Our editors' picks for the essential Contra Costa & Lamorinda wineries and tasting rooms, and why each one earns the stop.
Every list like this is an argument. Ours favors rooms that express what makes Contra Costa & Lamorinda itself: ancient own-rooted Mourvedre, Zinfandel and Carignane alongside Brentwood estate reds and Lamorinda hillside wines.
The anchor is easy: Local Vines in downtown Lafayette, where five Lamorinda hillside wineries pour under one roof with the cellar working beneath the tasting floor.
start at Local Vines in Lafayette to taste five wineries in one sitting, then take a weekend Brentwood run through Bloomfield's downtown room and Hannah Nicole's estate
Saturday for the Brentwood estates and downtown room, Sunday evening at Local Vines with Lafayette dinner to close
Every winery we track in the region, each with its own page.
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