Sedona wineries and Verde Valley vineyards: our insider's guide
We've been driving the Verde Valley Wine Trail since 2004 — since before it was an AVA, and before most of these tasting rooms opened. Here's every vineyard, tasting room and brewery we visit, what each one does best, and the days you can't get in. Then let us do the driving.
The estate vineyards
Where northern Arizona's modern wine story began: vines along Oak Creek and the Verde River, twenty to thirty minutes from Sedona.
Alcantara Vineyard
Camp Verde · daily 11 a.m.–2 p.m. (3 p.m. April–October)The largest continuous estate vineyard in the region — about 80 acres and 35 wines — at the confluence of Oak Creek and the Verde River. A wedding chapel, a private beach, cliff dwellings on the ridge, and their Confluence red blend. Ask about a barrel-room look when the winemaker is around.
DA Ranch (Dancing Apache Ranch)
Page Springs · closed Monday & TuesdayA former working cattle ranch, now six acres of vines on 350 with springs, a pond, goats and donkeys — the Petznick family's retreat. Wines are sold only to Arizona residents and the wine club, which makes a tasting here the only way most visitors ever try them. Our favorite red is the Capra. Sister winery: Chateau Tumbleweed.
Page Springs Cellars
Page SpringsCreekside tastings under the sycamores from one of the valley's founding producers.
Javelina Leap Vineyard
Page SpringsAward-winning estate Zinfandel and a patio that looks straight at the red rocks.
Oak Creek Vineyards
Page SpringsApproachable reds and whites, and the valley's go-to for sweet and dessert wines. The first stop on our SIP Sedona 3-Hour Tasting Adventure.
Cove Mesa Vineyard
Cornville · opened November 2022A modern tasting room where the owners are often pouring, with a proper food menu — the second stop on the 3-Hour Tasting Adventure.
Salt Mine Wine
Camp Verde · Friday–SundayEstablished 2012, five acres and 500–600 cases a year, known for a steel-aged Malvasia Blanca. A boutique stop on our Taste of Camp Verde tour.
Clear Creek Vineyards (Rio Claro)
Camp Verde · Friday–SundayEstablished 2015, 100% estate fruit, wines aged three to seven years before release and shipped to about 34 states.
Nine tasting rooms on five walkable blocks
Quaint, historic and forty minutes from Sedona. Our Taste of Old Town, Evening in Old Town and Rock Star tours live here.
Merkin Vineyards & Hilltop Trattoria
Old Town CottonwoodMaynard James Keenan's flagship: estate wines with handmade pasta and local vegetables. Dinner on An Evening in Old Town; lunch on the Rock Star Wine Tour.
Four Eight Wineworks
Old Town Cottonwood & JeromeAlso Keenan's — a cooperative that gives young Arizona winemakers a tasting room.
Rubrix Wines
Old Town CottonwoodFormerly Burning Tree Cellars; a stop on the 5-Hour Wine, Beer & Beyond Experience.
Arizona Stronghold
Old Town CottonwoodThe state's largest winemaker — flights or by-the-glass in a lively room. The social finish to the 4-Hour SIP & Savor Tour.
DA Vines & Vineyard
Old Town CottonwoodDA Ranch's in-town tasting room, and home to some of our favorite wines in Arizona.
Eureka Room
Old Town CottonwoodSmall-batch wines from boutique winemakers across the state.
Cellar 433
Old Town CottonwoodWines from John McLaughlin, one of Arizona's largest grape growers.
Tantrum Wines
Old Town CottonwoodOne of the few female-owned wineries in Arizona, with a whimsical room to match.
Belfry Brewery
Old Town CottonwoodFor the beer drinker in the group — and there's always one.
A ghost town and a college that grows its own
Caduceus Cellars
JeromeKeenan's Jerome tasting room, inside the Puscifer store, on the Flavors of Historic Jerome and Rock Star tours.
Cabal Cellars
JeromeConspiracy-theory labels and serious wine.
Passion Cellars · Original Jerome Winery · VinoZona · Coronado Vineyard
JeromeThe rest of the hill: seven rooms in a copper-mining town of 450 residents, with views to the San Francisco Peaks. Coronado is the newest. Lunch, if you add it, is The Haunted Hamburger.
Southwest Wine Center
Clarkdale · Thursday–Sunday, reservationsYavapai College's two-year winemaking program, pouring wines grown and made on campus. The heart of our Clarkdale Wine & Vineyard Education Experience.
Bodega Pierce
Clarkdale · reservationsMichael Pierce, dean of the college wine program, making a Malvasia Blanca we love.
Chateau Tumbleweed
ClarkdaleDA Ranch's sister winery, mostly Willcox fruit, with the most informative (and funniest) labels in the valley.
