2022 is here, and it’s fitting to reflect as we commence another year. Back in 2004, while driving south on Napa Valley’s Silverado Trail after helping at Neyers Vineyards with my friend Tadeo Borchardt, I whispered to myself that one day I would be involved in the world of making wine. Was I mollifying my own existential anxiety over the future by dreaming the impossible? Perhaps. “Be careful what you wish for,” the saying goes.
Three years after arriving in Sonoita, my winemaking team at Los Milics has planted Vranac, Teroldego, Vermentino, Grenache, Petit Verdot, Montepulciano, Marsanne, Malvasia Bianca, Tannat and Carignan from Juan Alba (vineyard manager for Dos Cabezas WineWorks) on our estate vineyard, which is rendering robust yields. The tasting room will be complete in a couple of months.
After four years of collaboration with Chen + Suchart Studios, the art installation in the middle of the vineyard will be ready to make memories to outlast our lifetimes. Starting with vintage 2020, we will debut our new label that intends to match the gravitas of the architecture and point to provenance, with a depiction of Southern Arizona’s iconic mustangs. We start building lodging this summer with a targeted completion projected for first quarter of 2023.
At Los Milics, we hope to continue Arizona’s winemaking song while striving to elevate and showcase Arizona’s bounty and its terroir through the lens of winemaking, architecture and our bucolic setting. All this picture needs is you. So, come on down and experience our love letter to Arizona.
Los Milics Vineyards
423 Upper Elgin Rd., Elgin
520-221-0180, losmilics.com
