The state in the south-west of the USA with the capital Santa Fe covers 314,917 km². It borders Colorado to the north, Oklahoma and Texas to the east, the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora to the south and Arizona to the west. New Mexico was ceded to the USA by Mexico in 1848 and established as an organised US territory in 1850 and was not admitted to the Union as the 47th state until 1912.

New Mexico is considered the oldest wine-growing region in the USA. As early as 1629, the Capuchin monk Fray Antonio de Arteaga and a Franciscan priest planted the Mission(Listán Prieto) variety brought from Spain at a Piro pueblo south of Socorro (New Mexico), primarily for the production of mass wine. The impetus for viticulture in the region was largely due to the Franciscan Fray García de San Francisco y Zúñiga (1575-1614), Bishop of Guadalajara, under whose influence and ecclesiastical sponsorship the missionaries worked.
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