Fire Mountain Wines to debut new Native-owned label

Blue Stone Strategy Group Comes on Board as Sponsor


PHOENIX, Ariz. – The Heard Museum will be the site of the launch of a unique Native-owned wine label on Tuesday, April 5 from 6 to 8 p.m. Fire Mountain Wines will hold its inaugural wine tasting and kickoff reception in the Heard’s Central Courtyard. Media are cordially invited to attend, sample the wines and speak with the owners and winemakers.

Fire Mountain, or Dzil Ko Síaan in Apache, “symbolizes the transition between day and night, light and dark, being and vibration, as the circle of life ends and begins again,” says Jamie Fullmer, member of the Yavapai-Apache Nation, CEO of Blue Stone Strategy Group and one of the principles in the new label. “This sacred universal process and force of change is also expressed by the vine as it digs into the earth and reaches for the sky, creating fruit from our ancestral lands that eventually fills this bottle for you. Fire Mountain Wines are inspired by emotion and driven by our connectivity to spirit through our sense of place.”

Acclaimed winemaker Eric Glomski crafts the three wines in Page Springs, Arizona, using grapes grown on ancestral Apache lands in Arizona’s Verde Valley and on ancestral Salinan lands in the San Antonio Valley and the Paso Robles areas of Central California. Paso Robles and the San Antonio Valley in particular has long been acknowledged as a prime wine-growing area dating back to the late 1700s.

The Fire Mountain Red “Earth” and Fire Mountain White “Wind” are exclusively created from Arizona grapes, while the third wine, “Fire” comes from grapes grown in and around Paso Robles and the San Antonio Valley and are crafted in Arizona.

“Earth” is blended from many Arizona red grape stocks to create a big, gold red wine.

“Wind,” crafted from Malvasia, Chenin Blanc, Roussanne Sauvignon Blanc, Muscat and Pinot Gris grapes grown in the Verde Valley, carries the aromatic aromas of wild flowers blooming along the river; the fresh smells of cut grass, white peaches and summer harvest.

Fire Mountain’s “Fire” wine is a full-bodied blend of Petite Sirah, Syrah and Muscat grapes, sourced from vineyards in the Paso Robles area. “Fire is our expression of the spirit of Fire as it courses through all things living giving the power of life, to live and experience the gifts of the earth,” says Fullmer, who will be  on hand to discuss the new wine label and distributorship opportunities.

Blue Stone Strategy Group is co-sponsoring the kickoff as well as providing support for Fire Mountain Wines. As the leading Native American owned advisory firm for tribal leaders and decision makers, Blue Stone provides culturally sensitive and seasoned guidance to tribes in the areas of economic development, diversification, sustainability, leadership development, and tribal governance.

Other sponsors include Minkus Advertising, a Tucson-based promotional products dealer, which is providing the special wine glasses for the reception; and Aztec Printing, a Native-owned printing firm, which is providing printed materials for the evening.

Acclaimed Yaqui guitarist Gabriel Ayala will be on hand to provide music for the occasion.

For more information about Fire Mountain Wines, please contact Kim Secakuku at 928.221.6167 or Blue Stone Strategy at 949.476.8828. For information about the reception or the Heard Museum, please contact Michele Crank, director of public affairs and government relations at the Heard at 602.251.0232.