Yolo County beyond the Delta: Capay Valley's tribal estate and ranch wineries, Tempranillo country in the Dunnigan Hills, the walkable wine-and-dinner town of Winters, and estate lavender at the edge of Davis.
Beyond Clarksburg's Delta wineries, Yolo County spreads a second wine country across the Capay Valley, the Dunnigan Hills, Davis and the town of Winters, farm-road geography where tribal enterprise, family ranches and college-town estates each pour their own version of the county.
The anchors tell the range: Seka Hills expresses the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation's relationship with its ancestral Capay Valley through wine and olive oil tasted together in Brooks; Matchbook Wine Company, the Dunnigan Hills flagship, pours the Tempranillo that carried the AVA to statewide shelves from a patio over its Zamora vines; Great Bear frames Davis with vineyard, orchard and lavender; and Winters concentrates the county's sociable side, Berryessa Gap on Main Street and Turkovich with its family creamery cheeses on Railroad Avenue. Around them, Taber Ranch hosts the Capay Valley's gatherings, Grindstone works the Dunnigan slopes, and Collina De Bella, farming the oldest commercial vineyard in the Winters Highlands AVA, pours by occasion.
Plan it as two easy days: the Capay-Dunnigan farm loop, then a Winters evening; the county's distances are short and its tables are good.
The Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation's estate brand in the Capay Valley, its ancestral homeland, with a Brooks tasting room pouring estate wines alongside the tribe's olive oils, the county's signature experience.
Tempranillo, led by Matchbook Wine Company, the AVA's largest producer, whose Zamora patio tasting overlooks the estate vineyards.
Yes: Berryessa Gap's Main Street room and Turkovich's wine-and-cheese counter sit a block apart amid the town's restaurants, making it the county's best walkable wine evening.
The Winters rooms and Matchbook welcome walk-ins; Capay Valley visits range from public tasting at Seka Hills to call-first and event-based access at the valley's small producers.
All 11 wineries we track across the Capay Valley, Dunnigan Hills, Davis and Winters, each with its own Wino Notion page. For the Delta wineries, see our separate Clarksburg & Delta guide.