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Arizona

Arizona is a wine region in United States, home to 53 wineries, producing red, rose, white wines, known for Willcox, Sonoita.

Arizona at a glance: predominantly red; known for Willcox, Sonoita.
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Arizona's 53 wineries produce predominantly red wine; Cabernet Sauvignon is the most common single-grape bottling; wines carry AVA designation.

About the Arizona region

    Location
    Arizona wine refers to wine made from grapes grown in the U.S.
    Climate
    NOAA NCEI Climate at a Glance encodes a 1991–2020 statewide mean annual temperature of 61.1 °F for Arizona.
    Soils
    In USDA NRCS Soil Data Access results for Arizona survey areas, Aridisols have the largest weighted component acreage, approximately 28,065,726 acres.

Region facts sourced from NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Climate at a Glance statewide time series for Arizona, retrieved 2026-07-11. (U.S. Government work / Public Domain (17 U.S.C. § 105)), USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Soil Data Access query for Arizona (AZ survey-area prefix), retrieved 2026-07-11. (U.S. Government work / Public Domain (17 U.S.C. § 105)), Wikipedia contributors, "Arizona wine", Wikipedia, revision 1357183700, retrieved 2026-07-11. (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International).

Most common single-grape wines

When Arizona wines are made from a single grape (rather than a blend), these are the most common:

Wine profile

Arizona is predominantly a red-wine region (about 67% of its wines).

520 distinct Arizona wines tracked, spanning the colours and styles below.

  • Red348 · 67%
  • White131 · 25%
  • Rose41 · 8%

Types: Still.

Representative Arizona wines

Selected from stable product-to-region relationships for diversity — not a claim that these are the region's best wines.

  • Rune — Sierra Bonita Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Caduceus — Lei Li
  • Twisted Union Wine Co. — One Seven Seven
  • Copper Horse — Sangiovese
  • Burning Tree Cellars — The Archer
  • Carlson Creek — Sangiovese
  • Cove Mesa — Carlson Creek Vineyard Malbec
  • Dos Cabezas — La Montana

Sub-regions & appellations

Within Arizona, these appellationsA legally-defined smaller growing area within a wine region, often with its own grapes and rules. are smaller growing areas, often with their own character:

  • Willcox
  • Sonoita
  • Verde Valley

Quality designations

Wines here carry AVA status — a controlled quality designation.

  • AVAAmerican Viticultural Area — a defined US grape-growing region, marking where the grapes were grown.

United States wine designations

AVA
An American viticultural area is a U.S.-government-recognized delimited grape-growing area.
Understanding the wine data
Designation
The protected-origin or administrative category associated with the wine, interpreted using country-aware rules. The same abbreviation can mean different things in different countries, so we only show the meaning approved for that country.
How this ranking is built

Producers are included when WhatDrink has a canonical producer-to-region relationship supported by the catalogue data. Display order may use represented wine count and relationship confidence to provide useful coverage; it is not a ranking of winery quality, prestige, production volume or critical acclaim.

Representative wines are selected from products with a stable relationship to this region, with preference for clear producer identity and a useful spread of producers, wine styles and designations. Inclusion is not an editorial score and does not mean these are the region’s best wines.

Explore Arizona

Ways to browse Arizona — each count is the size of that specific collection (a subset of the 520 wines tracked above):

  • Red Arizona (216)
  • White Arizona (80)
  • Rose Arizona (27)

How to choose a good Arizona wine

Look for the AVA designation — it signals a controlled-origin Arizona wine.

FAQs

Where is Arizona?
Arizona wine refers to wine made from grapes grown in the U.S. state appellation of Arizona .
What do the designation terms on Arizona wines mean?
AVA: An American viticultural area is a U.S.-government-recognized delimited grape-growing area. These terms describe geographical or regulatory categories; they do not by themselves guarantee that one producer or bottle is better than another.
How are wineries and producers selected for Arizona?
Producers are included when WhatDrink has a canonical producer-to-region relationship supported by the catalogue data. Display order may use represented wine count and relationship confidence to provide useful coverage; it is not a ranking of winery quality, prestige, production volume or critical acclaim.
How are representative Arizona wines selected?
Representative wines are selected from products with a stable relationship to this region, with preference for clear producer identity and a useful spread of producers, wine styles and designations. Inclusion is not an editorial score and does not mean these are the region’s best wines.
How much wine data does WhatDrink have for Arizona?
The current regional catalogue contains 520 linked wines from 53 linked producers. Counts describe WhatDrink catalogue coverage and may change as source data is refreshed.

Regional data is aggregated from wine directory and product-catalogue sources; grape and style associations reflect characteristic varieties and may vary by producer and vintage.