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Open: 10:00am-4:30pm
Appt required? No
Last barlinwine.com visit: 2007
Directions:
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Tasting:
The Landmark tasting room is nestled in between the busier sections (downtown Sonoma and Santa Rosa of an already less-busy-than-Napa Sonoma Valley makes it a laid back tasting experience. When we visited, there was just one person working the tasting room and we were the only people there for almost our entire tasting.
The tasting is straightforward, and the only knock is that they sell out of their wines quite quickly! With only a few to taste, it's a bummer when their top Pinot Noir isn't available to try. Landmark makes Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, a single Syrah (the Steel Plow Syrah), and sometimes a Grenache. The Pinot Noirs are particularly good. We have picnicked and "bocce'd" at Landmark, and they are very welcoming and accommodating to visitors. The picnic area is tucked in among the vines behind the tasting room, complete with the obligatory metal animal sculpture (at this location it was a rooster).
This is a good picnic stop on your way to or from downtown Sonoma (with a Sonoma Cheese Factory sandwich, perhaps?). Go early in the year so you can still get some Grand Detour in 750ml bottles!
The tasting is straightforward, and the only knock is that they sell out of their wines quite quickly! With only a few to taste, it's a bummer when their top Pinot Noir isn't available to try. Landmark makes Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, a single Syrah (the Steel Plow Syrah), and sometimes a Grenache. The Pinot Noirs are particularly good. We have picnicked and "bocce'd" at Landmark, and they are very welcoming and accommodating to visitors. The picnic area is tucked in among the vines behind the tasting room, complete with the obligatory metal animal sculpture (at this location it was a rooster).
This is a good picnic stop on your way to or from downtown Sonoma (with a Sonoma Cheese Factory sandwich, perhaps?). Go early in the year so you can still get some Grand Detour in 750ml bottles!
Recommended wine: The Grand Detour Pinot Noir was one of the better Pinots I tasted on my last trip. Unfortunately, both times I have been to the winery, they have been sold out of this in anything but the 1.5L format.
Ratings (out of 5):
 WINE | 4.00 |  TASTING ROOM | 4.25 |
 ATMOSPHERE | 4.50 |  VALUE | 4.25 |
 OVERALL | 4.25 | ||
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