Pillsbury Wine Company

Pillsbury Wine Company was founded in 2006 by Sam Pillsbury, a New Zealand filmmaker and screenwriter who moved into winemaking after a film project brought him to Phoenix and led him to explore Arizona vineyard land. He had previously bought vineyard land on Waiheke Island in New Zealand during the 1980s but left that project when work took him to Los Angeles. In Arizona, he purchased 40 acres next to an existing Cochise County vineyard in 2000 and, with partner Al Buhl, planted 20 acres of Rhone varieties there. In 2006 they sold that vineyard, and Pillsbury started Pillsbury Wine Company across the road on 100 acres he had purchased separately. The estate now farms 14,000 vines on 32 acres. The winery operates a tasting room in Willcox.

Written by Ava from public sources. Not written or reviewed by the winery.