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Sonoma In Full Relief: Landscape, Climate, And The Wines Between

Cost: 30

Sonoma County is one of California’s most compelling wine landscapes precisely because it refuses to be just one thing. Folded between the Pacific Ocean and the Mayacamas Mountains, its patchwork of valleys, ridgelines, fog corridors, and sun-baked benches creates a rare convergence of climates and soils. This remarkable diversity gives winemakers an unusually broad palette, allowing them to craft wines of depth, personality, and place across a wide range of styles.

At this tasting, we’ll explore Sonoma’s most expressive corners — regions long celebrated for their luminous Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, intimate pockets that produce some of California’s most soulful Zinfandel, and windswept, often overlooked sites where Bordeaux-inspired blends thrive in cooler, more restrained conditions. Along the way, we’ll trace how proximity to the ocean, elevation, and shifting soils shape each wine’s texture and voice.

Sonoma’s hallmark is contrast: warm afternoons that coax ripeness, followed by bracing evening fog and cold nights that preserve freshness and structure. The result is wines that balance generosity with tension — ripe yet vibrant, powerful yet precise. This is Sonoma unearthed not as a single style, but as a mosaic of landscapes, histories, and flavors, inviting you to taste just how beautifully variety can coexist within one extraordinary county.

Wines TBA. 

All prices listed reflect regular retail. Significant discounts will be offered on all wines tasted. Due to the highly allocated nature of some selections, wines may change without notice.

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