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. Sixteen 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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A family business with deep California roots: Bill Isetta's grandfather was a 1920s cooper, and both his and Marilyn's fathers worked at Christian Brothers. Bill, Marilyn, and son Dominic work with partner growers such as the Sangiacomo, Cuneo, and Kunde families, with Ryan Kunde as winemaker. The Sonoma Plaza tasting room is open late and family-friendly.
Bill Price ('Billy Three Sticks' to his friends, for the III after his name) founded the label in 2002, building it on the Durell Vineyard, where his story in wine began. The tasting room occupies the 1842 Vallejo-Casteñada Adobe in downtown Sonoma, with wines from six estate vineyards across Sonoma County.
Phil Coturri's personal winery, California's most influential organic viticulturist, who has farmed Kamen, Amapola Creek, and Moon Mountain for 40+ years. The tasting house is a 120-year-old Sonoma Plaza farmhouse with antique theater seats, a vinyl turntable, and original Stanley Mouse Grateful Dead art. Single-vineyard organic wines Phil farms himself.
The Sonoma Plaza face of three sister wineries (Pangloss, Repris, and Texture) in a restored 1902 stone showpiece. Wines are made at Repris on Moon Mountain and barrel-aged in natural rock caves. Winemaker Erich Bradley sources Pinot, Chardonnay, Chenin, Grenache, and Sauvignon Blanc from heritage Sonoma vineyards.
Robert Mark Kamen (screenwriter of The Karate Kid, Taken, and The Fifth Element) bought 280 acres on Moon Mountain with his first screenplay check. Phil Coturri planted organically farmed vines in volcanic rock at 1,100 to 1,450 feet. Mark Herold has made the wines since the early 2000s.
Founded in 2001 by friends Craig Haserot and Erich Bradley, Sojourn built its reputation on single-vineyard Pinot Noirs from revered sites (Gap's Crown, Rodgers Creek, Sangiacomo) plus small-lot Chardonnay and Cabernet. The winery owns no vineyards, partnering with growers. The downtown Sonoma salon is steps off the Plaza.
On the north side of the Plaza since 1931, the Sonoma Cheese Factory now pours from The Wine Shop at Sonoma Cheese Factory: hyper-local, small-production bottlings, many rarely sold outside Sonoma County, with the Sonoma share growing every season. Choose a bottle and the knowledgeable staff will match it with world-class cheese and charcuterie from the counter, or house-smoked meats from The Butcherman. The best tables in the house are on the sidewalk, European-café style, facing the Plaza green.
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WALT, the Hall family's Pinot label, works a room off the northwest corner of the Plaza, pouring Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from across the Pacific Coast: Sonoma Coast to Anderson Valley to Oregon. The signature flight runs a thousand miles of Pinot, with caviar and charcuterie alongside.
SIGH is Sonoma's champagne bar, opened in 2012 by Sonoma native Jayme Powers after years with a California sparkling house. The list runs from grower Champagne to California sparkling and rosé, poured by the glass, the flight, or the occasional frozen slush. Walk in.
A glass-walled corner on the Sonoma Plaza where founder Lloyd Davis leads a seated, food-paired tour through seven Sonoma AVAs, each limited-production pour matched to a bite and explained. Twice named the best tasting room in the U.S. by USA Today readers, and proudly unintimidating.
Sosie (French for 'look-alike') makes California wine in the image of the Rhône, the Loire, and Burgundy: Grenache Blanc and Marsanne whites, Pinot Noir, Syrah, picked early for acidity and restraint. The tasting room sits on Vine Alley, off the square. Built for the table.
Winemaker David Rossi's Pinot-centric label, built by cold-calling California's finest growers: small-lot, vineyard-designated bottlings from grand cru sites like Gap's Crown and Walala. The casual-elegant room sits just off the Sonoma Plaza; $35 buys five wines, and Rossi himself is often pouring.
A literal red barn tucked off the Sonoma Plaza, pouring the down-to-earth Highway 12 and Highwayman labels (Sonoma red blends, Zinfandel, Trailblazer) from longtime friends Paul Giusto and Michael Sebastiani. Roadhouse-casual and dog-friendly, with $20 flights, chill tunes, and tented patio seating.
An offshoot of the family's Della Santina's Trattoria, opened just off the Plaza in 2007 and built around a 250-bottle "wine wall" of hard-to-find local and international labels. Some thirty pour by the glass alongside the full trattoria menu. Old World, unhurried, and the town's living room.
The shared tasting bar of partners Adam Webb and Mike Kuenz, whose 2004 winemaking odyssey yields small-lot Rhône and Iberian varietals (Syrah, Pinot Gris, rosé) raised in French Hogshead barrels. Just off the Plaza, it pours flights with cheese, charcuterie, and espresso on a covered patio.
A wine bar and wine club a few blocks east of the Plaza, built around sommelier Todd Jolly's list of world-renowned wines and top spirits under a full liquor license. A marketplace and deli round out the space, and four cottages offer an overnight retreat. Easy and community-minded.
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