taste the terroir

nineteen ways to say sonoma

Sonoma is nineteen appellations pressed into one county — fog-cooled Pinot on the Russian River, sun-warmed Cabernet Sauvignon up the Alexander Valley, old-vine Zinfandel rooted in Dry Creek gravel. Each is a different accent on the same land. Follow the wine by AVA — the American Viticultural Areas that draw those lines — and meet the growers and winemakers who read the soil for a living. Pour a glass, stand in the vineyard that made it, and listen to the terroir.