Silver Strike Winery, Tombstone AZ - Live Love Drink Travel

Silver Strike Winery is located in the historic district of Tombstone Arizona. A short walk from parking and some of the great downtown eats. Silver Strike is family owned and the wines are produced onsite from the locally grown grapes.

As expected, anything in the historic district of Tombstone is going to have a nostalgic experience. Silver Strike Winery proved to be just that. It had that old west feel and look to it. The day we stepped in it was very warm and the doors were open to get a little breeze flowing. Hank the owner introduced himself, chatted a minute about the wines and we sat down to begin our wine tasting.

Hank let us know the background of the winery, which you can find the full story on their website. To summarize, they loved wine and by happenstance ended up speaking to an owner of a winery in California about organic and biodynamic wines.

They loved the idea and concept and then spent the next 12 years learning and researching places in Florida, Texas and finally Arizona. They ended up landing in Arizona to begin a vineyard. However after conversations with other local vineyard owners, thet decided it was better to open a winery. So here they are making wine and loving it.

Silver Strike Winery has a large wine list ranging from Dry Whites, Rosé, Reds and Dessert Wines. At the time of this writing they offered seventeen different wines. Which as many know, that is a lot of wines for one place. The tasting included 5 from this list. I, of course, went for the red wines. I started at the lower end of the list because I do like them on the bolder side.

Silver Strike also has unique names for their wines. For example, I started with the Deep Core Red, a Cabernet Sauvignon aged in stainless steel and is pretty bold for a cab. A little rich for my taste and I like a Cab, but again, everyone has different taste buds.

Then I moved to the Bore Doe, a play on Bordeaux wines and it is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and C’est Merveilleux. This was an interesting blend, so much so that I am not even sure how to explain the taste.

Lefty’s Legend is a Syrah with more of a fruit flavor and less pepper then I would prefer in a Syrah. Four Mules was a blend of four reds, not sure what they were. The wines were starting to lead to the more port style so this was on the sweeter side for a bold red.

Big John was a Mourvèdre, Hank again mentioned spicy and I just didn’t get that. Of course at this point, I had learned that most of the wines made in the southern area are a little deeper in texture for me. The Mourvèdre was good, but not what I was expecting.

I think you should take a drive to this very historic town, go to Silver Strike Winery and make up your own mind. None of the wines are bad, but more just not to my liking.

That completes our first week of Sippin' September! Be sure to check out tomorrow's feature, Zarpara Vineyard. You can read yesterday's article on Keeling Schaefer Vineyards, or see all of our Sippin’ September articles here.

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