THE TOUR GUIDE
Sonoma Wineries With Vineyard Tours
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95 wineries
Explore all Sonoma County wineries →Sonoma does tours differently than Napa. Less marble, more mud, and the person walking you through the vines is more often family than staff. The wineries below all run a real vineyard or cellar tour, grouped by town, with a note on what each walk covers. Sonoma properties tend to be working farms first, so the tours run on farm logic. Mornings are better, reservations are expected, and closed shoes will not be a mistake.
01
Dry Creek Valley
02
Los Carneros
03
Glen Ellen
Benziger Family Winery runs the tour the rest of the county gets measured against, a tram ride through biodynamic vineyards that has been voted the best in wine country more than once. Lasseter Family Winery walks its organic Glen Ellen vineyards on the way to Bordeaux and Rhone style blends. Imagery Winery adds a different reason to linger, an art collection that rotates with every release.
04
Kenwood
Kunde Family Estate covers 1,850 acres of Sonoma Valley hillside, and its tours climb high enough for a view most visitors never get of the county. Deerfield Ranch Winery is a small family operation that takes visitors into a serious working cave. Chris Hamilton Cellars keeps it personal, a Kenwood property born from a 2009 love affair with wine country, with food and a picnic area on site.
05
The town of Sonoma
History does the heavy lifting here. Buena Vista Winery is California's first premium winery, founded in 1857, and its tour walks the original stone cellars. Gundlach Bundschu Winery has farmed the same corner where three growing regions meet for 165 years, and the property tour explains why that corner matters. Sebastiani Vineyards & Winery keeps a historic barrel room of antique redwood tanks that is worth the stop on its own.
06
Santa Rosa
St. Francis Winery & Vineyards has spent over 55 years on certified sustainable vineyards at the foot of the Mayacamas, and the tour makes the sustainability case in the rows rather than on a placard.
07
Russian River Valley
08
Alexander Valley
09
Green Valley
10
Chalk Hill
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Elsewhere in Sonoma County
Pick one tour and build the day around it. Sonoma distances are shorter than they look on the map, but the county rewards staying in one valley over sprinting between three.