San Diego Reader

• Winery | Escondido

Belle Marie Winery & Chateau Dragoo

• 26312 Mesa Rock Road, Escondido, CA 92026 | Directions
• 760-796-7557 | Website

When it comes to variety, Baskin-Robbins has nothing on Dragoo-Magoni. Thirty-one flavors is impressive, but when Mick Dragoo, proprietor of Escondido's Belle Marie and Chateau Dragoo, met with Camillo Magoni in Tijuana a few weeks back, he heard numbers that were more impressive still. Magoni — who also makes wine at L.A. Cetto — supplies Dragoo with his grapes, grown in Baja and sent north in refrigerated trucks. And as of that meeting in Tijuana, those grapes may come from any one of 51 varietals. "It's really fun for us to be able to play with them," says Dragoo ... +more