Valle is not a new wine region — some vineyards date from the 1920s —<br />but this Mexican wine country is calling to millennials, with modern, design-y wineries and grit that can’t be found in Napa or Sonoma.<br />Millennials Answer the Call of Mexican Wine Country -<br />Tear yourself away from the picture-postcard Pacific views on Route 1, south of the border between California and Mexico, and you see Valle de Guadalupe undulating to the east, its Mars-like boulders and vast stretches of rose-gold-colored dirt belying the fact<br />that there is some pretty great wine being grown here.<br />Though its accommodations are costly — around $500 per night depending on room size — the<br />hotel, like the rest of the region, knows how to appeal to pop-culture-savvy travelers.<br />Four weeks later, they bought a hillside property that is now home to a winery, bed-and-breakfast<br />and Corazón de Tierra, whose tasting menu of farm-to-table Mexican fare clocks in at under $50 per person.<br />“It used to have a very stinky, particular smell; the wine was very bad,” said Hans<br />Backhoff, founder of Monte Xanic, a large, polished winery that opened in 1988.<br />“What used to happen in this part of the world was that no one had anything to do and now everyone has appointments every hour,” Mr. Gregory said.<br />Next to Lomita, La Cocina de Doña Esthela serves hangover-curing heaps of diner food like machaca<br />con huevo (eggs scrambled with beef, onions and green peppers), chilaquiles and lamb tacos.
