Our editors' picks for the essential North Valley & Chico 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 North Valley & Chico itself: certified-organic mountain fruit poured downtown, winery-distillery evenings and foothill weekends on farm-family calendars.
The anchor is easy: Durham's Midway, where Almendra's winery-and-distillery pours to 9pm and shares its room with four-generation farmers Bertagna.
start at LaRocca's downtown Chico room for the certified-organic mountain estate, then Durham's Almendra-and-Bertagna double, before picking a foothill loop by calendar
Saturday for Chico and Durham, LaRocca, Almendra, Gale's reclaimed-timber cellar, Sunday for the Oroville loop anchored by Grey Fox's dependable noon-5
Every winery we track in the region, each with its own page.
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