The best wines of Mesilla Valley

Discover the best wines of Mesilla Valley of New Mexico as well as the best winemakers of Mesilla Valley and estates of Mesilla Valley to visit. Explore the popular grape varieties of Mesilla Valley and the best vintages to taste in this region.

Top wines of Mesilla Valley by region

Looking for a good wine of Mesilla Valley of New Mexico among the top wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent wines of Mesilla Valley. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be appropriate with these exceptional wines. Learn more about the region and the wines of Mesilla Valley with technical and enological descriptions.

Great red wines of Mesilla Valley

See the top 100 best red wines of Mesilla Valley

Want to buy a red wine of Mesilla Valley cheap or sell a red wine of Mesilla Valley at the best price on the market? Find out which ones are popular and which ones to keep in your cellar for a few more years.

Food and wine pairing with a red wine of Mesilla Valley

Red wines from the region of Mesilla Valley go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef tongue with mushrooms or rabbit sautéed hunter.

The most used grape varieties in red wine of Mesilla Valley

  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Mesilla Valley

The wine region of Mesilla Valley is located in the region of New Mexico of United States. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Sombra Antigua or the Domaine Vcelovina produce mainly wines red. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Mesilla Valley are Merlot, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. We currently count 3 estates and châteaux in the of Mesilla Valley, producing 3 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture.

The wines of Mesilla Valley go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef or game (deer, venison).

News from the vineyard of Mesilla Valley

Walls’ hidden gems: Domaine Richaud, Cairanne

Whenever I visit Domaine Richaud, just outside the village of Cairanne, the winemaking team remind me of friends I made at free parties in the 1990s in fields and disused warehouses. I’m not talking dreadlocks and dogs on strings, but there’s always an anarchic frisson in the air. You get the impression they know how to enjoy themselves. Perhaps it’s to be expected, given the radical furrow Marcel Richaud has ploughed. He’s approaching 70 now, but still thrums with pent-up energy, his ice-blue e ...

Hospices de Beaune 2021 auction breaks per-barrel sales records

Despite the lowest number of barrels going under the hammer in 15 years, the 2021 Hospices de Beaune charity auction broke per-barrel price records, reaching an impressive total sales figure of €12.5m (£10.48m/$14.09m), excluding buyer premiums. The total was not too far behind last year’s high tally – close to €13.44 million – where almost double the number of barrels were sold. This year’s sale, with 362 lots, including seven barrels of spirits, reached an average price per lot of €34,980 (£29 ...

Pomerol granted permission for ‘exceptional’ irrigation

‘Climatic conditions’ and the requests of a ‘certain number of winegrowers’ were cited as the reasons for Jean-Marie Garde, president of the Pomerol appellation, to ask regulatory body Institut National de l’Origine et de la Qualité (INAO) to temporarily reverse the long-standing ban on irrigation. The favourable news was shared via emails seen by Decanter, with an accompanying letter from the INAO dated July 20, 2022. The letter, translated from French, states that after ...