Healdsburg Crush

A harvest-season benefit for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma-Marin, set in downtown Healdsburg when the cellars are humming: sixty-plus producers pour limited-production Pinot Noir and sparkling at tasting booths, with a VIP passport buying an extra hour of face time and a charity auction sending 100% of proceeds to the clubs. The pouring bench leans serious — Williams Selyem, Merry Edwards and the sparkling house Iron Horse among them. Confirm the 2026 date before you plan around it.

What sets this one apart is the ratio of vintners to visitors: it's a compact, walkable pour where the people behind the labels are often the ones behind the table, so a question about a cool-vintage call gets a real answer instead of a shrug. The lineup leans toward Russian River and true Sonoma Coast fruit — the sort of small allocations that rarely escape a mailing list — and the harvest timing means you're tasting in the thick of the very season filling the tanks a block away. It reads less like a mega-festival and more like a town throwing open its cellars for an afternoon.