Papapietro Perry Winery

Ben Papapietro and Bruce Perry started with a garage, old equipment and friends, and now make single-vineyard Pinot Noir and Zinfandel. You taste five on a patio over Dry Creek Valley, seventy-five minutes, $35.1

Why go

The winery specializes in small lots of single-vineyard-designate Pinot Noir and Zinfandel, with a little Chardonnay and a Rosé of Pinot Noir, drawing on the Russian River, Anderson and Dry Creek valleys.2 1 Their own account of how it started is a garage, some old equipment, good friends and a lot of humor, built one vintage at a time.1

The tasting is seated on an extended patio looking down Dry Creek Valley, guided by a host, and runs seventy-five minutes for five wines.1

Order this / avoid

Order: a single-vineyard Pinot Noir. It is the thing the label was built on.2
Order: the Reserve Tasting if you can get there Friday to Sunday, five reserve pours over the same seventy-five minutes.1
Order: the charcuterie board, which is cut from Journeyman Meat Co. salami and Nicasio Valley Cheese Co. Locarno and Nicasio Reserve, with olives, almonds, dried cherries and apricots.1
Avoid: counting on the fee coming off a bottle. Non-members pay it either way, and only club members at Bronze, Silver and Gold bring guests in free.1

Good to know

Open daily 11am to 3:30pm, booked on Tock, with walk-ins taken when there is space.1
Two prices, one tasting. $35 a head standard with a $10 deposit, and $45 a head for parties of six or more including the service fee.2 1
Supervised children and dogs are welcome, and every taster has to be 21. No outside food on the patio.1
The winery is a tenant, not the whole address. Kokomo pours at 4791 Dry Creek Rd as well and is a different producer.
Two accolades are claimed and neither could be confirmed. The winery says it won Best Red Wine in the Press Democrat's 2025 readers' poll and that Wine Spectator profiled it in May 2025; the paper's winner list would not extract and the magazine's piece is linked only as a reprint elsewhere.3

Verdict

could-visit — Bring six and it drops to $45 a head, with a board cut from Journeyman salami and Nicasio Valley Locarno. Supervised children and dogs are welcome, which is rarer in this county than it should be. The fruit comes out of the Russian River, Anderson and Dry Creek valleys, and the Reserve flight runs Friday to Sunday only. Neither accolade the winery claims could be confirmed at its publication, and no writer has put a tasting note on the wine, so the visit is what you are buying.

Papapietro Perry Winery.