WINDSOR + HEALDSBURG

1. Bricoleur Vineyards 📅 🐶 👶 🍽️ ✨
   Beautiful grounds with bocce, gardens, and multi‑course food pairings.
   Visit: The Essentials Picnic, $75 per person

2. Marine Layer Wines🚶 🍽️ ✨
   Stylish downtown space with coastal‑influenced wines + snacks from Little Saint.
   Visit: Flight ~$40

3. House of Flowers 🍽️ 📅 ✨
   Best wine + food pairing, plus beautiful outdoor seats or fireplace‑side tastings inside.
   Visit: Estate tasting with food pairing, $130

4. Bloodroot Wines ✨🚶
   Design‑forward space + affordable wines from high‑quality grapes. Occasionally music.
   Visit: Flight or glass pour, $25–35

5. Idlewild Wines 🍽️🚶
   Wine bar just off the plaza offering Italian varietals and charcuterie.
   Visit: Tasting + charcuterie, $30

6. Benovia Winery 📅
   Appointment‑only, organic estate known for elegant Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
   Visit: Vineyard Tour & Tasting, $75

7. Siduri Wines 🚶
   Casual spot for single‑vineyard Pinots from Sonoma and beyond.
   Visit: North to South Tasting, $50

8. Wren Hop ✨ 📅
   Playful, small‑production wines with a cult following. No kids.
   Visit: Tasting, price ??

9. Verité Winery 📅 🍽️
   Prestigious Bordeaux‑style blends in a refined, appointment‑only setting.
   Visit: Estate Tasting, $250

10. Aperture Cellars 📅
    Great wines in a beautiful, architecturally-driven setting overlooking the vineyards + photography exhibit.
    Visit: Soil Series, $50

11. Smith Story Wine Cellars 🐶 👶 🍽️ 🚶
    Laid-back, family-run tasting room in Bacchus Landing.
    Visit: New Release Tasting, $25

DRY CREEK VALLEY

1. Bella Vineyards & Wine Caves 🐶 ✨ 🍽️ 🚶
   Zinfandel specialists with tastings in a hillside wine cave + hikes.
   Visit: Tasting on the lawn, $35

2. Preston Farm & Winery 🐶 👶 ✨🚶
   Chill, no‑reservation‑needed winery with excellent olive oil + picnic tables.
   Visit: Grab a bottle + have a picnic

3. Dutcher Crossing 🐶🚶🍽️
   Warm and welcoming tasting room with a strong Zinfandel lineup.
   Visit: Outdoor seated tasting, $40

ALEXANDER VALLEY

1. Silver Oak Cellars 🍽️ 🚶
   Cabernet icon with sleek modern tasting room and high‑end experience. Live music Sundays in June.
   Visit: Silver Oak Tasting, $65

2. Medlock Ames 🍽️ 🚶
   Romantic olive grove setting with estate wines & house‑made olive oil in a former gas station.
   Visit: Signature Tasting, $45

SONOMA (TOWN & VALLEY)

1. Gundlach Bundschu 🐶 👶 ✨ 🚶
   Family‑owned estate with vineyard hikes and a fun, laid‑back vibe, and frequent events.
   Visit: Estate tasting or Rhinefarm tour, ~$50

2. Three Sticks Wines 📅 🍽️
   Pinot‑focused producer with tastings in a historic adobe home.
   Visit: Oysters & Chardonnay, $95

3. Ram’s Gate Winery 🍽️ 🚶
   Design‑forward Carneros tasting room with food pairings and a modern vibe.
   Visit: Seated Tasting, $60

GLEN ELLEN

1. Lasseter Family Winery 🐶 🍽️ 📅
   French‑style blends, scenic views, and yes—a private miniature train.
   Visit: Patio Tasting, $60

2. B.R. Cohn Winery 🐶 🍽️ 📅
   Approachable wines + musical heritage in a scenic setting. Has a summer music series.
   Visit: Wine Flight, $40

3. Imagery Estate Winery 👶 🍽️ 🐶 🚶
   Fun, approachable wines with nice outdoor space + frequent live music on weekends. Love the wine + chip pairing (cute!)
   Visit: Wine + Chip pairing, $45

4. Abbott’s Passage 🍽️ 👶 🐶 ✨🚶
   Sister winery to Gundlach Bundschu with Rhône blends, great cheese board, fun shop, and shuffleboard court.
   Visit: Signature Flight, $45 or wine by the glass

CARNEROS

1. Gloria Ferrer 🍽️ 👶🚶
   Known for its sparkling wines and Spanish‑style estate. Walk-in friendly for a glass on their patio.
   Visit: Sparkling flight + food pairings, $60

2. Donum Estate 📅 🐶 🍽️ ✨
   Great wines plus an impressive sculpture garden with pieces by artists like Yayoi Kusama.
   Visit: Sculpture garden tour + tasting (Carneros experience) $100

3. Cline Cellars 🐶 🍽️ 👶🚶
   Family‑owned and family‑friendly winery with Rhône varietals and scenic grounds.
   Visit: Private Cabana tasting $30

SEBASTOPOL / GUERNEVILLE / WEST SONOMA

1. Dutton‑Goldfield Winery 🐶 👶🚶
   Friendly, down‑to‑earth tasting of cool‑climate Chardonnay and Pinot.
   Visit: Farmer’s Flight, $35

2. Red Car Wine Co. 🐶 🚶
   Stylish, surf‑inspired tasting bar focused on Syrah and coastal Pinot.
   Visit: Coastal Tasting, $35

3. Porter Creek Vineyards 🐶 🚶
   Tiny, low‑key tasting shack pouring biodynamic Pinot and Viognier. Reservations preferred.
   Visit: Grand Wine Tasting, $50

4. Hartford Family Winery 🐶 👶 🚶✨
   Known for elegant, small‑lot Pinot Noir and Zinfandel from old vines. Worth trying to catch their pizza + music + wine tasting (some Sundays).
   Visit: Estate tasting, $60

5. Gary Farrell Vineyards & Winery 🍽️ 🚶
   Terrace tastings with sweeping views & Russian River Pinots. Bottle service also available.
   Visit: Discovery Tasting, $55