The Santo Tomás Estate
- Santo Tomás is the oldest winery in the Baja region. Jesuit missionaries first established vineyards, (now privately held) in 1791, just 5 years after the US signed its Constitution. Over a century later, in 1888 the land was purchased by Francisco Adonegui and Spaniard Miguel Olmart and became Mexico's first large scale commercial winery.
- The largest landowners in the 5 valleys of northern Baja, Santo Tomás has access to some of the best fruit available. The quality and balance of their wines is a signature of the estate.
- Winemaker Laura Zamora passed the baton she held since 2003 to the talented Christina Pino in 2019, and the first results of Christina's efforts are all that we'd hoped for. Expect to see this estate delivering increasingly high levels of quality. Christina plans to lower yields, increase quality, and work towards fully organic farming.
Total production: 22 wines, 130,000 cases
2022 Sauvignon Blanc - Santo Tomás
Tasting Notes and Drinking Window:
A small production wine within one of the larger estates in Mexico, this Sauvignon Blanc is a champion of the estate and a wine that ranks as winemaker Christina Pino's favorite. The 2022 vintage represents her third at the estate and anyone who has been tracking this effort will immediatly fall in love with this latest iteration. Having gained a better understanding of the land and plants at her fingeretips, this vintage shows more precision, more elegance, and more lift than its predecessors. Bravo to Christina for continuing the push towards greatness.
250 cases made
Drinking window: Now - 5 years
Vintage:
2022
Blend:
100% Sauvignon Blanc
Producer:
Santo Tomás
Winemaker:
Christina Pino- Spanish, lives in Mexico
Vineyards:
Santo Tomas is the largest land owner in the region and this Merlot comes form a selection of the younger vines spread throughout the holdings. The range of soil types is vast but here they are mainly working with sandy soils that have some iron rich clay mixed in as well.
Aging:
Fermented and aged in stainless steel tanks
Farming:
Sustainable
Alcohol:
12.1%
