Sonoma County Wine Tour: Self-Guided GPS Audio Driving Guide
- 2–6 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- 2 languages
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
Drive Sonoma County yourself, with a GPS audio guide that plays automatically as you go. Your booking unlocks the whole region in the free Wine Trails app: pick your date and starting point — Sonoma Plaza, Healdsburg, Santa Rosa or Sebastopol — choose the cellar doors you want from 76 across the county, and the app builds your personal route with turn-by-turn narration. 96 narrated stories cover the county's people and places: as you pass the Sonoma Plaza you'll hear how a flamboyant Hungarian who called himself Count Agoston Haraszthy founded Buena Vista east of the plaza in 1857, then returned from Europe with over 100,000 cuttings of 300 grape varieties and seeded an entire industry. No group, no schedule, no guide — pause for a long lunch in Healdsburg, replay anything, and the audio keeps working when the signal drops. You'll need a car and a designated driver; tastings are booked and paid directly with the wineries.
Inclusions
What's included
- Email and in-app chat support
- Buy once, no expiry - use it on this trip and every future trip
- Complete offline download - audio, maps and route stored on your phone
- Trip planner to build, reorder and save your own route across the four corridors
- 72 mapped Sonoma County cellar doors with ratings and whether a booking is required
- GPS-triggered audio driving tour of Sonoma County - stories play automatically at each location
- One purchase covers everyone in the vehicle
Itinerary
California's first commercial winery, founded in 1857 by the Hungarian emigre Agoston Haraszthy, who imported 300 European grape varieties and built stone cellars into the hillside east of Sonoma Plaza.
Six generations of the Bundschu family have farmed this Rhinefarm estate since Jacob Gundlach planted it in 1858, making it the oldest family-run winery in California.
A 1920s country house at the foot of Sugarloaf Ridge in Kenwood, where winemaker Richard Arrowood pioneered single-vineyard Chardonnay in California in the 1970s.
Tom Jordan built this Alexander Valley chateau in 1972 to make Cabernet and Chardonnay in the Bordeaux manner, and the estate still releases only those two wines.
Samuele Sebastiani arrived from Tuscany in 1895, worked the local quarries, and bought his first cellar in 1904; the family name has been on Sonoma wine ever since.
Three Bohemian brothers built this Russian River estate in the 1880s on the site of their old logging camp, and it has made bottle-fermented sparkling wine there ever since.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Know before you go
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Operated by
- Wine Trails
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- By giving your phone number you agree to receive up to 2 texts from Wine Trails about this booking (your tour link and a tour-day reminder)
- Msg & data rates may apply. Msg frequency: max 2 texts per booking. Reply STOP to opt out, HELP for help
How it compares in Napa & Sonoma
- Its from-price is 95% below the median of the 59 day trips we list in Napa & Sonoma.
- It is shorter than most of them.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Napa & Sonoma
Napa and Sonoma are California's best-known wine valleys north of San Francisco, a landscape of vineyards, oak hills, small towns and tasting rooms.
Napa Valley is a narrow valley about fifty kilometres long, running north from the town of Napa through Yountville, St Helena and Calistoga, with vineyards on the valley floor and hills on either side. Sonoma Valley lies to the west, over the Mayacamas range, with the historic Sonoma Plaza, a Spanish mission and the village of Glen Ellen. Both are known worldwide for wine, especially Cabernet Sauvignon in Napa and Pinot Noir and Chardonnay in the cooler parts of Sonoma.
Top-ranked sights in Napa & Sonoma: Madonna Estate Winery, Jacuzzi Family Vineyards, Oxbow Public Market.
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