Sedona, AZ: Sedona Adventure Tours has put together a new and creative all-day activity for visitors and locals alike — a tour of Jerome wine tasting rooms, shops, galleries and dining along with tours of wineries in the Verde Valley. This tour joins the Adventure Tours’ three-hour afternoon tours of the wineries in Page Springs and their “Water to Wine Tour.” The latter includes a Verde River inflatable kayak float trip that ends at the Alcantara Winery located on the river just outside Cottonwood.
This “Jerona Wine Tasting Tour” is touted as the “ultimate wine tour experience” and an extraordinary romantic wine adventure” by Richard Lynch, owner of the tour company.
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“This tour is perfect for our visitors since we provide the transportation, historic information and color, lunch, shopping opportunities, and the pleasure of tasting wines created right here in the Verde Valley,” he said.
The tour departs Sedona from their “boathouse and headquarters” on Coffee Pot Drive in groups of four to eight or no-charge pickup at hotels and lodging can be arranged.
Jerome, Arizona's most famous ghost town situated high on a mountaintop near Sedona. >>
The company van travels to the mile high ghost town of Jerome located about forty minutes from Sedona, leaving around ten in the morning. Upon arrival in Jerome they visit the Caduceus and Bitter Creek wine tasting rooms.
Dining at Grapes Restaurant can be also included in the cost of the tour. Time is allocated to wander the streets of Jerome and shop and explore the many intriguing and interesting features of Arizona’s most famous ghost town including its numerous art galleries and boutiques.
<< Hotel Conner in Jerome, Arizona, a historic ghost town near Sedona, Arizona..
After lunch and shopping the tour descends from Jerome to visit the Alcantara Winery on the Verde River for another tasting experience. Then along the Oak Creek in the Page Springs area the tour visits the Page Springs Winery and if time permits, Javelina Leap or Oak Creek Vineyards.
The tour is personally guided and narrated by Sedona Adventure Tours guides and includes complementary hotel pickup and drop off if requested and refreshments. The tour is priced at $116 without lunch or wine tastings to $169 per adult, which includes lunch at Grapes Restaurant, and four wine tastings. The tour departs Sedona at 10 a.m. daily and returns at 4 to 5 p.m. in the afternoon.
To make a reservation or for more information call 928-204-6440 or visit www.SedonaAdventureTours.com.
Article and photographs by Al Comello.
Posted November 19, 2009
