The 5th Annual Verde Valley Wine Festival and Symposium will be hosted by Sedona Center of Yavapai College and will include guest speakers who are industry leaders, speaking on topics pertaining to this years theme “the Fruits of our Labor”.

This year the Arizona Grand Wine Tasting & Peoples Choice Wine Competition will feature  wineries from the Verde Valley and Southern Arizona who will share their stories and many of their amazing wines. Enjoy the afternoon tasting wines, touring the beautiful Sedona Center, visiting with other wine enthusiasts, eating food prepared by select Food Truck sponsors and speaking with wine industry experts.

SATURDAY, MAY 28TH, 11:00 A.M. – 6:00 P.M​

Page Springs Cellars and the City of Cottonwood have teamed up again for our 3rd Annual Tilted Earth Festival.  Tilted was founded to foster the growth of culture, community and our economy by bringing together artisans in the fields of craft drink, food, music and the fine arts.

Were you HOT in 2015? We’re starting 1 hour later this year and going deeper into the night! Two Breweries and Wine Mixology Added for 2016!

JOIN US TO CELEBRATE THE SOLSTICE WITH THREE DAYS OF SUMMER FUN IN THE VERDE VALLEY.

JUNE 16th WINE DINNER FROM 6:30 to 9pm at THE BLAZIN’ M RANCH
JUNE 17th TILTED FESTIVAL 5 TIL’ MIDNIGHT at RIVERFRONT PARK
JUNE 18th TILTED FESTIVAL 5 TIL’ MIDNIGHT at RIVERFRONT PARK

HOW TO GET HERE

The Kingman Chapter of the Mohave Community College Foundation is pleased to invite you to Kingman’s annual Wine & Food Festival on:

Saturday, May 14, 2016
Firefighters’ Memorial Park, 2001 Detroit Avenue
Kingman, Arizona
11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Food and wine festivals are the perfect way to get a little taste of everything. Area restaurants, wine purveyors, chefs and local vendors team up to provide an enjoyable day for the entire community.

Bring your friends and wine-loving palate and sip the day away!  Enjoy a delectable array of full-bodied and rich reds, crisp whites, and a great many Arizona specialty wines. Share your love of wine, food and live contemporary music with friends while mingling with other wine lovers.
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Kingman’s annual Wine & Food Festival…  Like a fine wine – it just gets better with age!

Alcantara Vineyards is hosting Zinfest on June 11th, starting at 11 a.m. and ending at 5:00 p.m.

This is one of the vineyards Wine Tours of Sedona visits quite often. 

There are 2 Zinfandels to try at the festival. They will also have all of their other varietals on hand to taste. Come relax and enjoy Northern Arizona and the beauty of Alcantara Vineyards.

Alcantara Vineyards is located at:  3445 South Grapevine Way, Cornville, AZ.

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​It would be appreciated if you let them know you heard about Zinfest on Wine Tours of Sedona's website!

The Verde Valley Wine Festival is Northern Arizona’s premier Culinary and Wine festival of the year, presented by Four Eight Wineworks and the non-profit organization, Made in Clarkdale. The event will be held on Saturday, May 7th at the historic Clarkdale Town Park from 12 PM – 4 PM. 

The event will highlight the community of Clarkdale and the Verde Valley at large, with the goal of offering the finest wineries, breweries and restaurants committed to creating homegrown products and authentic experiences for locals and visitors to enjoy from around the world.
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The festival will be held in the heart of Arizona’s first planned community Clarkdale, Arizona. Check it out on May 7th at the historic Clarkdale Town Park for a great day of wine, beer, food and art.

Often there are things about my job that really bring me a deep sense of gratification in what I do. This week has given me an opportunity to reflect on some of those things. With so many tourists coming to red rock country, and so many tour choices; I feel such gratitude when someone picks my company. And to make it even more gratifying, to choose to use me, for such important times of a couple's life together. 

On Sunday, I had the pleasure of working with a couple from California and there two wedding planners. The scope of my tour was something I had never officially done before, though with some careful questions upon meeting Sonia & Ed; given my expansive knowledge of the Sedona area, I was able to provide them exactly what they were looking for. For they are getting married here on March 12th and were looking for the perfect location for them and up to 175 of their close friends and family with stunning red rock backdrops. So although, I have never been a Sedona Wedding Location Scout, I can now say I can add that to my list of available services. It was a pleasure working with them, as well as Beth and Esther from Beth Helmstetter Events & Weddings out of Los Angeles. Aft harmony with your beloved.er showing them all around epic and inspiring possible wedding locations around Sedona, I realized that I may wish to help more couples coming to Arizona, and wishing for that perfect location in red rock country to hold their wedding. Helping people come together in love makes my heart feel really good.

Yesterday, I had a lovely couple here on their honeymoon. Again, it brings me such pleasure to be able to be part of a couple's beginning moments of their lives together. And although I have had many couple's join our tours for their anniversary celebration, which is equally gratifying, there's something really special when I get to share Arizona during a couple honeymoon.

So, I reflect in gratitude. May I extend my love to every couple who have ever shared a tour experience with my company. I wish you all a lifetime of peace, LOVE, and harmony with your beloved. Thank you all for allowing me to share my love and passion with you, Arizona. 

Saturday was another fun day on the Verde Valley Wine Trail. Had the pleasure of taking six ladies out on a girls weekend getaway excursion that included wine tastings from Caduceus Cellars, Cellar 433, Chateau Tumbleweed, and The Art of Wine. Their tour was completed by an amazing Italian dinner at Cucina Rustica. In fact after dropping them off for dinner, I couldn't resist but to stop in myself for dinner because that food there is just exceptionally good. Sometimes it's just simply worth it to spend your entire tip on dinner, this was most certainly one of these times. And it was so worth it. 

With so many wines out there, the world wide web is a great resource to discover new wines that you may have never heard of, or are even available at your local wine purveyor. Personally speaking, I like using CellarTracker to search for wines as well as for cataloging all the wines I have in my wine cellar using their app Corkz.

Well, another great site to purchase wine and get free upgrades is UndergroundCellar. They have a newsletter that you can opt in to receive that has daily deals on wine from everywhere!

​If you enjoy wine, it is most certainly worth checking out the sites I have listed in this blog post.