A certificate for a wine tasting for four and a bottle of wine from James Callahan's Rune Wines in Sonoita, AZ.  Each guest will also receive a souvenir wine glass.  Rune is about doing things differently. Experimenting, honing, focusing, crafting, and producing something that is truly unique and enticing for those that would be intrigued.

Freshly minted with a 2005 History degree from Arizona State University, Callahan did what every liberal arts major would do -- he pursued a job in the restaurant industry. He was afforded the opportunity to delve deep into an unknown world; one that offered the ability to travel to far away places without ever leaving his glass. A place where you can taste the exact creation someone made from across the seas, and gain the same benefit as anyone else savoring that same juice that same day. Wine, a magical and noteworthy pursuit indeed.

While learning the ins and outs of the wine industry from the server and sommelier side of the craft, he began to envision himself as a winemaker. While he enjoyed providing the enjoyment to guests that the service industry offered, he knew deep inside that he wanted to create wine with his own two hands. The barriers to such a pursuit are many and quite overwhelming to say the least. Being an AZ native, he was lucky enough to discover the burgeoning wine industry right under his nose. Like most ventures in their infancy there was high risk in pursuing wine-making in Arizona. 

In 2013 he founded Rune Wines. With the culmination of his knowledge thus far coupled with the knowledge gained with each additional vintage, he finally began to reap the rewards of the hard and passionate work that has led him down this path.