Mexican wine: Difference between revisions

==History of wine making in Mexico==

[[File:Cavas Freixenet, Querétaro.JPG|thumb|right|[[Freixenet]] wine cellar in [[Querétaro]]]]

 

In the early colonial era, ships arriving to Mexico and Spain’s other colonies carried grapevines.<ref name="delsol"/> In certain areas, Spaniards found a native type of grapevine, but it did not lend itself well to winemaking.<ref name="vendimias"/> However, vines from Europe grew very well here, and they were planted in monasteries and haciendas in the states of [[Puebla]], Coahuila, [[Zacatecas]] and others.<ref name="delsol"/><ref name="chiff"/> In 1597, [[Casa Madero]] was founded by [[Lorenzo García]] in the town of [[Santa María de las Parras]] (Holy Mary of the Grapevines) as the oldest winery in the Americas.<ref name="chiff"/> This area of Coahuila soon became a major wine producer due to its climate and good supplies of water. The [[vine]]s that were established here were later exported to the [[Napa Valley]] in California and South America.<ref name="vendimias"/>