California Wine Country Wineries, Tours and Attractions

Northern California Wineries

Wine Country Welcome (WCW) has winery information for those who wish to tour the wine country of Northern California.
How all this works

Just move your mouse cursor over the winery tabs to the left and you will see links to over 600 northern California wineries.

In addition to information on wineries, WCW has links to restaurants pouring local wines, posh hotels, apple-dumpling B&B's and other odds and ends. For more information on how this all works, please visit our "about us" page.

Napa and Sonoma Wineries

Although our main focus, is on Sonoma and Napa County wineries, we welcome wineries located anywhere in the northern wine country of California.

All wines are not created equal but it is our belief that all wineries are.

We appreciate the genius of time and toil it takes to create some of the best wines in the world.

If you have endured the heartache (and often heartbreak) of toiling for long hours in the sun to produce this nectar of life, we are working to promote your winery on these pages.
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How to Find a Winery

If you wish to browse through all the wineries in Napa or Sonoma, please visit those pages. Our wine pages are set up for easy scrolling and we have indicated what wineries have tasting rooms.

The best way to find out if a winery is on WCW is to use the search tool at the top right-hand side of all our pages. If you know where a winery is located, the drop-down menu on the left side of all our pages will give you a phone number (if available). The drop-down menus also will have direct, one-click links to wineries' events, wines, kudos and other valuable information when available.

When you find a winery on our site you would like to visit for a tasting, please contact them directly to find out if you will need an appointment. The majority of wineries in Napa and Sonoma request you make advance reservations for their tastings.

This is because many of them operate small, family vineyards, and their main purpose is to grow and create the best wines possible. While many of these wineries also love visitors, some do not so, again, visit their websites to find out.

Most also charge a tasting fee these days. These fees are normally well worth it and many are waived if you purchase some wine.

We would like to have a list of all the wines each winery produces for you but this task would be overwhelming to perfectionists like us. These things do tend to change from season to season.

The wine country provides a perfect venue for weddings. Visit our Weddings page to find out what wineries offer on-site services for your perfect wedding or reception.

When visiting the Wine Country, we highly recommend taking a tour if you are on a limited schedule. Our good friends at Magnum Tours have a fleet of high-quality vehicles to fit any budget. Also, they can make informed suggestions on what wineries to visit.

Back in the old days (the early '70's), we used to drive our VW's into Napa Valley and see how many wineries we could hit in an afternoon. In that era, most tastings were free and, although we bought plenty of good bottles of happiness to take home with us, we certainly drank more free wine than we should have.

You can't do that today and, let's be honest, it was pretty stupid to do it back then. But we were young and, well, we were stupid.

Of course it is equally unsafe to drink and drive now and you are even more likely to be arrested, so we strongly recommend letting a tour operator do the motoring for you.