Enjoy your walk and choose from our wineries with downtown tasting rooms, in the tabs, and our wine walk tasting rooms, in the cards below. Eight stops, set in walking order by LocaleLoop, our routing engine. Open the route on the town map and add a table, a ride, a place to stay.
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Cabernet was first planted at this east-facing Sonoma Mountain site in 1968. Founder Patrick Campbell, who bought the property in 1977, discovered he'd inherited a unique clone now known as the Laurel Glen Clone. After 30 vintages, Bettina Sichel's group acquired the estate; organic since 2014, farmed by Phil Coturri.
The Mayo family has made single-vineyard wines from across Sonoma County since 1993, a portfolio ranging from Chardonnay and Zinfandel into harder-to-find Carignane, Petite Sirah, and Alicante Bouschet. The Glen Ellen tasting room is dog- and family-friendly; the Reserve Room in Kenwood offers a seven-course food pairing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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