Pizza not so much ran out of pretzels. The owner Phil and the wine maker Igor, busted a groove…read moretaking care of the crowd. Music by Untangled band was great. Great setting in the redwoods with the vines in front. The wines are very good to excellent. $$$ 30 to 65 depends on your taste. Got tickets at the artichoke festival. Very nice afternoon indeed.

August, 2021, I…read morespent a very pleasant Saturday afternoon wine tasting and listening to live music at the Pelican Ranch Winery on Bean Creek Road. The owner, Phil, went out of his way to be accommodating and found me a seat, even though I arrived without a prior reservation. Our server, Jesse, was very pleasant also. Tanya did an excellent job of outlining the history of the winery for those of us seated at the table. I'm no wine connoisseur; but to my uneducated palate the Pinotage seemed excellent. I plan to return another time to sample their other varietals. Parking can be a problem if you arrive late; so best plan to get there early... A pleasantly surprised local,

This is one of the best places in the SC mountains...unpretentious and very chill.Gerald the owner…read moreis a local legend,a real character.wines are solid and compared to most places,relatively cheap.We were very fortunate to come on a Sunday and be served by the wonderful Charlene..she made everything that much better with her warm and friendly personality....an extremely impressive lady in every way....cute to

This place was spot on for a celebration during the pandemic 2020! The service was impeccable,…read morehosts had a great attitude and the property is beautiful. It made our day. Tables were spread out so proper social distancing while you sip and enjoy. The drive to this place is beautiful (excludes the silly Bay Area traffic even during pandemic, you just have to live with it). Great wines! They allow you to bring in your own picnic/snacks/lunch as long as you clean up after yourself and pick up your trash which you have to take long with you. Not sure if it's a Covid thing but doesn't seem too much of an ask so we were happy to oblige. Definitely will visit again!

Storrs Winery produces some of my favorite wines. I love the Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc! And…read moreon my recent Santa Cruz getaway, I spontaneously dropped in to the downtown SC winery location. What a great experience! It was meant to be and I love when serendipity happens. Cute, small, intimate tasting room. Beautiful art work visible as you enter. Classy! And a sweet welcoming smile from Charmaine who was front and center behind the counter as we entered. Feeling good vibes already. I explained my long time enjoyment of the Storrs wines... being introduced to them when I began my love of Santa Cruz and my many trips there. The area restaurants, of course, carry the Storrs wines. Which is where I first encountered these great tasting wines. We selected a table in the front of the tasting room. A lovely, peaceful setting under trees with autumn red and gold leaves. Perfect! It was a weekday and no one else was tasting. Late September... such a perfect time to visit. Leisurely tasting. Awesome! Charmaine was well informed of everything about the wines and owners. Husband and wife met at UC Davis in the Oenology Department. The rest is history. I tasted the flagship, so- to-speak, Chardonnay and a fabulous Sauvignon Blanc which were so gooood. But also two, soon-to-be-released, reds which were beyond lovely. Tasting note descriptions included of the wines I tasted (photo). Storrs has also opened a much larger venue for tasting a few miles south of Santa Cruz. Outdoorsy! Next trip I will be checking that out for sure! In the meantime, I will be enjoying my wine purchases from this great visit! Thank you, Charmaine, for an unforgettable afternoon. And yes, a couple of bottles of wine left with me!:) Cheers!

We came to Storrs tasting room on a Thursday afternoon about 4:00 p.m. The hostess was alone in the…read moretasting room and was super friendly. She seated us out in the back and it was really cute. She told us about the birds and all the little nature things around that we should enjoy while we were there. This made it a nicer experience, as it was sort of industrial... Not in a bad way... in a old fashioned Urban redevelopment kind of way. It was interesting. She was very knowledgeable about the wine and the owners and how they had built their business and we enjoyed learning all of that. It was a very nice experience and story. We enjoyed the wines that we tasted, and when we left, the tasting room was full. It seems like many people know about this winery and frequent it often. I recommend a stop at Storrs. It's unique!

After trying and falling in love with a Muns pinot at the Santa Cruz Mountains grand tasting last…read moreyear, I knew I had to get up here to taste more of their wines! It's a small operation so they're only open a handful of weekends throughout the year, and primarily in the warmer months. I got on their mailing list so I could stay up to date with when they'd be hosting tastings - best way to know if and when they'll be open. My boyfriend and I came up on a Sunday in April, we made a reservation by emailing Mary, one of the owners. They do accept some same day callins if they can, but best to make a reservation if you haven't been up here as it is a windy road and you'll want to read the detailed instructions they send. We enjoyed our flight of 5 wines, 4 pintos and 1 syrah, as we enjoyed the unbelievable view from the top of the mountain. It was a nice celar day so we were able to see out to the ocean. They have picnic tables and you're welcome to bring your own food to enjoy with the wine. Ended up leaving with a bottle of pinot and syrah, excited to drink them soon!

I have been a member here for years, and the wine and the service are beyond!…read more Mary Mun actually comes to our house in San Jose to drop off our wine club selections! The Pinots are amazing, but, personally, it is the Syrah I prefer. They also have a sparkling Rose which sells out quickly. The wine tasting (appointment only) has the best views atop the highest winery in the Santa Cruz Mountains. A must!

Such an amazing first experience place! We came to do the wine tasting for $20 per person and met…read moreMichelle who was helping us. Amazing choice selection, great explanation of all wines and homey ambiance. Would Take for a date or special night. Small and comforting vibes. Bring some snacks!!

