Hey all
I am going to Cabo for a week and looking for how to either bring or buy high end wine. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks!
Mike
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Costco was the best selection I found. Everywhere else were overpriced bottom shelf wines
Wine lists at restaurants are ridiculously overpriced.
French wine is almost non existent.
Drink tequila and beer
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Mezcal, but yes.
Our visits to Cabo and Hawaii are wine vacations. If anyone wants good wine at a beach location/resort, go to Europe.
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Check wine on your flight. It’s not hard.
But I echo the suggestion to drink mezcal and the delicious cocktails everywhere.
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If you are in Cabo San Lucas, the new’ish Fresko is pretty nice. Like a Cabo version of Whole Foods. One of the better wine selections I’ve seen down there. If you go looking for it, make sure it’s the one by Home Depot…there are a few Fresko stores, but this is their high end one.
But, I’ll also echo the mezcal comments.
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Yeah, that’s a tall order. You will be underwhelmed overall allowing for something that looks good among a mediocre draw, develop and go with a good Plan B… booze and beer. You can bring, but its what you can throw in checked luggage and trust to get there.
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Located right by the Home Depot.
Found Dujac there priced well about 5 years ago.
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Mezcal, tequila, cerveza. Take any wine you want to drink.
Just check a case shipper box or Wine Check into luggage. Why waste time hunting around for what you maybe can find there? You already own the wines you want to drink.
And travel shock is baloney so don’t worry about that.
Having said that, while not “high end,” there are interesting wines worth a try from Valle de Guadalupe.
I disagree with the notion that because you’re physically in Mexico, you shouldn’t drink wine, as compared, say, to if you vacationed in, say, San Diego or Seattle. You love wine, you want to enjoy it on vacation, go do it.
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Wine prices are off the charts in Cabo . . . almost everywhere allows BYOB with a fee which is still better than paying 3-5x list. Concur on the mezcal comments, but why not both?
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Bring your own but check that you don’t bring more than legally allowed per person in your group. We go every January and bring wine, but one time, we had more than allowed and we had the misfortune of being checked. Their solution…pick the overage out and send you on your way…they picked very well for them 
Another add-on to my experience a year ago to Todos Santos. We VinGarded down 6-8 bottles of wine, free on Alaska from any west coast origin, and flew back with same device full of Mezcal, Tequila, Vanilla, coffee beans (Baja Beans near Todos Santos are really good, not sure if they are sold in CSL), a molcajete and some blown glass bar glasses. We had to redistribute some of the weight to other bags, but no problems with customs either direction, just declare everything, Maybe we just got lucky with agents at San Jose Cabo and Los Angeles (our return entry)
Other ti[p, Ernesto at Punta Lobos Todos Santos, Fun and inexpensive fishing charter. $300 cash and a share of the catch. We caught ~12 Dorado(Mahi-Mahi) and Wahoo in 3 hours. .Ate it all week and still brought home ~30 pounds each, me and my son-in-law.
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This is one for the rolodex. Good find.