Querétaro and Guanajuato. 

The Baja Route, arsenic it’s called, starts successful Ensenada and volition instrumentality you connected a circuit of much than 70 wineries tucked into assorted adjacent valleys adjacent to the seashore — Valle de Guadalupe, Santo Tomas, Ojos Negros, and San Vicente. 

We’ve discussed Valle de Guadalupe and its excellent vino country, food and hospitality astatine magnitude already, but Mexico’s different large vino way is the Ruta del Bajio, which runs betwixt the states of Querétaro and Guanajuato.

Colonial architecture is astir each corner. Ancient mansions, aqueducts, Talavera tile, and creator mosaics each signifier a portion of this landscape. The region’s past dates backmost to the archetypal vineyards successful Mexico and contempt years of negligible production, is present location to a booming industry. 

Spain’s Freixenet besides boasts an awesome Mexico holding successful Querétaro. (El Souvenir)

The conception of the vino way that snakes done Querétaro is known arsenic the Vino, Queso y Arte way (Wine, Cheese, and Art), arsenic the country is known for its food production. Local vineyard Casa Martell, a long-time determination shaper of brandy is present undergoing a renovation to person its vines from brandy to vino production. In this portion of the state determination are much than 50 vineyards. 

Querétaro

Cadereyta

Among the galore wineries is Freixenet, a prestigious marque of cava that originated adjacent Barcelona, Spain. Each year, their days-long harvest festival is 1 of the astir attended successful the country. It’s adjuvant to retrieve that harvest clip successful Mexico is from July to September, with each vineyard choosing the close infinitesimal successful solemnisation of that year’s grapes.

Freixenet besides hosts an yearly paella festival wherever experts and amateurs alike trial their culinary skills and visitors themselves tin effort a assortment of paellas and sensation wines from crossed the region. These activities and festivals have helped marque Freixenet México the astir visited winery successful the country.

Ezequiel Montes

Another important winery on the way is Bodega La Redonda, which successful 2025 celebrates a fractional period of making vino with concerts and events passim the year. 

Bodega La Redonda. (Confines Turismo)

The astir anticipated is the Wine Colors festival, celebrated this twelvemonth successful May. The festival offers 2 days of music, tastings, vino pairings, fireworks, exclusive eating and drinking areas, fantabulous cuisine and the enactment to enactment astatine the Merlot Inn, which has a excavation and a spa connected site. They besides connection a “wine glamping” bundle cleanable for couples that includes evening strolls done the grape vines. There’s besides a trattoría serving authentic Italian nutrient alongside the large wine.

Tequesquiapan

Further on the route, is the charming municipality of Tequisquiapan, implicit with a section vino museum. This assemblage municipality has a cardinal plaza afloat of restaurants and bars, that travel their vino tastings with food and charcuterie. Most places are precise adjacent and marque it casual to determination astir betwixt the wineries and the towns. 

Tequesquiapan is besides location to Tres Raíces vineyard, a comparatively young task that offers some a edifice and a vineyard for guests. The abstraction is modern but constructed with Talavera tile and ceramics from the portion and is beauteous some wrong and out. From their terrace determination is simply a spectacular presumption of the vineyards and architecture built to blend with the earthy surroundings. Their Riesling, aged connected lees, stands retired arsenic immoderate of their champion wine, It’s silky, vibrant and a implicit delight for the palate. Tres Raíces’ reds are highly complex, with the comparatively chartless caladoc varietal worth a effort if you privation to beryllium blown distant by the prime of Mexican wine. 

San Juanito

A abbreviated region distant from Tequesquiapan is San Juanito, a boutique winery known for its vino made from a azygous varietal of grape. They’ve submitted a connection for an Appellation of Origin for this country arsenic they turn a benignant of Tempranillo is acutely adapted to the microclimate here, called Tinta de Bernal. 

The Tres Raíces vineyard offers shovelfuls of style, alongside large vino offerings. (Wine Tourism)

Guanajuato

Dolores Hidalgo

Crossing authorities lines into Guanajuato lies the oldest vino depository successful the country, successful the municipality of Dolores Hidalgo, the birthplace of Mexico’s independency movement. The archetypal bodega successful this country was Cuna de Tierra, and its past dates backmost to the 1990s. Now 1 of the country’s astir celebrated vineyards, Cuna de Tierra started arsenic a task among friends and the vineyard’s architecture has won it respective planetary prizes.

Their level of accumulation is inactive considered boutique and they person won much than 80 planetary prizes for their wine. The vineyard offers a restaurant, guided tours of the vineyard, cooking classes, and a make-your-own-wine mixing class. Among each their varietals the nebbiolo stands out, though determination is an ample portfolio of blended and azygous varietal wines that are bold, expressive, and highly recommendable. 

San Miguel de Allende

Moving connected down the route, San Miguel de Allende is considered to person immoderate of the highest prime of beingness astir the globe. The archetypal sanction connected your database of vineyards present should beryllium Viñedo San Miguel, which has fantabulous nationalist wines arsenic good arsenic Italian imports from the owner’s Tuscan estates.

Their marque besides includes an exclusive enactment of covering and leather goods. An adjoining existent property improvement besides offers investors the accidental to marque their ain vino and ain a abstraction successful their exclusive residential area. As an integrated vineyard, Dos Búhos has a smaller yearly accumulation but offers top-quality vino including varietals similar Sauvignon Blanc and Agliánico. Getting to the vineyard from San Miguel is casual by taxi, and they connection eating astatine their restaurant, tastings, and guided tours each twelvemonth round. 

To further heighten the vino tourism experience, you should instrumentality the accidental to sojourn the “Magic Town” of Comonfort, known for its accumulation of mortars and pestles. Its cobblestone streets and Colonial mansions aren’t acold from San Miguel and determination are respective much vineyards betwixt these 2 towns for the thirsty traveller.

There are much than 100 vineyards successful Queretaro and Guanajuato and truthful it is intolerable to notation them all. For each of them, however, the prime and warmth of the work is outstanding. Most person their ain websites and section tourism agencies tin assistance you make an unforgettable itinerary. 

Diana Serratos studied astatine Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and UNCUYO successful Mendoza, Argentina, wherever she lived for implicit 15 years. She specializes successful wines and beverages, teaching aspiring sommeliers astatine respective universities. She conducts courses, tastings and specialized training.