Local resident Steve Dryden (U.S. tel. 619/300-4976, www.mexicowinetours.com) offers wine- tasting tours by private van or motor coach. Daylong bus tours depart from San Diego and include tastings at three wineries and lunch at Mustafa’s Moroccan Restaurant.

Steve is a former Napa Valley winery manager with extensive knowledge of the Mexican wine industry, as well as the native Kumiai people, Russian (Molokan) history, and the culture and history of Baja California.

To follow the action in Baja’s wine country, read his Baja Times column online (www.bajatimes.com).