2013: it was a different time in America. Barack Obama was barely into his second term after…read morewinning re-election the previous November, and Hills and Bills were picking out drapes for their planned triumphal return to residency at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW (rumor had it that "Slick Willy" was also thinking about adding a convex mirror to the ceiling of the Lincoln bedroom, but maybe this was just "fake news"). How much things can change in six years. Except not atop Silver Mountain, that is. 2013 was just another year, one that blessedly was spared major earthquakes, wildfires, droughts, or damaging weather at harvest time. So, the grapes picked were good, and the winemaker was confident in his technique, and the results - while unknown at the time - would prove to be wonderful, indeed. Flash forward to November 2019. No Clintons in the White House, but there are great 2013 vintage wines available for tasting at the Silver Mountain Vineyards Westside tasting room. Estate Chardonnay from organic vines planted decades earlier using a highly prized Mount Eden clone; and a reserve Cabernet Sauvignon from a Grand Cru Classe vineyard, the fabled Bates Ranch, located on the Santa Clara County side of the Santa Cruz Mountains, close enough to Gilroy you'd swear there would be touches of garlic on the nose, but there isn't. Just rich, dark, brooding black fruit brimming over with brambles and flower scents and a minty touch of eucalyptus - not unlike Heitz Cellars' famous Martha's Vineyard Napa Valley Cabs, except at a mere fraction of the price (1/5th, more or less). Silver Mountain has a backstory like you wouldn't believe. Even I can't make this up. A WWII pilot who returns from combat saving America and much of the known world from fascism and Japanese imperial aggression who then makes a mint in the commodity futures trading business (which sounds scarier than flying an airplane in combat, if you ask me), and then promptly dumps a good amount of his personal fortune into rehabilitating an old apple orchard 2100 feet above the Pacific Ocean overlooking majestic Monterey Bay, high above the sleepy but quickly growing university/beach town of Santa Cruz. Years later, after rebuilding his home and winery following a major earthquake (1989's Loma Prieta), said vigneron eventually transfers some of the winemaking operations to an assistant, who was a Shakespearean actor from England who makes his own wines under the "Sonnet" label and who can quote from the Bard just as easily as he can craft a great bottle of single vineyard Pinot. At some point, this vigneron (let's call him "Jerold") decides to open a satellite tasting room on the Westside of Santa Cruz, as part of the so-called "Surf City Vintner's Collective," driven in part by the success of Randall Graham at Bonny Doon. That's where we end up, at the Westside tasting room, sipping 2013 vintages of organic estate Chardonnay and Bates Ranch Cabernet while Mark Knopfler songs echo from the stereo and a young toddler with his proud parents are quaffing Bottle Jack wines (the parents, not the toddler, you understand. We aren't all savages out here, you know!) across from the wine barrel table you're using to steady yourself as you finish off your 5th or 6th pour of Silver Mountain wine, and as someone in Washington, D.C. prepares to leak something to someone in the media about what some Ukrainian official promised to do for some sort of American shadow diplomatic fixer and go-between. Will a visit to Silver Mountain Vineyard's Westside tasting room solve all the world's problems? Will having a 2013 Bates Ranch Cabernet in your cellar for Thanksgiving help to drain the D.C. swamp? Or tear down walls? Or save American democracy? Maybe that's asking a lot of a single bottle of wine. Better buy a second bottle, then, just in case.

Wine tasting on a beautiful afternoon. We drove out to Windy Oaks in the hills above Corralitos and…read morecould not have been more pleased with what we found! What a lovely, lovely spot! The tasting area was nestled up against the vineyard and the tables were shaded by umbrellas. The area was graced with a few barn cats, too! We opted for a standard and a premium tasting so we could taste all the wines on offer. Most were typical Santa Cruz mountain type varietals, so familiar flavors. When we finished the tasting, they offered to take us to the top of the vineyard and show us the views and vines. What a treat!! We will absolutely come back here and tell others that it is worth a trip to Windy Oaks.

The patio tasting area is OK; about on par with other places like Nicholson etc. You can bring food…read morefor a picnic while tasting. But the draw here is that you can walk into the vineyard, up to the top of the ridge, and get a superb view, and picnic on the tables. My favorite wine from the standard tasting was the Night Owl GSM (Granache / Syrah / Mourvedre). They are part of the Santa Cruz Wine Passport locations.

Such a cute little winery! I typically come to this area to visit MJA, but decided to branch out…read moreand give Sones a try. The staff member who welcomed us was very sweet and helped move our table so that we could sit in the sun. The space is very small but charming (and dog-friendly), with little hedgehog decorations everywhere. We asked to do a tasting and were given five carafes to share amongst the three of us. The white wines were both excellent, but I particularly enjoyed the Zinfandel. Would return!

Staff was super friendly and inviting. Wine was ok but it was very cool how they serve it. Also…read morethey have 3 wines that they make small production of and when you buy them they give you refillable wine bottles. You can come back and buy more wine bring your bottle and just have it filled up. All in all great experience.

The wine tasting experience at integrity is unique because of their wines! The winemaker purchases…read moregrapes from many different AVA's and makes wine. So, tasting there is like a trip through CA wine. It's fun! And the wines really do reflect the terroir. I recommend a stop at Integrity.

Love Integrity Wine! Tried the Sauvignon Blanc at the Scott's Valley Wine and Art festival this…read moresummer and it was so good. So, of course, I looked up the Integrity tasting room and went and tried more Wine. They are delicious . Joined the club, but have yet to be able to attend a pick up party, but look forward to it.