Food and Drink
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Golden Rule Vineyards, Willcox AZ
Golden Rule Vineyards grows 10 varieties of wine grapes in the Willcox Arizona area. They offer tastings at both the vineyard in Cochise Arizona, and at the downtown Willcox tasting room. On this occasion we decided to try the tasting room in downtown Willcox. Golden Rule and Copper Horse share the downtown tasting room so
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Copper Horse Vineyard, Willcox AZ
Copper Horse Vineyard in Cochise County now has a tasting room located in the Willcox Mercantile in downtown Willcox Arizona.
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Birds and Barrels Vineyards, Willcox AZ
Hello again, and welcome to Sippin’ September 2020! During the event we will be featuring thirty wineries in thirty days, continuing our goal of eventually featuring every Arizona winery. We are going to kick things off this year with Birds and Barrels Vineyards in Willcox AZ. It might surprise you, however we had never been
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Sippin’ September 2020… And So It Begins
Sippin’ September 2020 is here! If you were with us last year you will remember that we visited 30 wineries/vineyards/tasting rooms in 30 days. It was a fun and drunk time of exploring new areas, tasting new wines and meeting new folks. We had so much fun, we decided to bring it back this year.
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Going Wine Tasting in Arizona This Summer
What is it like going wine tasting in Arizona this summer? Times are weird right now. It’s hard to balance staying safe, staying within your comfort level and not wanting to stay home all the time so you don’t go insane. We took a weekend trip up to Cottonwood Arizona to get away and restock
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Travel in 2020
What is it like to travel in 2020, after some of the restrictions have been lifted? We recently flew to St. Thomas for a short trip to decompress from the first half of 2020. On this trip we took note as to how things within the travel world have changed. I can tell you it
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Sonoita Wine Tasting at Home
Greetings everyone! If you follow us you know we were forced to cancel our Jamaica trip due to the pandemic . Right after that we had a weekend trip planned to head to Sonoita to do some tasting and pick up some wine. Of course the increasing pandemic caused us to cancel that too. Therefore,
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Vacation Destination – Home Sweet Home
Our vacation destination for March was Jamaica for five nights. Unfortunately, with the Coronavirus Epidemic we had to cancel. We had considered rescheduling to a date further out, but with so many unknowns in the travel industry we decided it would be best for us to cancel the trip altogether. Do not fear, we will
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Attending the 2020 Arizona Stronghold Barrel Bash
The first weekend in February was the annual Arizona Stronghold Barrel Bash. This was our fourth year attending this event, and as always it was a lot of fun. It is a great chance to meet and mingle with other wine lovers. As with the last few years, we brought along Mama Ruby.
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Top 6 Reasons to Drink Local Wine
Hello again! If you have read our blog before you know we love wine. We have a fantastic wine industry here in Arizona, and today I’d like to talk about why you should support your local boutique wineries. Here are our top 6 reasons to drink local wine.