Tour The World’s Best Vineyards
Category: Sonoma Wineries
Toad Hollow Vineyards began operation in 1994, with 3000 cases of 1993 Russian River Valley Chardonnay. Our Chardonnay is 100% Stainless Steel fermented, using no oak at all. Since then we have added additional wines, a Russian River Merlot (Richard McDowell Vineyard), a Russian River Pinot Noir (Goldies Vines) a Zinfandel from Paso Robles and a Rose of Pinot Noir from Carneros.
Sonoma’s most complete ‘Wine sensory experience’. Winery tours, historical tours, trolley tours. Customized private tastings, educational wine seminars, soil to bottle, and component tastings. Art gallery with rotating exhibit from local artists.
Nestled like jewels at the center of Chateau St. Jean, “The Chateau” and gardens convey the beauty and grace that distinguish both the winery and its Sonoma County wines. When Chateau St. Jean was established in 1973, “The Chateau” was fully restored and opened to the public. It has since been listed in the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The fishponds in the shape of Lakes Michigan and Huron, and the arched footbridge, delight visitors just as they did 80 years ago.
Address: 16275 Healdsburg Ave., Healdsburg, CA 95448 Phone: 707-473-3231 or 800-746-4880 Website: www.simiwinery.com The Simi Winery Visitor Center is open daily from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm for wine tasting, winery tours, retail sales and Wine Club discounts. There are two winery tours daily at 11:00 am and 2:00 pm. If you would like to [...]
Founder Edoardo Seghesio planted his first grapevines in Alexander Valley in 1895. Since then, four generations of the Seghesio family have tended remarkable vineyards with the perspective gained from history, the humility of farming and the enduring passion to improve with each vintage.
Enjoy a picnic on our lush green lawns, by one of the six spring-fed ponds, surrounded by the glorious fragrant blossoms of over 5,000 rose bushes, dozens of rustling willow trees and ever-changing gardens. And visit the California Missions Museum while you’re at Cline.
Before there were vineyards in every valley north of San Francisco, before Napa and Sonoma were household names, before there was a California wine industry at all, there was Buena Vista. Founded in 1857, Buena Vista is California’s oldest premium winery, and its history is as colorful as it is proud. Just outside the town of Sonoma, the original winery is now a California Historic Landmark, and home to our Tasting Room & Visitor’s Center.
Benziger Family Winery is creating a new definition of wine quality through its certified-sustainable, organic and Biodynamic winegrowing practices. Their 85-acre, certified Biodynamic Sonoma Mountain estate has become a research and teaching center for the cultivation of grapes with more flavor, intensity and site-specific vineyard character.
St. Francis Winery & Vineyards, located in the heart of Sonoma Valley, produces big, bold, full-bodied wines that deliver on flavor. Each wine is produced from 100% hand-picked Sonoma County fruit and is a direct expression of our winemaking philosophy of “maximum extraction, minimal intervention.”
At Ravenswood, there’s no pinkie raising, brie eating, wine spitting wimpiness. Oh no. At the home of No Wimpy Wines, you’ll get to taste mind blowing zinfandel, witty conversation with our behind-the-bar staff and, if you so choose, private or group tours of Zinfomania Central (the winery) and a blending seminar, where you’ll learn how to make your own No Wimpy Wine.