The Flagstaff breweries we visit
Flagstaff's eight breweries are the stops on the city's official Brewery Trail, and the reason our micro-brewery tours don't stop at the valley line. It's a mountain town with a college, a railroad and a serious beer scene — cooler by fifteen degrees, which is exactly what you want in July. We run a dedicated historic downtown Flagstaff brewery tour, and the Arizona Hopful tour strings every brewery from Camp Verde to Flagstaff into one day.
Mother Road Brewing Company
Southside & downtown FlagstaffFlagstaff's best-known brewery, named for Route 66 and famous for Tower Station IPA. Two spots: the original Butler Avenue brewery and a downtown taproom.
Historic Brewing Company — Barrel + Bottle House
Downtown FlagstaffHistoric's downtown tasting room, with a long list that includes their cult Piehole Porter, a cherry-vanilla porter people drive up for.
Dark Sky Brewing Company
Downtown FlagstaffSmall-batch and always changing — the board can turn over weekly. Named for Flagstaff's status as the world's first International Dark Sky City.
Beaver Street Brewery
Southside FlagstaffThe elder statesman, open since 1994, with wood-fired pizza and a family-friendly brewpub feel. A reliable first or last stop.
Lumberyard Brewing Company
Southside FlagstaffBeaver Street's sister brewery inside a restored 1900s lumber mill building — bigger room, bigger patio, a full menu, and a big Flagstaff IPA.
Flagstaff Brewing Company
Historic downtown, on Route 66A downtown fixture since 1994 with a lively patio and a deep whiskey list to go with the house beers.
Wanderlust Brewing Company
East FlagstaffThe beer nerd's favorite: Belgian-inspired and barrel-aged ales in a no-frills industrial taproom. Try the 928 Local farmhouse ale.
Grand Canyon Brewing + Distillery
Flagstaff taproom (brewed in Williams)Northern Arizona's largest brewery, with a Flagstaff taproom pouring the full line plus their own spirits. Sunset Amber is the crowd-pleaser.
Tasting rooms you can walk to
No vineyards in town, but five rooms pouring Arizona wine — the basis of our Sedona Arizona Wine Tasting Experience and the Sedona Quickie.
The Art of Wine
Hyatt Piñon Pointe Shops, 101 N Hwy 89AOur day-trip meeting point and the Sedona Quickie's home — a curated Arizona list in uptown.
Vino Di Sedona
West SedonaWine bar, bottle shop and live music; the last stop on the Wine, Beer & Beyond loop.
Winery 1912 · VinoZona · Decanter
SedonaThree more rooms for a walkable afternoon of Arizona wine without leaving the red rocks.
Sedona wineries, answered
Are there wineries in Sedona itself?
Sedona has tasting rooms rather than vineyards — The Art of Wine, Vino Di Sedona, Winery 1912, VinoZona and Decanter pour Arizona wines in town. The vineyards are twenty to forty minutes away in the Verde Valley: Page Springs, Cornville, Camp Verde, Cottonwood, Clarkdale and Jerome. That drive is exactly why a guided wine tour makes sense here.
How many wineries are near Sedona?
The Verde Valley AVA has eight vineyard locations, around twenty tasting rooms and seven micro-breweries, and the count keeps growing — three distilleries are arriving in Old Town Cottonwood. We visit all of them.
Which Sedona winery is best?
Honestly, it depends on what you like. For scenery, Alcantara on the Verde River. For a story, DA Ranch's cattle-ranch-turned-vineyard. For food, Merkin Vineyards' handmade pasta. For a Zinfandel, Javelina Leap's estate. For sweet wines, Oak Creek Vineyards. Tell your guide your palate and we'll build the route — that's what the Terroir of the Verde Valley Wine Trail tour is for.
Can I visit Sedona wineries without a tour?
You can, but someone has to drive the switchbacks, and DA Ranch, Bodega Pierce and the Southwest Wine Center are closed some days or need reservations. Our guides handle the days, the reservations and the driving, and the tasting fees are included on Wine Tours of Sedona. Call (928) 504-2445.
What is the Verde Valley Wine Trail?
A loose circuit of vineyards and tasting rooms along Oak Creek and the Verde River, from Camp Verde through Cornville, Page Springs, Cottonwood and Clarkdale up to Jerome. Volcanic soils, high-desert elevation and cool nights give the wines their character. The Verde Valley became an American Viticultural Area in December 2021.
Let us drive you to all of them.
Every stop on this page is on a Wine Tours of Sedona, SIP Sedona or Sedona Wine Adventures route. Tell us what you like to drink and we'll pick the day.