Baja California Sur Wineries: Mission Grapes and New Vineyards, Mexico

Baja California Sur is where wine in the Californias began, under the Jesuit missions. From the early 18th century the missionaries planted the Mission grape. The chain of missions that planted vines on the peninsula started with the Misión de Loreto in 1697, and Juan de Ugarte spread the Mission grape, which is still in use.

In San José and San Miguel de Comondú, La Purísima, and San Javier, small producers still make mission-style wine, and since 2011 a festival in November has sought to rescue that tradition. Today the state also has newer projects in Valle de Santo Domingo and Todos Santos.

Todos Santos is about an hour from La Paz on federal highways 1 and 19, and Viñedo Las Tinajas is at the km 50 marker of the Todos Santos to La Paz highway. Valle de Santo Domingo is a farming valley in the municipality of Comondú, around Ciudad Constitución, on the Transpeninsular highway north of La Paz.

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