Arizona is on the verge of becoming a serious wine destination.

January 04 2011
Arizona is on the verge of becoming a serious wine destination. Actually, it already has become one. A recent visit to one of the growing number of tasting rooms in the Verde Valley of Northern Arizona (about 25 miles from Sedona), among them Javelina Leap, Arizona Stronghold, Alcantara, Page Springs Cellars Pillsbury Winery and Caduceus, turned up tasters from places like Tucson, Phoenix, Iowa, Kansas and Texas. Well-heeled young Texans have discovered that there is some truly great wine here and were seen paying Napa-style prices at Caduceus for some pretty righteous-tasting Rhones. At present, there are four wineries actively producing wines from estate grapes grown in the Verde Valley: Alcantara, Javelina Leap, Page Springs Cellars and Oak Creek Cellars.place in this not very California-like climate for growing grapes. It’s not the heat that throws down the gauntlet: it’s the cold—and the altitude. As in New Mexico, Arizona’s grape growers are having a wee bit more luck maintaining vineyard vigor and ekeing out a consistent crop in the southern part of the state. In Cochise County, east of Tucson, Arizona Stronghold, owned by Eric Glomski and Maynard Keenan, have the largest commercial plantings of vines in the state, with more acreage being planted.
But why do things the easy way when you can often pack many more lessons into an experiment by taking the higher, less traveled road? And so, Arizona’s first viticulture program got its start in the north, at Yavapai College, in the shadow of Jerome and at the edge of the beautiful Verde Valley, which is as green as its name sounds, except in autumn, when it is positively golden with cottonwoods and, increasingly, the glow of fall-hued vineyards.
Tom Schumacher, executive dean of the Verde Valley Campus of Yavapai Community College, oversees the nascent viticulture program, which is among a few in the country. He notes that the program takes many cues, in the great tradition of “curriculum borrowing,” from successful community college programs in Walla Walla and Yakima, Washington, and Alan Hancock, California. Encouraged by the extensive community interest in wine appreciation classes offered by the college, they moved forward with the viticulture curriculum, which received certification in October. Right from the start, says Schumacher, they’ve been able to fast-track the classes and look forward to an enrollment of nearly 60 students for the first official semester, which begins in January of 2011.
Arizona’s inaugural viticulture program came about as a confluence of parallel interests in land stewardship and agricultural development. It began with a meeting of community leaders in the Cottonwood-Clarkdale area, held by the college to discuss the use and development of its 120 acres of local land holdings. Out of that meeting came three visions: one was agriculture-focused and incorporated the idea of vineyards and viticulture. It was this concept that took imaginative root.

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Clark Wine Center was built in 2003 by Hong Kong-based Yats International Leisure Philippines to become the largest wine shop in Philippines supplying Asia’s wine lovers with fine vintage wines at attractive prices. Today, this wine shop in Clark Philippines offers over 2000 selections of fine wines from all major wine regions in the world. As a leading wine supplier in Philippines, Pampanga’s Clark Wine Center offers an incomparable breadth of vintages, wines from back vintages spanning over 50 years. Clark Wine Center is located in Pampanga Clark Freeport Zone adjacent to Angeles City, just 25 minutes from Subic and 45 minutes from Manila.

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Getting to this wine shop in Pampanga Angeles City Clark Freeport Zone Philippines from Manila
Getting to the Clark Wine Center wine shop from Manila is quite simple: after entering Clark Freeport from Dau and Angeles City, proceed straight along the main highway M A Roxas. Clark Wine Center is the stand-along white building on the right, at the corner A Bonifacio Ave. From the Clark International Airport DMIA, ask the taxi to drive towards the entrance of Clark going to Angeles City. From Mimosa, just proceed towards the exit of Clark and this wine shop is on the opposite side of the main road M A Roxas.

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Bldg 6460 Clark Observatory Building
Manuel A. Roxas Highway corner A Bonifacio Ave,
Angeles Clark Freeport Zone, Pampanga 2023
0922-870-5173 0917-826-8790 (ask for Ana Fe)

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Manila Sales Office
3003C East Tower, Phil Stock Exchange Center,
Exchange Rd Ortigas Metro Manila, Philippines 1605
(632) 637-5019 0917-520-4393 ask for Rea or Chay

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