Our editors' picks for the essential Tehachapi 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 Tehachapi itself: high-elevation Primitivo, Malbec, Pinot Noir and Rhone varieties grown near 4,000 feet in one of California's newest AVAs.
The anchor is easy: Tehachapi Wine & Cattle Company, the first established vineyard in the mountains.
Start downtown at Stray Leaves to meet the AVA, then drive Cummings Valley Road for Wine & Cattle and Triassic back to back
Day one: Cummings Valley estates, Wine & Cattle, Triassic, Tehachapi Winery. Day two: Dorner's terraces, Los Viajeros' view and downtown Stray Leaves
Every winery we track in the region, each with its own page.
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