There’s certainly nothing wrong with the classic wine country experience: tours through the barrel-filled cellars, tastings overlooking the lush, rolling vineyards. But once you’ve been there and done that, it might be time to try something a little – or a lot – less traditional. From underwater wine cellars in Croatia to wine-tasting cabanas in…
El sueño de Phil Gregory involucraba una hamaca y una copa de vino. Sin embargo, su realidad estaba en un estudio de música en Los Ángeles. Aquella fantasía casi idílica se volvió realidad 15 años después cuando su esposa Eileen y él conocieron Baja California. La pareja llegó por recomendación de un amigo, y después…
The road northeast from Ensenada, Mexico, to the Guadalupe Valley doesn’t feel like a route to wine country. The landscape is dry and scrubby — this is a desert, after all. Then the highway crests a hill, and the valley stretches below. It bears some resemblance to populated pockets of California’s Mojave Desert — splashes…
While I would never encourage anyone to abandon tequila, I would suggest perhaps considering a new addition to wet your palate: Mexican wines. This summer, I was introduced to a few blends produced in the Baja California Peninsula, particularly Valle de Guadalupe. The region is just a two-hour drive from San Diego, and minutes from…
Boats make excellent (and unexpected) roofs — they’re sturdy and waterproof by definition. And in Baja’s Guadalupe Valley, one of Mexico’s major wine regions, they shelter Vena Cava Winery. The winery is the creation of married architects Alejandro D’Acosta and Claudia Turrent, who run a design studio in Baja. read more GRIST, 2014
Text description provided by the architects. The Building is located in the most important wine region in Mexico, the Guadalupe Valley in Ejido El Porvenir which is 20 km east of the city of Ensenada, Baja California. It is a valley perpendicular to the sea, prevailing winds of Marian Humboldt current, surrounded by deserts and…
A lot of artists say they find inspiration in unlikely places. Architects Alejandro D’Acosta and Claudia Turrent, designers based in Ensenada, Mexico, most often find theirs digging through dumpsters and junkyards. Their work, however, isn’t remotely trashy. One of their latest creations, the Vena Cava winery in Baja’s Guadalupe Valley, is sleek and totally modern.…
OPENING A WINERY IN MEXICO’S Valle de Guadalupe freed Vena Cava owner Philip Gregory from the bounds of tradition to which most Old World winemakers are tethered. He’s free to be creative, growing a spread of organic grapes, offering a handful of ambitious blends, and opening a tasting room with an upside-down boat for a…