Pruning Season Is a Great Time to Visit Sonoma Vineyards
Local wineries are inviting guests for tours and tastings as mustard blooms between dormant vines that are shaped for the coming harvest season.
Local wineries are inviting guests for tours and tastings as mustard blooms between dormant vines that are shaped for the coming harvest season.
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After the regular harvest concludes, but before vines shut down for the winter, a winemaker has one more chance to put their touch on the nearly-finished vintage with a late-harvest offering.
The time to sip and shop is now, and the choices of Sonoma-made bubbly are many.
These wineries have made wine tasting on Thanksgiving a tradition and close their doors early enough that staff and visitors still have time to enjoy their feast at home.
Guests can see the work in action, meet one-on-one with winemakers and explore rare wines they might never find otherwise.
These winemakers may not be well-known yet but they are well worth discovering.
Visitors to these wineries can enjoy both wine and fall while taking a hike, picking pumpkins, playing a game of pétanque and more.
At Hanzell Farm & Vineyards, the winemaker is also a lifelong organic farmer, crops grow with little added water, and sheep and ducks forage among the vines.
Here are a dozen wineries with great October visuals to go with the vino.