Awards

• Commended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Regional Book) 2025
• Commended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Travel) 2025

Overview

Winner of the New York City Big Book Award - Best Travel Book Gold Medal Winner, Best Travel Book - 2025 CIPA EVVY Annual Awards Gold Medal Winner, Best Photography Book - 2025 CIPA EVVY Annual Awards Best Non-Fiction Book - Herb Tabak Choice Award 2025 Gold Medal Winner, Travel Category - IBPA Book Awards Best Travel Book Winner - Foreword Reviews Magazine Best Travel Book and Best Gift Book - Independent Press Award Best Art/Photography Book of the Year, Bronze Medal - International Book Award Contest Exploring México's Quality Wines and Phenomenal Cuisine Exploring Wine Regions - México is the fourth book in the award-winning series, now exploring the México Wine Regions. Does México make wine? Yes. Any good? Very good. While México is famous for producing Tequila, this book opens our eyes to high-quality Méxican wines. And the phenomenal cuisine and extraordinary tourism. This book takes you on a journey to discover these amazing wines; combining wine education, an insider travel guide and spectacular photography. Higgins again dazzles his audience with another informative and beautiful book. Tourism in México is outstanding, we all know it. And the Méxican wine regions are no exception. Wine regions are always very beautiful places. Here, the mountains and valleys are ever so enchanting. The wineries are engaging, have lots of tourism activities available, and are especially inviting and friendly with their warm Méxican hospitality. Both connoisseurs and novices turn to this book series for insider information and inspiration. It is a must-have book for expanding your knowledge of México and its wines. With 340 full-color pages and over 600 photographic images, this fourth edition explores México's regions of Valle de Guadalupe (including Ensenada), Guanajuato (including San Miguel de Allende) and Querétaro (with its rich history). With breathtaking photography and personal commentary, readers are mesmerized by the world of wine, food and travel. Extensive resources are provided for wine lovers who want to know where to go, what to look for, and how to discover their favorite wines.

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Reviews

""Whether Higgins is giving a brief history lesson on the Mexican regions or a quasi-science lesson on terroir, his detail is impressive. But for those who just want to get to the point, he also offers sidebars with only the need-to-know basics of lodgings, restaurants and wineries: address, hours, language spoken, website, dollar signs to note expense, and, for wineries, the types of wines."" -- BlueInk Review ""With this stellar fourth entry in the Exploring Wine Regions series, author and photojournalist Higgins performs a welcome service, introducing the English-speaking wine world to Mexican viticulture, terroirs, and above all wines. Higgins writes in an engagingly direct, unfussy style, unclogged with the hyperbole and specialized vocabulary of much wine writing."" -- Publishers Weekly ""Photojournalist and wine enthusiast Michael C. Higgins's Exploring Wine Regions: México is a vibrant guide to the nation's distinctive vineyards, wineries, wine-centered restaurants, and tourist destinations. The book includes an extensive range of information. Historical notes about how vineyards and olive groves were first cultivated five hundred years ago, when Mexico was called New Spain, augment this work, as does extensive oenophile terminology. And there's information on how Valle de Guadalupe's latitudinal position and ""diurnal shift"" create conditions for distinctive wine production, and how colder evening temperatures influenced by the Pacific Ocean alternate with the everyday heat of the valleys."" -- Foreword Reviews ""Abundant color photographs, charts, maps, and individual narratives on 48 wineries and area restaurants contribute to making this a must have reference when journeying to Guadalupe, Guanajuato, and Querétaro"" -- IndieReader ""Exploring Wine Regions - Mexico is a fascinating resource that will satisfy the cravings of wine connoisseurs, food lovers, history enthusiasts, and travel aficionados. Readers will be mesmerized by the spectacular images of vineyards, wineries, landscapes, and Mexico's rich traditions. It is an incredibly generous book, forged from personal experience and a deep passion for all things rich in beauty, culture, and life."" -- Jefto Pierre, Reviewer, Reader's Favorite ""Michael has carefully crafted a guide using his background and own experiences to help you understand the history behind the wine that many have come to love and enjoy. I am a California Bay Area native and have always been familiar with the Napa and Sonoma Valley wineries but during my various stays within the California Central Coast area, I never thought of the wineries within it. Michael has influenced my curiosity."" -- Vernita Naylor, Reviewer, Reader's Favorite

Author Information

Michael C. Higgins, PhD Author, Photojournalist & Publisher For more than twenty years, author, photographer and wine expert Michael C. Higgins has been the publisher of Flying Adventures, a lifestyle travel magazine for food and wine lovers who own and travel on private airplanes. As a private pilot, travel enthusiast, and food and wine lover himself, Higgins continues to live the story he's been sharing for decades. Between the magazine and this book series, Higgins has participated in some of the most extraordinary experiences. He has virtually done it all: from pruning vines, picking grapes, working alongside winemakers, to participating in blind tastings, food and wine pairings, judging Cru Bourgeois wines, and sharing many meals with world-renowned winemakers, over countless hours, discussing everything wine. His time in wine regions adds up to thousands of days and counting. And as an accomplished photographer, he has captured even more spectacular images of the wine world. Higgins has participated in many unique wine experiences, indulged in the most exclusive culinary affairs, been pampered in highly luxurious destinations and jumped into the wildest of adventures. His goal is to inspire his readers to join him in exploring the wine regions of the world and experiencing the unimaginable. Higgins has a BA in Commercial Art, an MBA and a PhD in Business Administration. He is a California native and lives in Pasadena, California.

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