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Arizona Sonoran News

Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

Wine industry bubbling up fast in Arizona

Wine industry bubbling up fast in Arizona

Tirion Morris September 27, 2017

Toast this: Arizona's wine industry grew 1,940 percent in 14 years. New wineries are bursting onto the map with vineyards and tasting rooms popping up statewide, concentrated in the southeast growing...

Wineries lobby to loosen regulations as business booms

Wineries lobby to loosen regulations as business booms

Ethan McSweeney February 11, 2016

SONOITA — Todd and Kelly Bostock are busy at work among empty boxes and wood barrels of wine. The two owners of Dos Cabezas WineWorks are bottling caseloads of wine in a small warehouse off Highway...

A row of Graciano grapes at the Callaghan Vineyard courtesy of winery owner, Kent Callaghan

Southern Arizona wineries flourish despite the climate

Kianna Gardner March 25, 2015

Southern Arizona’s climate seems like an unlikely choice for a winery. But in the Sonoita area, soil has tested nearly equal in quality to the soil in Burgundy, France — wine capital of the world....

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