About CRU Winery - Central Valley
CRU Winery's Central Valley room brings a Central Coast portfolio to Madera: Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Syrah and related wines from coastal vineyards, poured daily from a convenient location near the Highway 99 corridor.
Open every day from 11 to 5, it is the trail's most reliable door, the stop that always works regardless of which family wineries happen to be pouring that day, and its coastal sourcing gives Madera tasters a cool-climate counterpoint to the valley's own styles.
That contrast is the fun: taste CRU's coastal Pinot against the trail's ports and Muscats and the whole geography of California wine snaps into focus in one afternoon.