Wine Tasting in Cottonwood, AZ

We spent our afternoon walking around Old Town Cottonwood where our hotel was located.  Such a cute town, but a lot of the shops aren’t open on weekdays right now because of the labor shortage, but according to everyone in town, everything is fully open on weekends and quite busy!

After enjoying the town, we headed to our first wine tasting at Pillsbury Wine Company.  This was a pretty casual tasting room, although still fun.

This was our favorite Pillsbury wine…Guns and Kisses, and at $90 a bottle, I guess it should be our favorite. Not anything we would ever be interested in buying!

Tasting room 2 was called Burning Tree Cellars.  Of course, a very different feel from Pillsbury.  It was a quieter, more laid back atmosphere with lots of conversation and learning opportunities.

Our favorite wine here was called El Delgado, which means skinny man.

And our final wine tasting was at Winery 101.  Again, very casual, but a laidback feel.

We love hearing about all of the vineyards and their winemaking processes.  Our fun fact of the day is that most of the wine grapes in AZ are grown near the little town of Wilcox in south east Arizona.  All of the establishments we visited today were just tasting rooms, no vineyards or actual wineries.  We thought that was interesting.  It was also fun to hear about the lives of the people that live and work in this small town.