In 2024, Doajo Hicks owned one Phoenix restaurant, two Valley taprooms and a southern Arizona vineyard. Over the past year, each of those Valley spots has shuttered, leaving Hicks with Coronado Vineyards in Willcox. On Sunday, that property burned down.
A structure fire was reported at Coronado Vineyards at 4:24 a.m. on July 6, according to Willcox Fire Chief Dale Hadfield. The vineyard, located 91 miles east of Tucson, was closed to guests for the summer.
Hadfield said the building that housed the vineyard’s tasting room and shop is a “total loss.”…