Travel Reference
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Hanna
WINERY
Healdsburg; tasting $10-20; 10am-4pm; )
Abutting oak-studded hills, Hanna's tasting room has lovely vineyard views and good pic-
nicking. At the bar, find estate-grown Merlot and Cabernet, and big-fruit Zins and Syrah.
Sit-down wine-and-cheese tastings are available ($25). Bottles cost $18 to $56.
Hawkes
TASTING ROOM
707-433-4295;
www.hawkeswine.com
; 6734 Hwy 128, Healdsburg; tasting
$10; 10am-5pm; )
Friendly Hawkes' makes an easy stopover while you're exploring the valley. The single-
vineyard Cab is damn good, as is the blend; there's also a clean-and-crisp, non-malolactic
Chardonnay. Bottles are $30 to $70 and the tasting fee is refundable with a purchase.
Stryker Sonoma
WINERY
ing $10; 10:30am-5pm; )
Wow, what a view from the hilltop concrete-and-glass tasting room at Stryker Sonoma.
The standouts are fruit-forward Zinfandel and Sangiovese, which you can't buy anywhere
else. Good picnicking. Bottles are $20 to $50; tasting fee is refundable with purchase.
Trentadue
WINERY
Geyserville; tasting $5-10; 10am-5pm; )
Specializes in ports (ruby, not tawny); the chocolate port makes a great gift.
Sebastopol
Grapes have replaced apples as the new cash crop, but Sebastopol's farm-town identity re-
mains rooted in the apple - evidence the much-heralded summertime Gravenstein Apple
Fair. The town center feels suburban because of traffic, but a hippie tinge gives it color.
