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Whitey and Scooner on the road

Posted by djkwine | 18th March 2009

2-19-09 San Felipe
We are on are second day in Baja. We took the Tecate border entrance and were successful in getting out tourist cards with no problems. It was a smooth drive through Tecate to the Valley of Guadalupe where the wine district of Mexico is. I have visited the area numerous times before and was never really impressed. The wineries are pretty scattered and for such a young wine region the attitudes and hospitality really lack. I remember on my last visit we went into a winery and ask politely to taste some wines. We got the cellar worker or some other guy whom knew nothing about the wines and let us try three of there crap wines for 10 bucks. I looked on their menu of prices and saw a bottle for $125 US. I questioned and asked if that was a mistake and it was meant to be pesos which would have made more sense since the exchange rate was about 10:1 at the time making the wine about $12.50. But no I stood

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