When it Rains, Sonoma County Pours: Great Rainy Day Wineries
Call me a romantic, but there’s is something about a roaring fireplace on a rainy day…add in a splash of wine, and you’re not enduring a rainy day, you’re celebrating it.  Here are a few wineries with fireplaces:
Wineries with fireplaces
Roche Winery 28700 Arnold Drive Sonoma (707) 935-7115
Alderbrook, 2306 Magnolia Dr. Healdsburg (800) 405-5987
B.R. Cohn 15000 Sonoma Highway Glen Ellen (800) 330-4064
Dutcher Crossing 8533 Dry Creek Rd. Healdsburg (866) 431-2711
Lambert Bridge Winery, 4085 W. Dry Creek Rd Healdsburg (800) 975-0555
Stryker Sonoma, 510 Hwy 128 Geyserville, (707) 433-1944
Wine Caves
Rain or shine, summer or winter, the temperature is constant in wine caves. So drippy days are great times to tour some of Sonoma Counties Wine Caves.
Bella Winery and Wine Caves
Tasting in the cave is $5 and is open every day from 11 am to 4:30 pm. The Cave tour allows you to taste barrel samples and end the tour in a private area of the cave to taste finished wines.$15 per person.
9711 West Dry Creek Road, Healdsburg 707-473-9171
Deerfield Ranch
Tastings in the cave 11am to 4:30 pm. Tasting fees $10-$25
10200 Sonoma Highway, Kenwood 707-833-5215
Favero Vineyards
Cave tours by appointment only, call 707.935.3939 or email faverovineyards(AT)vom.com 3939Lovall Valley Rd Sonoma,
Fritz Underground Winery
Underground Winery Tasting Room from 10:30 to 4:30 daily. tours on Saturday and Sunday by appointment only. call at 707.894.3389 to book a tour.
24691 Dutcher Creek Road, Cloverdale
707-894-3389
Gundlach Bundschu Winery
Tasting $5 daily 11am-4:30 pm. Vineyard Excursions, Cave Tastings by appointment only Barrel Cave Tour & Tasting Thursdays through Mondays at 1:30 pm $20
2000 Denmark Street, Sonoma
707-938-5277
Kunde Estate
Open daily from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.Tasting $10 to $20 per person. Guided tours of aging caves every Friday, Saturday and Sunday throughout the day at no charge and without appointment for groups of ten or less.
9825 Sonoma Highway 12, Kenwood
707-833-5501
Nalle Winery
Above ground (man-made) wine caves. Open Saturdays from 12-5, Occasional Fridays and Sundays , and other days by appointment.
2383 Dry Creek Road, Healdsburg
707-433-1040
Vineyard of Pasterick
Tasting and wine caves open by appointment only. 707-433-4655 or email gerry(at)pasterickwine.com
3491 West Dry Creek Rd. Healdsburg
707-433-4655
Pride Mountain Vineyards
Open by appointment only. Tour and tasting (including the caves) $15 per person.
155 St Helena Rd. Santa Rosa
707-963-4949
Robert Young Estate Winery
$5 tasting fee. Open 10 am to 4:30 pm every day.
4960 Red Winery Road, Geyserville
707-431-4811
Other Rainy Day Alternatives
Want to revel in the outdoors without getting drenched (without an umbrella?) Try a hike in Armstrong Woods. Consider the 300 foot tall redwoods 2,000 year old umbrellas. It will be drippy, but even in torrential downpours, most of the rain doesn’t make it down to the forest floor. Bring a rain jacket with a hood and water resistant shoes, and enjoy the fresh clean air and the damp, earthy forest smell. Got bored kids? Check out the best rainy day activities for kids in Sonoma County.
Looking for a hotel in Healdsburg? Check out Uptake.com’s Healdsburg Hotels listing.
8 comments
Wine caves sound like a lot of fun. Plenty of wineries in NZ, but none I can think of that have a cave.
I love Sonoma in the rain – the wineries aren’t crowded and it’s nice to listen to the rain with a glass of red in your hand. A perfect afternoon indeed.
That walk sounds really nice on a rainy day. Thanks for all the recommendations!
What a great roundup! Tucking this away for my next visit home.
My god I’ve never even heard of wine caves before, but I’m suddenly wishing I didn’t live on the east coast!
I have to confirm how awesome it is to do wine tastings on rainy days. I was recently touring all of the wineries in NJ for a magazine piece I was working on and, in order to fit them all in, had to go out on some pretty crummy days. Entering a cozy tasting room after being out in the dampness and the chill was reward enough. Tasting great wines while indulging in some vineyard-related conversation were the cherries on top.
Next time the Aussie posse pass thru town during less-than-stellar weather we’re heading up to Sonoma with this list in tow.
Cheers!
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