Louise Hurren takes the pulse of the Mexican wine world after Claudia Sheinbaum’s history-making election.
The mood in Mexico was electric.
My flight touched down in Léon, in central Mexico’s Guanajuato state, just three days after the country had elected Claudia Sheinbaum to be their first-ever female president. I was heading to Léon to judge at the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles wine competition and then travel around the country on my own time, taking the pulse of the wine industry.
Heading into the city from the airport, the taxi driver’s radio was tuned to a noisy debate about the result...