Sonoma winery hosts tastings at spiffed-up historic adobe.
Grape grower and vintner Bill Price owns two of Sonoma County’s most renowned vineyards, Durell and Gap’s Crown. Both specialize in Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Price sells grapes to other wineries but reserves some of the best fruit for his Three Sticks Wines. Winemaker Ryan Prichard crafts wines from these estate vineyards and four others in Sonoma County.
Spiffed-Up Adobe
San Francisco designer Ken Fulk spiffed up a historic 1842 adobe structure, a hundred or so steps west of Sonoma Plaza, that Price purchased to serve as the Three Sticks tasting room. With handmade-tile floors, dark exposed wooden ceiling beams, plush leather chairs, and judicious splashes of luxurious velvet and other fabrics, the interior (lead photo) feels both of its time and contemporary.
Tastings
All visits to Three Sticks are by appointment only. The one-on-one tastings include one of recently released wines and a few focused on food and wine. Two seasonal offerings showcase single-vineyard Chardonnays: one (from late spring to early fall) stars oysters; the other (late fall to early winter) features caviar. Some tastings take place outdoors in The Adobe’s garden or the property’s former storehouse.
Why go: historic setting; top winemaker; famous vineyards.
Itinerary
Three Sticks Wines appears in Sonoma Pinot Noir Day Trip.
Info
143 W. Spain St., Sonoma 95476
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This story originally appeared online in 2017; it was most recently updated in 2026.
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