Sixth-generation vintner Katie Bundschu's own Glen Ellen project — Rhône-inspired, co-fermented field blends from regenerative-organic vines, poured among 80-year-old plantings. The experience runs to olive-grove grazing boards, shuffleboard, and a thoughtfully stocked mercantile of often female-made goods. Playful, communal, and reservations encouraged.

Winemaker Bart Hansen pours his Sonoma Valley wines — Rhône varietals and old-vine Zinfandel — inside The Tank, an 1880s redwood fermentation tank across from Jack London Village. A cellar rat who opened here in 2024, he usually hosts himself. Book ahead for one of wine country's most unusual rooms.

A husband-and-wife winery and love story in Glen Ellen's Jack London Village. Rob Schermeister makes native-fermented, unfiltered wines (Viognier to Pinot); designer-wife Laura creates every label and the art-filled creekside room. Every guest tastes with the vintners — and dog Eli. Reservations appreciated; hours are seasonal.

Winemaker Cindy Cosco's label — named for her Italian grandfather's Ellis Island "passage" — reopened in 2022 as a creekside wine bar and music venue in Glen Ellen's Jack London Village. Taste her unoaked Chardonnay and uncommon Italian varietals on the deck, with live music most weekends.

A boutique Glen Ellen winery founded by two newspaper photographers, its 'Taste the Vineyard' wines roaming from Russian River Pinot to Dry Creek old-vine Zin to Mendocino Syrah. The mercantile-style room across from Jack London Village has a barrel bar, a woodstove, a porch, and Eric Luse often pouring.

Wine Snob* — the asterisk does the winking — is a Sonoma Valley winery whose Glen Ellen room is hosted by the winemaking owners, Lindsey and Ryan. The wines run from Chardonnay and Pinot to oddballs like Chenin Blanc and Tempranillo, all sustainably farmed. Your taste buds, your rules.

One of California's iconic mountain Cabernets, poured in an intimate room in the heart of Glen Ellen. The fruit climbs a certified-organic estate a thousand feet up Sonoma Mountain, and the seated flights run from chilled whites to library Cabernets going back decades. Walk-ins welcome; a text ahead helps.

Talisman is Pinot all the time — a Glen Ellen specialist making tiny, vineyard-designated lots from across Sonoma County, each bottled on its own. The cozy village room pours a 90-minute terroir flight through six vineyards side by side, so you taste how place changes the wine. Appointments encouraged.

A barn-like room anchoring the south end of the village at the Highway 12 corner, family-run since 1993. Expect an adventurous lineup — Zinfandel and Cabernet beside Gewürztraminer, Carignane, and Grenache — poured as a six-wine Premium flight or a nine-pour Adventure tasting. Picnic in the dog-friendly courtyard.