Wine tasting rooms in Sedona

Start with the geography, because it explains the list. There are no vineyards in Sedona. The Verde Valley’s vines are down the hill in Page Springs and Cornville, around Cottonwood, and out by Camp Verde, where the elevation and the river make growing possible. What Sedona has is tasting rooms and wine bars, which pour wine made elsewhere.

Vino Zona Sedona, 336 SR-179, is upstairs at Tlaquepaque and pours Arizona wine. If the point of the afternoon is tasting what this state makes, that is the one.

The Art of Wine, 101 North SR-89A, is a wine bar and shop: bottles to take away as well as glasses to drink there, and a wider range than Arizona.

Vino di Sedona, 2575 West SR-89A, is a wine bar and tasting room, and it also appears on our Sedona bars page because it genuinely is both.

If you want the real thing

An afternoon in Sedona tasting rooms is pleasant. An afternoon among the vineyards is a different experience, and it is thirty to forty minutes away: Page Springs Road in Cornville has several producers within a couple of miles of each other, and Old Town Cottonwood has a walkable strip of tasting rooms where you park once.

The wine trail guide lays out all of it by area, and the Old Town guide covers the Cottonwood strip room by room.

The practical note

Do not drive the switchbacks after a tasting. SR-89A through Oak Creek Canyon and SR-179 down to the Village are both roads that punish inattention, and the Verde Shuttle between Sedona and Cottonwood runs hourly, 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days, for $2 each way. That is the cheapest designated driver in the state.