New Mexico

The state in the North American Southwest with the capital Santa Fe was ceded from Mexico to the in 1848 and became a US state only in 1912. New Mexico is the oldest wine-growing region in the United States. At the beginning of the 17th century, the Capuchin monk Fray Antonio de Arteaga and the Franciscan priest Fray García de San Francisco y Zúñiga founded a mission here near Senecú, near the present-day city of San Antonio, and another near Pilabó (Socorro) south of Albuquerque. In 1629 they planted the historical mission), brought from Spain, for the indispensable . This was probably the first European variety of to be successfully cultivated in North America, where there was no (earlier attempts further north failed because of this insect). In the Rio Grande Valley in southern New Mexico and in neighbouring , vineyards were planted by Franciscan monks.

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