dos cabezas wineworks

This was the second stop on our wine tasting tour. We were advised to take in our glass from the pervious winery and we would received a 10% discount. This information was correct and the woman pouring the samples was very knowledgeable and friendly. The tasting room was recently remodeled and is very attractive and inviting. There was a wood burning stove in the corner and the friendliest cat you could ever find. As soon as you sat on the bench near the stove the cat jumped in your lap and started purring. He loved being petted. The tasting list consisted of nine (9) wonderful red wines. They were very good but most were quite pricey ($50).

This was a beautiful place for wine tasting and they were very helpful to visitors. We had our very first tasting there and they helped us to understand the process and gave us tips on places to see.

An average tasting room with ok wine. Not worth the price for a bottle. They do however give many samples on their tasting menu. The tasting room is right in town which makes it convenient if you're there already.

We love visiting the Sonoita/Elgin wineries a time or two during the winter and Dos Cabezas has become the go-to, top-rated of all of the wineries. Although it is not situated in a vineyard, it still has great ambiance....take a group photo in the barrel room!

My husband and I had seen Dos Cabezas wines before, but had never had the chance to taste one. DC is only a tasting room in Sonoita, their vineyard is in Willcox. Nice location, easy to find, and pleasant inside, some outdoor seating. It was slightly busy when we arrived, but we found a location at the bar, fyi...no stools or seats, in fact, no bar seating at any of the wineries we visited....interesting. Tasting was basic, had a nice list, our server described each wine as she poured, but nothing more. Most were quite good, a couple were not my type, but we ended up buying a bottle as a gift. I did notice a couple of people who complained about the wines and dumped them out. We enjoyed them over all. Not an outstanding visit, not much interaction from our server, but she was steadily busy with everyone visiting. We would go back. Tasting is more expensive then other wineries, but bring your glass from another winery and save about $6/person. Pours were generous.

I am from wine country in Eastern Washington and I appreciate the wines from this area in Arizona. Who would guess that some great wine can be found in Arizona? Dos Cabezas does a great job, especially with their red wines. The winery is at an altitude of almost 5000 ft and probably gets cool nights to go with the hot Arizona days that are needed to make a good red wine. I sampled a number of red wines and all were very good. I am going to use this opportunity to knock Xanadu Ranch Get Away for not including Dos Cabezas on the map that they use for promoting themselves in the Sonoita area. Dos Cabezas is truly one of the best wineries in this area! Karen, the lady serving the wine at their Sonoita location is exceptional.

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.Dos Cabezas had the second-best wine that we tried, after Callaghan (Callaghan has some top-notch wines). Dos Cabezas is definitely worth a stop, however.While we liked the wine at Dos Cabezas, the winery is only a winery and tasting room, with grapes brought in from the Willcox area about 90 miles northeast of Sonoita. That's true for most of the other Sonoita area wineries as well, although some have their own local vineyards and that always adds to the ambience of a winery tasting room. Dos Cabezas, however, is just an older building in the heart of Sonoita.

Our first visit to Arizona wine country. Dos Cabezas' wines show lots of promise -- Oregon wine pioneer Dick Erath has been doing some winemaking and consulting with Sonoita-area wineries, so the outlook is good. Once local vintners figure out the microclimates, soils and which grapes thrive best results should be excellent. For now, the wines are for the most part decent and drinkable -- but I didn't find any here that I felt I HAD to take back to Oregon with me.

this is one of the must stop places. really good wines. nice lady behind the counter. cute place. again one of the best 3-4

Todd & Kelley Bostock are making world class wines. A must stop into their tasting room will prove to be very rewarding. The "Red" is a wonderful Sangiovese mash-up.

This was our 1st stop. Tasted some good wines. It was interesting. Will be able to find the wines up in mesa area also.

This was our first stop on our visit to the wine country. Was kind of shocked at the $15 tasting fee. The wines were good, not overly impressive. Not too much to say about the place.

I have done quiet a few wine tastings in Northern Arizona, through the Verde Valley regions, and absolutely love it. Southern Arizona wine tasting is a bit different, so if you haven't been to this region, I recommend reading this, as I will touch on that, then on Dos Cabezas. If you only wish to read about Dos, then skip the next 2 paragraphs. In Northern Arizona you usually go to a tasting room, and do a flight of about 5 tastings, for about $10, and you use one of their glasses, that they later wash out reuse. The tasting rooms are large and very inviting, chairs, couches, perhaps music, friendly wait staff, etc... It is about the whole experience. Southern Arizona is quite different. Here you are going to visit a vineyard, not just a tasting room (except at Dos Cabezas, which does not have an on site vineyard). The tasting rooms are not as inviting, most are in warehouses, and have limited seating, if any. It is highly recommended to bring your own glass, or buy one at the first place you go, as you will pay a lot more at each place if you use one of their glasses (but you will keep the glass). The servers are pleasant, and are VERY knowledgeable, but they are not a waiter like up North. Southern Arizona is much more about the wine, and selling bottles (though no one ever pushed bottles on us) then it is about a relaxing wine tasting experience. This is by NO means to put down Southern Arizona wines, it is absolutely worth doing, the wines are great, but know that it is a different experience. Dos Cabezas:There is no onsite vineyard, this is a tasting room. It is small, with 1 fairly large 3-sided bar and 1 round high top table. A flight of 10 tasting (2 white, 1 rose, 7 reds) is $15 if you do not have a glass, $9 if you do. When we got there it was rather busy and we had to wait a while to get to the bar. The wine, in my opinion, was not good. There was a harsh taste of alcohol in every wine (like rubbing alcohol or vodka flavor) and the wines were not that enjoyable, to me. With that said, I know a lot of people who really like DC wines, and there were A LOT of bottles being purchased while I was there. Because it was busy, and there was only 1 server, the service was completely lacking. She would run over, dump some wine into the glasses then move on. Not particularly friendly, or inviting. I believe the pouring may have been a big part of the problem with the flavor of the wines, as you are supposed to pour wine nicely and a lot of places even use an aerator for the bold reds, I have never seen someone so carelessly dump the wines before. If you are in the area, it is certainly worth checking out, I think it is worth going to all of the wineries, and seeing which you like. For us, this was not a pleasant experience.

This tasting room is pretty pricey at $15 a flight- to be fair, they do give you quite a lot of samples (more than some of the other tasting rooms), and this of course is the price including the glass which you take home.None of the wine blew me away, I enjoyed the tempranillo, but as it sat in the glass it changed flavor and wasn't all I thought it was initially. It's a nice place to stop in if you're driving through the area...but if you're driving through the area you might as well visit the other vineyards in the area ;)The woman pouring was nice, but didn't really engage or speak with us about the wines. Oh well. I will probably leave this room out of our Sonoita tasting rotation.

This was right across he street from where we are staying for the night. It was great to walk and not have to drive, a good way to end the day!