Nello Olivo's Placerville tasting room is inside the Sequoia Mansion on Bee Street, standing since 1853 and, Placerville will tell you, haunted. This is a tasting at the bar, not the seated cellar experience: a flight of the Grapefather's Italian varieties, poured and talked through by whoever is behind the bar that day.

Book any number of seats, one to ten. The room opens when a time slot reaches four people. If a slot does not get there, we cancel it the day before and refund every ticket in full, and you are welcome at the Camino tasting room on Apple Hill instead, open Thursday to Monday.

$15 a person, about 90 minutes. Saturdays and Sundays at 1 pm and 3 pm through the end of October. Guests 21 and over. Groups of more than ten, or any question: 530-207-0396.