Our editors' picks for the essential Fresno & Central Valley 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 Fresno & Central Valley itself: farm-first family wines poured with live music, food trucks and event calendars in the most productive farmland in America.
The anchor is easy: the west-side cluster, four wineries within a few farm-road miles: Croatian-rooted Ziveli, music-forward Engelmann, LoMac and Moravia.
start at Ziveli beside the San Joaquin to learn the west side, then run the Kings River circuit through Cedar View's palm lane, with Fresno State's student-made wines the essential detour
Saturday for the west-side cluster and an Engelmann evening, Sunday for the Kings River circuit with a Kingsburg finish
Every winery we track in the region, each with its own page.
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