lightning ridge cellars
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The wines are rich in flavor and variety. The owners are very pleasant. The wines grown on the estate are Italian varietals (the Sangiovese, Nebbiolo, and Malvasia are my favorites). This is a small winery and what is available varies greatly from visit to visit. Check out the bocci ball courts.Ask the owners to show you the "dining room". Apparently the room can be rented for special events.Reminder: All Sonoita area have significantly hiked their prices for tastings (and bottles). Reduce the impact by bring the first glass you purchase in the region to the remaining wineries, who will offer a discount on tastings.
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Of all of the wineries we visited, this one has the absolute best views. Just look out the tasting room windows the mountains and sky and clouds-so peaceful and beautiful! Very nice tasting room, decent wines, but none that caught my attention and that wanted to come home with me. Our server was decent, but not overly helpful nor talkative. We did find some other visitors to chat with that took up our time. No seating anywhere in the tasting room, standing only. Didn't spend any time outdoors. Nothing caught my attention and screamed that I had to have it, so we did not buy wine, but we will gladly come back to visit, check out what's new and that amazing view!
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We stopped in this past weekend to this extra-special winery in the Elgin-area. As mentioned, a bit out of the way, but the most intense, fabulous wines. We never visit here without buying several bottles of their finest. The estate offerings change as the winery is comparatively small. This autumn they have an estate bottled Cabernet which is still a bit young, but I will hang on to it for six months, because if it is complex, intense right now, just think?? The dessert wine this year is different from other years as well, try it with a piece of their home-made fudge...a little piece of heaven. The owners are so friendly and so proud of their efforts and their " horse/dog" is the greatest! The setting is beautiful, serene, bucolic. Bring your glass for a discounted wine tasting and if you enjoy your Arizona wines, buy a wine travel card (available at most wineries) for the year and receive a further discount (10-15%) on wine and even some shopping/eating establishments. A class act, through and through.
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Ann and Ron are the real deal. The grapes are grown here, the wines are made here and are truly represents the "Terroir" of the only designated AVA in the state!
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On a one-afternoon wine tasting tour of the Sonoita/Elgin area, we visited Dos Cabezas Wineworks, Lightning Ridge Cellars, Sonoita Vineyards, and Callaghan Vineyards. While I have visited many wineries and have a fairly good base of comparison, I haven’t visited any others in the Sonoita area and thus can’t compare these to other Sonoita area wineries.Lightning Ridge has the most beautiful setting of the four wineries we visited. The tasting room is an attractive and fairly new building in the middle of fields of vineyard, with panoramic views of the surrounding mountains. It's worth a visit just to soak up some of the ambiance. You can also sit outside or even play bocce ball on their sand courts out front, although both the tables and the bocce ball courts are in the sun.While I wouldn't say the wines were a disappointment, they didn't quite live up to expectations set by the surroundings. The Lightning Ridge wines were OK -- I'd say about average of the wineries I've visited in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas -- but they were definitely not the best we tasted in the Sonoita area (Callaghan was the best, followed by Dos Cabezas).
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We always leave with a good red and dessert wine. A nice small family run operation that always provide time to interact. Great wine!
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Staff was very friendly and made the tasting room a fun experience. Wine was very good. You should try it.
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Participated in the grape stomp at the end of August. The path was designed to run around and through their vineyard - what a pleasant surprise. Friendly staff and volunteers. Very pretty area. The run ended with samples in their tasting room - what a pleasant surprise.
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Beautiful scenery, great wines to taste, super hospitality! One of my favorite stops in wine country.
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Lightening Ridge was the first stop on our Sonoita adventure this past weekend, and I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of their wines. In fact, I had to ask incredulously "these grapes were grown here?" Their Montepulciano is outstanding, and we really enjoyed the 100% Cab, too. We'll definitely be back once we run out!