LDV Winery of El Mirage

LDV Winery of El Mirage is a winery in El Mirage, Arizona. It operates a tasting room where guests can try LDV wines or purchase bottles to enjoy on-site, take home, or send as gifts. The winery also maintains a wine club and an online wine shop with shipping available, and offers wine gifts for purchase. Its wines come from a vineyard in the Chiricahua Mountain foothills of southeastern Arizona, where the high-altitude terroir shapes the fruit. Visits and tours of the vineyard and winery in the Chiricahua Mountains are arranged by appointment, and the winery is a Harvest Host member.

The initials L, D, and V represent the family names Lawrence and Dunham and the word vineyard. Owners Peggy Fiandaca and Curt Dunham came to winemaking from careers in community and strategic planning, and both remain closely involved: Dunham as owner and winemaker, Fiandaca as owner and brand manager. Dunham traces his interest in wine to a bottle of 1974 Beaulieu Vineyards George Latour Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon his parents brought home from Napa Valley, and he aims for each vintage to reflect its place. Fiandaca, whose family emigrated from Sicily to a Chicago Italian neighborhood, describes the satisfaction of watching someone taste wine and identify its flavors for the first time. The winery shares wine and food pairing tips drawn from years of practice, and its tasting room has drawn coverage from magazines, podcasts, and food and wine writers, including features on women-led wineries and the Scottsdale Wine Trail.

The tasting room sits on East Stetson Drive in Old Town Scottsdale, south of Camelback Road and west of Scottsdale Road at SouthBridge. It holds a rating of 4.50 from the customers who have reviewed it.

For anyone exploring Arizona wine, LDV Winery of El Mirage pairs a working mountain vineyard with an Old Town Scottsdale tasting room where the state's high-desert fruit can be tasted firsthand.