Casa Magoni

The house

Editorial review · reviewed on October 11, 2026

Camillo Magoni arrived in Guadalupe Valley (Valle de Guadalupe) in 1965 with a diploma from the enology school in Alba, in Piedmont, and with an idea: to see which grapes would grow in this land. Born in Morbegno, in Lombardy, he had graduated in 1962, and at the invitation of Angelo Cetto he spent more than four decades leading the winemaking at L.A. Cetto.

Meanwhile, with his family, he built an experimental field where more than 70 varieties from different parts of the world now grow. Piedmont also left its mark in Nebbiolo, the grape that appears most often on the labels of the house, in its Casa Magoni and Magoni Reserva lines.

For more than fifteen years the family made wine without commercial aims. Bodegas Magoni released its first line to the public in 2013, with a rule the winery sums up this way: each wine should show the character of its variety and come only from grapes of its own vineyards. Today the second generation runs it, with Camillo as winemaker.

The tasting room is at the km 83 marker of the highway from Tecate to El Sauzal, opens every day, and serves food from a menu of its own. Private tastings admit groups of up to twelve people. If you want to gauge how many grapes fit in the valley, start with the Experimental line, made in small volumes.