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Passalacqua Winery

Dry Creek Valley · Dry Creek Valley AVA
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Hours
Sat–Sun 10am–4pm
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Phone
(707) 433-5550
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Tasting Fee
From $25
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Reservations
Walk-ins welcome
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Est.
1989

About Passalacqua Winery

Passalacqua Winery occupies one of the most spectacular hilltop positions in Dry Creek Valley — a Lambert Bridge Road estate with 360-degree views that stretch across the entire valley to the Alexander Valley hills and coastal range beyond. The Italian-American Passalacqua family has farmed this hillside since 1985, producing estate Cabernet Sauvignon, Zinfandel, Sangiovese, and Barbera with a philosophy rooted in their Northern Italian heritage.

The estate has been featured on the Wine Road and is a member of the Sonoma County Vintners collective — producing wines that genuinely reflect the hilltop microclimate's unusual combination of warm days and cool coastal nights. The Zinfandel and Sangiovese are particularly noteworthy — made from old hillside vines that produce wines of concentrated complexity.

The by-appointment tasting experience is warm and personalized — reflecting the family's decades-long commitment to direct visitor connections rather than the anonymity of walk-in volume.

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Passalacqua Winery isPassalacqua Winery is the most personally rooted and family-historically deep wine estate in the Dry Creek Valley.
The Passalacqua familyThe Passalacqua family — seventh-generation Sonoma County farming descendants of Italian immigrants who came to California before statehood — have been working this specific piece of Lambert Bridge Road farmland for generations, long before wine became the dominant agricultural product of the surrounding hills.
The farming legacyThe farming legacy shows in the wines: dry-farmed heritage Zinfandel vines that pre-date the modern wine industry, alongside Primitivo, Barbera, and Sangiovese that honor the family's Italian agricultural roots.
"The most personal and family-rooted Dry Creek Valley estate — seventh-generation Sonoma County farming family produces s"
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Featured Wines

Zinfandel
Dry Farmed Zinfandel
Dry Creek Valley Estate
Heritage dry-farmed estate Zinfandel from seventh-generation Passalacqua family vines — concentrated, complex, and showing what generations of stress-farming without irrigation produces in Dry Creek Valley's most characteristically Californian grape.
Estate
★★★★☆
Primitivo
Primitivo
Dry Creek Valley Estate
The Italian ancestor of Zinfandel — Passalacqua's Old World Primitivo honoring the family's Italian agricultural heritage in the variety most closely related to their Dry Creek Valley estate Zinfandel.
Estate
★★★★☆
Barbera
Barbera
Dry Creek Valley Estate
Estate Italian-heritage Barbera from the seventh-generation Passalacqua family farm — bright cherry acidity, food-friendly warmth, and genuine Italian character from dry-farmed Dry Creek Valley soils.
Estate
★★★★☆
Sangiovese
Sangiovese
Dry Creek Valley Estate
Estate Sangiovese honoring the Italian roots that brought the Passalacqua family to Sonoma County — herb-tinged, medium-bodied, and showing what seven generations of Italian-Californian farming knowledge produces in Tuscany's signature grape.
Estate
★★★★☆

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Family Farm Weekend Tasting
Walk-in weekend tasting at a seventh-generation Sonoma County family farm — dry-farmed heritage Zinfandel, Primitivo, Barbera, and Sangiovese from one of Dry Creek Valley's most personally rooted and unpretentious Italian-heritage estates. Dogs welcome.
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