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have stepped into somethey were tilling to plant one’s beautiful backyard. A vineyards and dug up this old White Oak Vineyards & large grass area welcomes turn-of-the-century weather Winery you, offering red pop-up vane with a horse on it. It all 7505 Hwy. 128 umbrellas for shelter on kind of came together naturalHealdsburg warmer days. As you enter ly,” said Macek. 707-433-8429 the cool tasting room, a bit When visiting the winery whiteoakwinery.com of history is hung on walls and tasting room, guests can that are the barrier between marvel in the wines while Mauritson Wines the production that you taking in the views. The year2859 Dry Creek Road cannot see but certainly round, outdoor tasting room Healdsburg smell. features outdoor heaters for 707-431-0804 Mauritson focuses pricolder days and overhead fans maurtisonwines.com marily on Zinfandels, offerin the summer. The valley ing eight different releases. below is the perfect backdrop Iron Horse Ranch & The highly sought-after for photographs or a romantic Vineyards Rockpile reds are created glass of bubbly. 9786 Ross Station Road from grapes grown in the “The vineyards turn a gorSebastopol Rockpile AVA. Elements geous yellow, some turn red; 707-887-1507 including high elevation, it is very pretty here,” said ironhorsevineyards.com coastal winds and a setting Macek. “Harvest is a busy higher than the fog line time but people love to come make for a rare combinaout here. September has some tion and, most importantly, the vines are sitof the most beautiful weather.” uated on the Hayward fault, lending multiple Every year, the winery throws a large soil types in a close proximity. harvest party onsite and open to the public. “The heart and soul of what the MauThis year the event is scheduled on Sunday, Sept.20. Tickets are $75 per person for non-members and include tastings and newly released Pinot Noirs. “Generally we release the Pinot Noir around the harvest party or sometimes even at the harvest party,” said Macek. “We are earlier for sparkling wine—they come in with lower sugar, usually the second week of August.”
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the cutting edge of cultivation, producing single-soil wines alongside their coveted Rockpile reds, but this winery also holds a deep history of family and farming. Founded in 1868 in the Dry Creek Valley, Mauritson celebrates six generations of family famers that have continued to work the land around the Lake Sonoma area. “I think what is really unique about us is that we are a six generation grower turned winemaker family. We have the experience from ground to glass and it has been a 150year journey to get where we are here,” said Leigh Behrens, Mauritson tasting room manager. While the tasting room is just off of Dry Creek Road, when you pull onto the parking lot, all sounds of the world outside of the winery disappear and it feels as though you
ritson family is focusing on is the Rockpile releases, the small production wines,” said Behrens. “Definitely here at the tasting room, we invite people to experience the Dry Creek wines as well as the Rockpile wines.” New fall releases will be available for tasting during their October 3 release party, open to the public. “That peak experience is what people are looking for and when they come here in the fall, it is when the magic happens,” Behrens said. For more information on joining the New Release Party or to learn about the winery, visit www.maurtisonwines.com. SD