OUR MONKEYS, OUR CIRCUS.
Procrastinate on a Mother’s Day gift? Let us help you out, your mom wants wine. We’re bringing together all of our friends, family, and favorite customers to celebrate our 5 year anniversary. The theme this year is Our Monkeys, Our Circus, so that means live circus performers, awesome bands, and our favorite restaurants and brewery. Enjoy our patio, feed some animals, and drink some alcohol, fun and debauchery for all! We have so many awesome wine, beer and food pairings this year, featuring local restaurants like Mama’s Hawaiian BBQ, The Café Sonoita, Whoops Bakery, Brushfire BBQ, Queen Ceviche, J’s Chicken & Waffles, just to name a few. Beer Lovers… we will have Dillinger Brewing Co.’s pride and joy, their Serrano Seduction and their Strong Arm Ale. And as always, we’ll be featuring our awesome wines… and we’ll be celebrating our newest release, Ro-Sham-Bo, a fruit-forward, interesting Refosco. Live music with the high-energy, Santa Pachita, as well as the local hometown favorite, The Grasslands Band. It’s a family affair… we’ll have The Sober Shack open with homemade sodas and cotton candy, and the kids can check out all of our weird farm animals, feed some baby goats, and we’ll even have a moon bounce! This event is a lot of fun for retirees looking to taste some great wine, couples who want to get out and have fun, families that love wine but can’t find a babysitter, and twenty-somethings and Wildcats looking to hear some good music and drink great beer and wine, without having to deal with rude people, packed bars, and other unpleasantness. Get out to Sonoita this weekend and we promise you won’t regret it!
What: Arizona Hops and Vines 5th Annual Bacchanal Festival
When: May 13th, 2017
Where: Arizona Hops and Vines, 3450 Highway 82, Elgin, Arizona 85637
Admission: $20 entry, includes six drink/food pairing tickets and a souvenir wine glass.
Check out the new wine we’ll be releasing! Ro-Sham-Bo, a 2015 Refosco with New Mexico fruit. This ruby red lucious wine with hints of dried fig, sour cherry, and cocoa beans is firm and well-structured, with pleasant tannins. Our Ro-Sham-Bo would pair well with fried pickles, sun-dried Bruschetta, peppered flank steak, or Talenti Black Cherry Gelato you discretely picked up late night from Walgreens. Trying to make any decisions… rock, paper, scissors and this wine will turn every bad decisions into a good one.
The story of Amanda- in 2011 we planted these baby vines, just tiny cuttings that we had gathered from surrounding vineyards. Over the next three years, we pruned, trained, and patiently waited for our first fruit. We harvested on a chilly October morning with the help of our child labor force and wine name-sake. The grapes were foot crushed and then aged in our first Hungarian, new oak barrel (a $1500 barrel- which is a lot for us!). This wine was recently bottled and would benefit from some bottle-aging, and is definitely one to collect and save for a special occasion. The label was done by local artist, Rachel Ward, and is the first of a 6-part series of the various stages of the growth of a vine. This wine is well balanced with notes of vanilla, smoked meat, and hints of strawberry. A complex wine, with a long finish that pairs nicely with prime rib, brisket, and clam chowder. ($50 per bottle $45 case price).
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