Baja California Sur: the wine market's last frontier.

Wines & Vines | September 1, 1997| | Copyright

At the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula, Baja California Sur (BCS) is Mexico's newest and most isolated state. Its capital, La Paz, beside the Sea of Cortez 120 miles north of Cabo San Lucas, lies just above the Tropic of Cancer, 1,000 miles of torturous, two-lane highway from the California border and 100 miles by ferry from the nearest mainland port. Though the state boasts one of the highest per capita incomes in Mexico, cost of living is correspondingly elevated: with an economy based on tourism, agriculture and fishing, and virtually no manufacturing or industry, ...

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