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Solid · Geyserville

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Dino Bugica cures prosciutto, salumi, sausage and lardo on the property, and the board of it costs $30. There are pig skulls in the back garden.

Solid · Healdsburg

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In 2022 this became the first Sonoma County winery certified Regenerative Organic.

Solid · Santa Rosa

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The Tubbs Fire took every building on this hill on 8 October 2017 and the Bycks rebuilt it underinsured.

Solid · Sebastopol

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Pax Mahle was buying wine for Dean & DeLuca when he moved west in 1997, and by 2000 he was making cool-climate Syrah while everyone else planted Pinot Noir.

Solid · Santa Rosa

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Fried chicken coated in arborio rice flour, on smashed potatoes loaded with butter and cream, under a caramelized pancetta glaze.

Solid · Santa Rosa

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The original downtown pub, 725 Fourth Street, open every day from 11 until 10. For two weeks each spring it pours Pliny the Younger and people start queueing at five in the morning.

Listed · Healdsburg

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Charlie Palmer put Julia Child's boeuf bourguignon on the menu at $25 and deglazes it with beef stock instead of red wine. He cooked next to her on PBS.

Listed · Santa Rosa

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Mark Stark cooks over a custom grill that weighs 1,600 pounds and runs near 800 degrees, with a V-channel cut into it to catch the fat and baste the meat back.

Listed · Sonoma

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Six generations of one family have farmed Rhinefarm since 1858, and the vineyard now carries Regenerative Organic Certification.

Listed · Glen Ellen

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Jamie Benziger took the cellar her father built when he retired in 2017 and makes small lots of uncommon varietals under painted labels.

Listed · Kenwood

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Vines went into this ranch in 1879 and it now runs to 1,850 acres with caves under it. Twenty-five dollars gets you the cave and a tasting; a hundred gets you driven to a deck at 1,400 feet.

Listed · Windsor

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Mary Fazio started in Boyes Hot Springs in 1959 with her father's recipes and her own pots.

Listed · Healdsburg

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Thirty-five dollars buys five current releases and nobody stands over you. You take a glass into the garden and come back to the bar when you want the next one.

Listed · Sebastopol

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Six vineyards, every one of them within ten miles of the Pacific, and the estate block planted in Fort Ross-Seaview in 2005. $35 for an hour, walk-ins welcome, last pour at four.

Listed · Sonoma

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Luis Robledo and his sons came from Mexico in 1942 under the Bracero program to pick California's crops. Fifty-five years later the family was making wine off its own Carneros ground.

Listed · Valley Ford

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The burger carries Sonoma Mountain grass-fed beef and Estero Gold from the creamery across the street. Highway 1 at Valley Ford, with the hotel upstairs.

Listed · Healdsburg

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Zinfandel and Italian heritage varieties, poured on a lawn in downtown Healdsburg with a bocce court on it.

Listed · Santa Rosa

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Started in 2013 as one person filling bottles by hand. It now runs a taproom on the corner between downtown Santa Rosa and the SOFA arts district, six nights a week.

Listed · Santa Rosa

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The beef is dry-aged in house, and the house burger is ground from the same aged meat as the steaks. An 1892 building in downtown Santa Rosa, open since 2008.

Listed · Santa Rosa

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Mark and Terri Stark were running small plates out of an 1886 roadhouse from 2002.

Listed · Healdsburg

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Zinfandel off Dry Creek Road since 1993, made inside a century-old tin barn that Ken and Diane Wilson restored. The tasting is on the deck.

Listed · Sebastopol

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They opened in the Barlow promising no flagship beers, no kegs out the door and nothing in stores.

Listed · Healdsburg

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Molotes, tasajo and chapulines on a Healdsburg menu, ten to nine daily with a patio. Those are Oaxacan dishes and they are not standard around here.

Listed · Healdsburg

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Cyrus Alexander's homestead, in the valley named after him, with a 48,000-square-foot cave underneath. Twenty dollars for four estate wines at the bar.

Listed · Sonoma

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Small-lot Rhone and Burgundian wines off Carneros, on an estate the winery runs on wind and solar. There is also a pickleball court above the Picpoul.

Listed · Santa Rosa

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John Balletto was seventeen when he took over the family farm in 1977. He built the largest vegetable operation in Northern California, then pulled it all out and planted Pinot Noir.

Listed · Sonoma

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Frank and Antonia Bartholomew bought this land in 1943 and discovered Agoston Haraszthy's house and original winery on it.

Listed · Healdsburg

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Over seventy percent of the fruit comes off Bella's own century-old vines, and you taste it underground in the caves. Thirty-five dollars seated, capped at eight people.

Listed · Glen Ellen

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Mike Benziger converted the Sonoma Mountain estate to Biodynamic farming in 1995, and Tribute in 2001 was the first Demeter-certified Biodynamic wine released out of Sonoma County.

Listed · Kenwood

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One of the few Sonoma Valley estates that still takes walk-ins, and three wines at the bar is $30. The chateau is 1920s and the single-vineyard programme dates to 1973.

Listed · Healdsburg

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The first vines went in on Limerick Lane in 1972 and still make the Reserve Petite Sirah and Reserve Syrah. Sixty dollars gets you the Pinot straight out of the barrel.

Listed · Santa Rosa

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Roasted zucchini flowers for $18 next to a wood oven, in a Santa Rosa complex that also holds a brewery and a set of micro-wineries.

Listed · Santa Rosa

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Mark Dierkhising cooks a Country Benedict and a duck confit hash on Santa Rosa Avenue, and finishes with his grandmother's cinnamon-sugar pull-aparts.

Listed · Geyserville

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Dogs come into the tasting room, onto the patio and onto the lawn, and Lady the Labrador is usually on the door.

Listed · Santa Rosa

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Named for the belt of coastal fog between Big Sur and the Oregon border where the redwoods grow. The barrel-aged and experimental beers are cellared at this original Santa Rosa site.

Listed · Windsor

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Saralee and Richard Kunde planted this Windsor ground to Burgundian varieties in 1989 and the vineyard still carries her name. Thirty-five dollars gets you six wines on a patio above it.

Listed · Kenwood

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Damaris Deere Ford started this in 1974 and hired Helen Turley in 1993 to rebuild the Chardonnay. There are bocce courts, and the tasting is $60 an adult and $15 for children over seven.

Listed · Healdsburg

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More than thirty Chardonnay vineyards and fifteen Pinot Noir sites go through 130-odd small fermentations here every vintage, the Pinot in one-ton bins.

Listed · Sonoma

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Pangloss pours three labels of one house on the Sonoma Plaza, and the top flight comes off Moon Mountain: 49 blocks between 1,000 and 1,800 feet on six volcanic soils.

Listed · Geyserville

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Five estate vineyards the family farms itself, in Alexander Valley for four decades. Henry Trione started it and his granddaughter is running it now.

Listed · Sonoma

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Roche pours on a porch over Sonoma Plaza, with a shaded garden behind it, from a family that has farmed here since 1982. The barrels are at the other door.