It all started in a West Village pizza joint one wintry night in 2016 before a comedy show. Serendipitously, Gonzalo and I happened to sit next to one another at that dinner. Amongst friends and over successive slices of pizza and glasses of wine, we realized that we had quite a lot in common: a general hedonistic bent; a love for terroir-driven, artisanal Old World wines; and Mexican husbands, both with impending professional plans to relocate from New York to Mexico City. From there, after a couple of dates, dinners and bottles of grower champagne, it became abundantly clear to both of us that our eerily similar plans and palates had conspired with the cosmos to ensure that we work together to bring the kind of wines that we loved best - soulful wines with a sense of place, grown by families honoring land and tradition - to Mexico City. Vinos Enteros was born.

Our philosophy as importers is to work with producers who are first and foremost artisanal, meaning that they make wine in a way that emphasizes the uniqueness of their respective grapes, vineyard sites and wine production zones. They typically follow organic or biodynamic practices in the vineyard (although they may not procure the official organic certification that remains a cumbersome and expensive proposition for a small family operation), harvest the grapes by hand from low-yield vines, handle them minimally and often bottle the wines unfiltered and unfined. 

Some of our producers use indigenous yeasts, some do not. Some of our producers use zero temperature control during fermentation or an amphora during vinification, some do not. We know all of our producers very well - there is not a single one whom we've not visited and broken bread with. In most instances, we've stayed at their properties and met their families. This is very important to us as we believe that wine is a cultural product, best enjoyed when one knows the stories of the people who make it and the land from which it comes.

While we are big fans of many aspects of the natural wine movement, and consider all of our wines to, in fact, be "natural" wines in the sense that they are authentic, made by hand and minimally manipulated; our guiding principles encompass a reverance for the land, a commitment to autochonous varietals and the production of seriously delicious and special wines that reflect the traditions and history of their wine growing region. What makes a wine seriously delicious and special? We say that it must be balanced, refreshing and pleasing. We do not enjoy excessively high alcohol, overextracted fruit flavors or strong new oak flavors, and so you will not find wines exhibiting these characteristics in our portfolio.