Charles and Molly Meeker founded The Meeker Vineyard in 1984, a decade after buying their first Dry Creek vineyard, and the family still runs it with a take-nothing-seriously-but-the-wine spirit. After years in the landmark Geyserville bank building, the tasting room now sits behind a gate beside Longboard Vineyards a few blocks off the Plaza, with pours in a working cellar and a tucked-away patio. Big, bold reds; walk-ins welcome.

Hirsch is one of the West Sonoma Coast's most revered estates — planted by David Hirsch in 1980 on a remote ridge above the Pacific, farmed biodynamically since 2014. The estate is closed to the public, so this intimate appointment-only room at Old Roma Station is where you taste its acclaimed Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, often with older vintages alongside. Book ahead; seats are few.

Truett Hurst's Tasting Barn fills the 1903 French-American cellar at Old Roma Station, opened in late 2024 after founder Phil Hurst reclaimed the label and partnered with vintner Ken Wilson. The flight runs through Dry Creek and Russian River Valley wines — the family's Zinfandel-rooted range — in a vintage-modern room steps from the river. Closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Hudson Street Wineries is a friendly co-op in the original 1890 cellar of the French-American Winery at Old Roma Station, pouring five small Sonoma family labels side by side. It's a relaxed, low-cost way to sample fifteen-plus wines across a dozen varietals in one sitting, with an adjacent barrel room for events and the occasional Friday-night music. 'Where the river meets the tracks.'

Old Roma Station is the historic riverside complex at Hudson and Front — 'where the river meets the tracks' — in buildings that housed the French-American and Roma wine companies before Prohibition. Today it's a cluster of independent tasting rooms and Wine Country Bikes, with plenty of outdoor space by the Russian River. A one-stop pocket of the walk where you can taste several labels without moving the car.

Seghesio is Healdsburg's standard-bearer for Zinfandel, planted by Italian immigrant Edoardo Seghesio in 1895 and farmed by five generations since. A few blocks northeast of the Plaza, the tasting room opens onto The Grove — a shaded lawn with bocce courts where you can settle in with a glass. Worth the short walk for the Zin alone.

LIOCO was dreamed up in the alley behind Spago and is now the Licklider family's minimalist, site-driven label, poured in a chic little room just off the square. The wines are restrained and precise — Chardonnay and Pinot Noir first, with playful detours into heirloom Carignan and a rare mid-century Valdiguie. Casual, walk-in friendly, with good records on the turntable.

Bob Mueller, a chemist by training, founded his label in 1991 to chase Russian River Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, and Wine Spectator has named him among California's top Pinot producers. The unpretentious downtown room is the kind of place where Bob himself might pour you a glass. Ask for Emily's Cuvée.

Little Saint fills the former SHED building on North Street — a 100% plant-based restaurant, wine lounge, café, and music venue from Laurie and Jeff Ubben with creative direction by Ken Fulk. Its wine program, recognized by the Wine Spectator Restaurant Awards, runs to sustainable and natural producers with a deep Sonoma bench. More gathering place than tasting bar.

Portalupi is Jane Portalupi and Tim Borges's Cal-Ital love letter, made since 2002 in a warehouse-chic room a block north of the Plaza. The wines lean Italian — Vermentino, Barbera, Charbono — and the house signature, a white called Vino Bianco, comes in a milk jug on tap, a nod to the family's dairy past. Famously warm; charcuterie and caviar on the side.

Hartford's downtown salon is the in-town counterpart to its secluded Green Valley estate near Forestville, pouring the same expressive, single-vineyard wines off the square. The focus is Russian River Pinot Noir and Chardonnay plus old-vine Zinfandel — 'high personality' wines, as the family puts it. Dogs welcome on the patio.

Named for the Babylonian goddess of wine, Siduri was founded in 1994 by Adam Lee and Dianna Novy on a single obsession: cool-climate, single-vineyard Pinot Noir. The Healdsburg lounge is the relaxed home for it — cozy seating, a vinyl collection, and the signature flight that travels a thousand miles of coastline in a sitting.

David Ramey is one of California's most respected winemakers, and the family's urban winery near Memorial Bridge is where you taste why — elegant, balanced wines built to age. Tastings are seated and by appointment in an upstairs parlor overlooking the cellar, six wines over about ninety minutes. Founded with his wife Carla in 1996.

Marine Layer is named for the fog that makes its wines possible — authentic, cool-climate Chardonnay and Pinot Noir drawn from windswept coastal vineyards. The light-filled room on Center Street pours flights by day and shifts to wines by the glass after 5pm. Reservations recommended; walk-ins welcome when there's room.

Ernest works the coldest, windiest reaches of the West Sonoma Coast, and its Tasting Lounge on Center Street pours the results — minimal-intervention Chardonnay and Pinot Noir of real precision. The Edaphos label is the house's room to roam, celebrating offbeat varietals from across California. Founded in 2012.

Selby is the oldest tasting room downtown, owned and run start-to-finish by Susie Selby a half-block off the square. The wines are well-made and unpretentious — and have been poured in the White House since 1995, across four administrations. A quiet, friendly stop with a small patio.

Martha Stoumen, a leading voice in California natural wine, opened her first tasting room a block north of the Plaza in October 2025. The room runs late and easy — an Italian all-day café in spirit, with wines by the glass, flight, or bottle and a regularly changing food menu. Walk in, or book through Tock.