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Arizona Hops and Vines presents the Percussion Quartet from the Tucson Symphony Orchestra.
Performance starts at 4pm
Formed in 1998, the TSO’s Percussion Quartet has become an audience favorite throughout Southern Arizona. This lively ensemble uses a mix of marimbas, drums, vibraphones, and other percussion instruments to perform music from around the globe. Repertoire includes an eclectic mix of jazz, pop, classical, and contemporary music, all colorfully performed by percussion.
Saturday, April 21, 2018
11am-5pm
The main event is a sprint race by the best-dressed runners you’ll ever find: Drag Queens! On top of the drag race, we’ll have a DJ, food trucks, wine created by us, beer by Dillinger Brewing, and the annual release of our Drag Queen–a wine co-fermented with our very own hops. It’ll be a wine dressed up like a beer!
Anyone can run! Show up in your best drag with your sexiest running heels and be ready to race!
A portion of our proceeds go to support the Colby Olsen Foundation, an organization dedicated to bringing awareness to the issues surrounding our LGBTQ community. Come drink and support!
Summer Solstice Bonfire- Sat. June 17th
Cornhole Tournament- Sat. July 1st
Bad Decisions Camp Out- Sat. Aug. 12th – Sun. Aug. 13th
Great Crush Festival- Sat. September 9th
Oktoberfest 2017- Sat. October 7th
The Speakeasy- Sat. October 21st
Deck the Halls- Sat. December 2nd
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.
We’re not even kidding right now… The Fluffer is coming back!
Pre-sale starts today! We’re selling these by the half-case (6 bottles), but order a full-case and save up to 12% on your purchase. These will ship out the week of Dec. 7th, but if you’re as excited as we are then you can pick yours up early at our annual Deck the Halls Christmas party on Dec. 5th… that’s right, Merry Christmas.
We’re bringing out our Glüwein! It’s perfect for chilly Christmas days and nights, because it’s served hot. And the “glü” in there means “glow” not “paste,” describing the warm glow that comes from drinking it.
Join us Saturday, December 5th from 11am to 6pm for a glass of hot glüwein, Christmas music, cookie pairings, and a Christmas market with local vendors!
It’s a good old fashioned Bing Crosby-plus-alcohol Christmas. $20 entrance, kids are free!
We’re closing in on our biggest event of the year, our 2015 Bad Decisions Campout & Meteor Shower. Holding to our fine tradition of pairing things that are unhealthily amazing (Cheetos, cupcakes), we are pairing chocolate, bacon, cheese, wine, and beer. The Perseids is one of the best meteor showers to observe, producing up to 60 meteors per hour at their peak. The shower will come from the northeast after about midnight. In the morning, we’ll enjoy muffins and mimosas.
$25 for Bad Decisions (noon-7pm), includes souvenir glass and ten tasting tickets. Anyone under 21 is FREE. Bacon, treats, chocolate, and all other food is not included.
$60 for the whole shebang (this is per person pricing)- souvenir glass, ten tasting tickets, and campsite. (food not included). Roll in around 10AM to set up your campsite, but the Bad Decisions party will officially kick off at noon.
If you’re camping overnight and bringing your kids, then sign them up for Kids Camp for the night- dinner, snacks, crafts, movies and games from 6pm to 10pm, not to mention our own kids’ soda and candy factory, The Sober Shack will be open. Kids Camp is $25 and is open from 6pm to 10pm. Dinner is included with the Kids Camp ticket. If you don’t sign them up for camp, that’s cool too… kids are still free to enjoy the campout!
It will be epic! Don’t miss out!
We primarily grow reds. Mainly a lot of Cabernet Sauvingnon, however we also grow Petit Verdot, Montepulciano, Graciano, Cabernet Franc, Touriga Nationale, Mourvedre, Grenache, and a couple white varietals: Malvasia and Orange Muscat.
Cascade, Willamette, Brewers Gold, Nugget, Centennial AND a native Arizona hop!
Clint Eastwood (the Donkey) still bites.
Kevin Bacon (the Pig) is still a perv.
The Ducks have been busy.
The Sheep have been fleeced.
Vino (the Cat) is still a lazy bum.
This is an exciting time in the winery- it’s where the magic happens. We are blending aware, coming up with some exciting, sexy wines that we can’t wait to bottle and let you try. This week we are filtering and bottling our dry Rosé called Everlasting, as well as a floral white blend named Verena.
“Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted: some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.” – Paulo Coelho
The vineyard is quiet. We are basically finishing up pruning and collecting cuttings which we use to interplant the vineyard with. We will begin planting in the spring.
The tasting room is busy- thanks to you all! We love hearing your stories, and being part of your special times. We have so many new reds on the table, like Zinfidelity, Amanda, & Merci… catch them before they are gone!
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).
100% Arizona Syrah. A jammy, fruit-forward wine with mild tannins, and a smooth, earthy finish. We only made a limited amount of this special wine and decided to call it Merci in honor of all the people who have supported us this year, including YOU. This wine pairs well with grilled meats like venison or lamb chops. It also works well with a decadent chocolate ganache or the partially melted Lindt balls you forgot in your purse. The best pairing however is with someone you are grateful for. Here is to the many nights you will not remember, with people you will never forget. ($35 pe
r bottle $31 case price).
This sultry wine seems simple in the beginning with luscious hints of ripe plums and cherry. However, things quickly get more complicated with a earthy, chocolate and leather finish. Do not be fooled, this wine will leave you lusting for more. It pairs well with spare ribs, lasagna, or chili fries. Perfect for the occasional Netflix night revisiting movies like Fatal Attraction, Unfaithful, or American Beauty. Zinfidelity seems like a Jennifer Aniston, but is really more of an Angelina Jolie. ($25 per bottle $22 case price).
Stay tuned… keeping our dialogue with the liquor department open. Fingers crossed!
Chocolate, wine and over a dozen topless, Tucson Firefighters… Happy Valentine’s Day from the ladies of Hops & Vines! Feel good while doing good because the proceeds from firefighter calendar sales are donated back to the community for family food boxes & Christmas presents, American Cancer Society, The Ronald McDonald House, 100 Club, Boys and Girls Clubs of Tucson, Save-A-Life Foundation, iWomen, Pima Community College Foundation, Eric Hite Foundation, and The Robert Tate Foundation…. just to name a few. Come support their cause and enjoy first responders of all types graciously serving locally made chocolates which are carefully paired with our sexy wines. We’ll have lunch trucks, music, vendors, yummy wines, and chocolates and eye candy for everybody. Come celebrate Valentine’s Day the right way at Chocolate Love.
