Our next wine tasting will be at one of our favorite Santa Barbara restaurants, Corazon Cocina, where traditional family recipes are presented with a contemporary flourish. Everything is made fresh and full of flavor!
This Inside Wine SB Meetup will be different than our usual events which center on a winemaker talking about her or his wines. This will be a more social event, with time for us to sample three 2-oz pours of Monte Xanic wine, enjoy delicious and filling appetizers. and meet new friends!
There's a lot of buzz about the wines from the Valley of Guadalupe in Northern Baja, not just among local oenophiles but in the New York Times, Vogue, Wine Enthusiast, Town & Country, and more. As Barron's reported, "vino Mexicano is not only becoming more popular, it’s also getting better. And what’s more thrilling still is that winemakers south of the border are bottling unexpected expressions of some of the world’s most well-known grapes, such as Cabernet Sauvignon. In Mexico’s west coast, Valle de Guadalupe (or Valle, as locals call it) has recently emerged as one of the most exciting up-and-coming wine destinations. Thanks to a climate that is somewhat similar to the Mediterranean, this picturesque valley some 90 minutes from San Diego, has been producing wine for centuries, but it wasn’t until the last couple of decades that the quality has markedly improved."
Wine Enthusiast points out: "few areas have leaped as significantly in quality over the last several years as Mexico. While its warm climate delivers full-bodied, fruit-forward wines with ease, producers are replacing power with balance, complexity and variety experimentation...The rise in quality is [due to] leading-edge technology in the wineries and vineyards, quality lab analyses, hiring experienced winemakers—and also that so many vineyards have decades of age, bringing complexity in a natural way."
Monte Xanic was founded in 1987 by Hans Backoof, Sr., a scientist of German ancestry. His winery was the first in the Valley of Guadalupe to make high-quality wines with modern winemaking techniques.
You can read the praise of Monte Xanic and "Valle" wines here, just remove the spaces to get the link (Meetup masks external URLs, so I this is a work-around): https:/ /ww w.besoimports. com/press
Our Meetup group is not-for-profit, we pay to use the Meetup platform, pay our vendors and structure our events so Meridith and I attend for free, but we don't make a profit from our events. We've tried to make this event as inexpensive as possible. In this time of high food and wine prices, $40/person is a great deal!
Please join us by securing your spot today.
co-organizers Tama and Meridith
If you have any questions or have trouble signing up, please TEXT Tama at 805 302 0565 or send a message via Meetup.
Our appetizers will be housemade chips with beans and mole sauce, chicken flauta with salad and 1/2 quesadilla per person. If you'd like dessert or other items, you can order and purchase from the restaurant directly. It should be enough for a light dinner, though. Vegetarian flauta is possible if you let Tama know at least 3 days before the event.
