Sonoma Pinot Noir Day Trip
Top tasting rooms in and around historic Sonoma Plaza. Several of the best Sonoma County Pinot Noir producers have tasting rooms on or near the town of Sonoma’s […]
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Pinot Noir
Sojourn Cellars
Boutique winery’s tastings highlight the role “terroir” plays in wine production. A boutique winery with a bungalow tasting room a little east of Sonoma Plaza, Sojourn Cellars receives high
Patz & Hall
Gracious staffers pour remarkable Chardonnays and Pinot Noirs at understatedly elegant tasting room. Renowned for single-vineyard Chardonnays and Pinot Noirs, Patz & Hall hosts its guests at the ranch-style Sonoma House.
WALT Wines
Sonoma wine tasting room of HALL St. Helena sister property serves Pinot Noirs from Oregon to California’s Central Coast. The indoor and outdoor spaces at a Tudor-style 1930s
Three Sticks Wines
Sonoma winery hosts tastings at spiffed-up historic adobe. Grape grower and vintner Bill Price owns two of Sonoma County’s most famous Chardonnay and Pinot Noir vineyards, Durell and Gap’s
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Martinelli Winery
Longtime Sonoma County grape growers make fruit-forward wines with palpable restraint. The first Martinellis began growing grapes in Sonoma County in the 19th century, and some of the
Following the Oregon Wine Trail in California
Master class surveys Oregon Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, followed by a broader tasting including other varietals. I hit the Oregon Wine Trail on March 4th – albeit in SanFrancisco
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Boutique Winery’s Sonoma Mountain Pinots Shine
La Pitchoune makes two wines each year from van der Kamp Vineyard. Whenever I see a Pinot Noir from Sonoma Mountain’s van der Kamp Vineyard, I’m always curious
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Joseph Jewell Wines
“Killer Pinots from high-quality fruit” is the goal at Russian River winery specializing in single-vineyard wines. The aha moment that sparked Joseph Jewell Wines vintner Adrian Jewell Manspeaker’s infatuation with
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Bucher Pinot Trio a Total Delight
In the late 1990s, when the economics of dairy farming in Northern California became problematic, John Bucher diversified by planting wine grapes on the 360-acre Healdsburg property his
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