A Dolores Hidalgo winery has landed a strong showing in one of the wine world’s better-known guides, adding fresh attention to Guanajuato’s vineyard corridor near San Miguel de Allende. The scores arrive as the state prepares for another harvest season and continues to court wine travelers with tastings, vineyard events, and international industry attention. The top bottle was a red blend with a familiar Mexican profile, but the broader list says more about the region’s range than a single label.
These Guanajuato Wines Just Scored Big in Guía Peñín
Tres Raíces has put a new marker on Guanajuato’s wine map.
The winery sits on the road between San Miguel de Allende and Dolores Hidalgo. It placed 12 labels above 90 points in the 2026 edition of Guía Peñín’s Mexico guide. The top score went to its Tres Raíces Gran Reserva 2020, a Cabernet Sauvignon and Malbec blend that reached 93 points in the guide’s tasting sheets.
The 93 score falls within the guide’s 90 to 94-point band, which Guía Peñín classifies as vino excelente. The guide says wines in that range are balanced. They should match their type and show defined traits from winemaking, aging, or grape variety.
Gran Reserva leads the winery’s showing
Guía Peñín lists the Gran Reserva as 60 percent Cabernet Sauvignon and 40 percent Malbec. Its tasting note points to dark cherry color, balsamic notes, black fruit, a rounded palate, spice, smoke in the aftertaste, length, and mature tannins.
The rest of the group was mostly red. It included Cabernet Sauvignon 2023, Caladoc 2022, Nebbiolo Sangiovese 2023, Cabernet Franc Merlot 2023, Pinot Noir 2023 and Tempranillo 2023. Malbec 2022, Merlot 2022, two Sauvignon Blanc 2025 bottlings, and Tré Cabernet Sauvignon Tempranillo 2023 also cleared 90.
Several white, rosé, and sparkling wines stayed just below that line. Chardonnay 2025, Rosé 2025, and Espumoso 2023 each scored 89. Ensamble 2023 received 88.
Carlos González, director of Guía Peñín, framed the 2026 Mexico guide as part of a wider shift. Mexico has “great wines to discover,” he wrote, and “great potential ahead.” The guide evaluated close to 400 wines from 57 wineries in eight producing states. Those were Aguascalientes, Baja California, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Querétaro and San Luis Potosí.
A winery on Guanajuato’s wine corridor
Tres Raíces sits in Ejido Tequisquiapan, on the San Miguel de Allende-Dolores Hidalgo route. The winery promotes guided walks, tastings, pairings and workshops as part of its enotourism program. It also operates restaurants and a boutique hotel tied to the vineyard.
That corridor is becoming a familiar part of San Miguel’s travel economy. Earlier this spring, Guanajuato’s Wine Week added two San Miguel dates. The city is also set to host the first CMB Gala, a new international awards format tied to the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles.
State officials have been leaning hard into that story. The 2026 Vendimias calendar calls for 15 harvest celebrations from August to October. The events are scheduled in Dolores Hidalgo, San Miguel de Allende, San Felipe, and Silao. Guanajuato tourism officials projected spending of 17.1 million pesos and 17,100 attendees across those four destinations.
María Guadalupe Robles León, Guanajuato’s secretary of tourism and identity, said in February that wine tourism was opening “new paths of identity and future” for Guanajuato and Mexico. The same announcement listed Guanajuato as the country’s fourth-largest wine producer. It also cited more than 1.6 million bottles a year, over 600 hectares under cultivation, and 21 grape varieties.
The numbers behind one score
The Peñín scores also come with a built-in caution. They are guide scores, not guarantees of taste. The guide says its ratings should be read with flexibility. Still, a dozen labels above 90 give Tres Raíces a broad showing rather than a single standout bottle.
The winery’s top-scoring bottle lands in a familiar Mexican red style. It is Cabernet Sauvignon-led, rounded by Malbec. The guide’s note leans toward black fruit, spice, and mature tannins. That profile is easy to place in Guanajuato right now. Wine promotion there is being tied to food, history, vineyard stays, and the San Miguel-Dolores Hidalgo corridor.
Another point is timing. The 2026 Vendimias schedule starts August 1 in Dolores Hidalgo and runs through October 18. Several dates sit in the same two-city corridor. Tres Raíces’ showing gives that season one more talking point before the harvest crowds arrive.
