About Ferrari-Carano Winery
Ferrari-Carano Winery is the most visually spectacular and comprehensively beautiful winery experience in the Dry Creek Valley. Don and Rhonda Carano, whose family built their fortune in Nevada's hotel and gaming industry before falling in love with Sonoma wine country, established the estate in 1981 with an ambition to create something genuinely world-class: the finest Dry Creek Valley winery, in the most beautiful setting possible, producing wines that would stand alongside California's very best.
Villa Fiore, the winery's centerpiece visitor facility, features five acres of manicured Italian gardens with 30,000+ flowering plants, underground wine caves, a 6,000 square-foot reception hall, and Il Terrazzo, the outdoor terrace where the Sunday Wine & Brunch series has become one of Sonoma County's most celebrated recurring culinary events. Sonoma.com specifically highlights Ferrari-Carano as one of 'The Most Beautiful Wineries in Sonoma County', the gardens alone justify a visit regardless of the wine.
The wine program justifies it further: the Fumé Blanc, made in the Pouilly-Fumé style with barrel fermentation, is one of California's definitive expressions of this variety. The Chardonnay and Siena red blend (Sangiovese-based, honoring the family's Italian heritage) have both earned consistent critical recognition. 1,500 acres of sustainable vineyards across Dry Creek, Alexander, and Potter valleys supply the program.
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Dry Creek Valley SettingFerrari Carano is part of the historic Dry Creek Valley AVA, famous for old-vine Zinfandel and Mediterranean varieties.
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Warm-Day TerroirDry Creek Valley enjoys hot, dry summer days that ripen Zinfandel and Rhône varieties beautifully.
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Casual Sonoma HospitalityDry Creek Valley tasting rooms tend to be casual, dog-friendly, and value-oriented compared to Napa.
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Featured Wines
Sauvignon Blanc
Fumé Blanc
Sonoma County Estate
The Ferrari-Carano signature, barrel-fermented in the Pouilly-Fumé tradition, showing the grassy, mineral complexity and food-friendly acidity that has made this one of California's definitive examples of this French Loire variety grown in warm Dry Creek terroir.
Chardonnay
Chardonnay
Sonoma County Estate
Estate Sonoma County Chardonnay from sustainable vineyards across three valleys, richly styled, food-friendly, and reflecting Don and Rhonda Carano's conviction that the finest California Chardonnay combines fruit generosity with genuine complexity.
Sangiovese Blend
Siena
Sonoma County Estate
The Ferrari-Carano Italian-heritage expression, a Sangiovese-dominant red blend honoring the family's Tuscan roots in a wine that has no parallel in Dry Creek Valley for the genuine Italian varietal character it achieves in California.
Chardonnay
Reserve Chardonnay
Anderson Valley · Sonoma County
Ferrari-Carano's premium Chardonnay expression, drawing on the coolest estate sources for a more structured, mineral-driven expression that ages gracefully alongside the more immediately accessible Estate Chardonnay.
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Il Terrazzo Garden Tasting
Taste the wines at Ferrari-Carano Winery in the Dry Creek Valley AVA. Daily 10am to 5pm, reservations recommended.
$35
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Underground Cave Reserve Tasting
A seated tasting in Ferrari-Carano's underground wine caves, Reserve Chardonnay, Siena, and single-vineyard selections in the most atmospheric and architecturally dramatic tasting space in the Dry Creek Valley.
$55
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