Our editors' picks for the essential Far North California 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 Far North California itself: Trappist monastery wines poured daily, Redding tasting rooms, redwood-coast Pinot and volcanic-soil Petite Sirah.
The anchor is easy: New Clairvaux Vineyard at Vina, where Trappist monks farm Leland Stanford's old ranch ground and pour daily beside a reassembled medieval chapter house.
start at New Clairvaux's Vina estate for the monastery pour that defines the region, then Burnsini's Cottonwood estate northbound, finishing at the Redding rooms
Saturday down the I-5 corridor from Vina to Redding, Sunday into the mountains: the Whitmore pair or the Trinity circuit through Lewiston and Trinity Center
Every winery we track in the region, each with its own page.
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