Sonoma County
No need to plan ahead — you can buy the whole picnic where you eat it. As of September 2026, 47 places in Sonoma County qualify.
47 places · last checked September 2026 · how we verify
| Winery | Area | Picnic policy | Own food | Must buy wine | Reservation | Fee | Dogs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cline Family Cellars | Carneros | Bring your own food | Yes | Yes | Not needed | Pondside Picnic: 2-bottle minimum for 1–8 guest… | Outside |
| Hamilton Family Wines | Kenwood | Bring your own food | Yes | Yes | Not needed | No fee; buy wine by the glass or bottle (Golden… | Outside |
| Larson Family Winery | Carneros | Bring your own food | Yes | Yes | Not needed | Forkage fee for outside food: $25 (1–5 guests),… | Yes |
| B.R. Cohn Winery | Glen Ellen | Buy food on site | No | Yes | Not needed | No fee for walk-in 'Grab & Go' picnics (buy win… | Yes |
| Bricoleur Vineyards | Russian River Valley | Buy food on site | No | Yes | — | Essentials Picnic $75 per person (groups 1–12),… | Yes |
| Gloria Ferrer Caves & Vineyards | Carneros | Buy food on site | No | Yes | Not needed | No fee; wine by the glass $12–$16 or bottle $34… | Outside |
| Gundlach Bundschu Winery | Sonoma | Buy food on site | No | Yes | Not needed | — | Yes |
| J. Rickards Winery | Alexander Valley | Buy food on site | — | Yes | Required | No picnic fee stated; tasting $20 (waived with… | Yes |
| Korbel Champagne Cellars | Russian River Valley | Buy food on site | No | Yes | Not needed | — | Outside |
| Lambert Bridge Winery | Dry Creek Valley | Buy food on site | No | Yes | Not needed | Picnic baskets $95 (charcuterie, for 2–4) or $2… | Yes |
| Landmark Vineyards (Kenwood Estate) | Kenwood | Buy food on site | No | Yes | Required | Bocce Ball & Wine Experience $60 per adult ($40… | Outside |
| Landmark Vineyards at Hop Kiln Estate | Russian River Valley | Buy food on site | No | Yes | Required | — | Outside |
| Ledson Winery & Vineyards | Kenwood | Buy food on site | No | Yes | Required | Reserved Table: $30/person + tax plus one bottl… | — |
| Notre Vue Estate Winery | Russian River Valley | Buy food on site | — | Yes | Required | Terrace Lunch with estate flight from $60/perso… | Yes |
| Russian River Vineyards | Russian River Valley | Buy food on site | — | Yes | Not needed | — | — |
| Viansa Winery & Marketplace | Carneros | Buy food on site | No | Yes | Not needed | No fee for grab-and-go lawn picnics (you buy wi… | — |
| VJB Vineyards & Cellars | Kenwood | Buy food on site | No | Yes | Not needed | — | — |
| Aesthete Wines | Dry Creek Valley | Reserved picnics | Yes | Yes | Required | — | Yes |
| Anaba Wines | Sonoma | Reserved picnics | No | Yes | Required | $125 per person, includes wine, salad and pizza | Outside |
| Benovia Winery | Santa Rosa | Reserved picnics | Yes | Yes | Required | No booking fee (card required); minimum one bot… | Yes |
| Breathless Sparkling Wines | Healdsburg | Reserved picnics | Yes | Yes | Required | From $19 (the lowest-priced bottle/add-on); add… | Yes |
| CAST Wines | Dry Creek Valley | Reserved picnics | Yes | Yes | Required | Vineyard Picnic starts at $200 and includes 3 b… | Yes |
| Chateau St. Jean Winery | Kenwood | Reserved picnics | No | Yes | Required | Estate Picnic $70 per person (2–6 guests, 120 m… | Yes |
| De La Montanya Winery | Healdsburg | Reserved picnics | Yes | Yes | Required | No booking fee; one-bottle minimum per person (… | Yes |
| Due Ruscelli Vineyards & Winery | Russian River Valley | Reserved picnics | Yes | Yes | Required | Picnic & Private Tasting $30/person; private oa… | — |
| Dutton Estate Winery | Russian River Valley | Reserved picnics | No | Yes | Required | Vineyard Garden Wine Tasting and Picnic Lunch $… | — |
| Kendall-Jackson Wine Estate & Gardens | Russian River Valley | Reserved picnics | Yes | Yes | Required | $40 per picnic table, refunded with purchase of… | — |
| La Crema Estate at Saralee's Vineyard | Russian River Valley | Reserved picnics | Yes | Yes | Required | $50 per table (discounted for members); waived… | — |
| Limerick Lane Cellars | Healdsburg | Reserved picnics | — | Yes | Required | $70 per person | — |
| MacRostie Winery Estate House | Healdsburg | Reserved picnics | No | Yes | Required | $75 per person ($25 for members) | Yes |
| Martorana Family Winery | Dry Creek Valley | Reserved picnics | — | Yes | Required | Priced per booking: cheese & salami board $35 (… | — |
| Matanzas Creek Winery | Bennett Valley | Reserved picnics | Yes | Yes | Required | Picnic & Bottle Service table $50 ($25 on weekd… | Yes |
| Michel-Schlumberger Wine Estate | Dry Creek Valley | Reserved picnics | Yes | Yes | Required | Estate Picnic requires a $25 per person minimum… | Yes |
| Mill Creek Vineyards & Winery | Dry Creek Valley | Reserved picnics | Yes | — | Required | — | — |
| Paradise Ridge Winery | Russian River Valley | Reserved picnics | No | Yes | Required | Styled picnic through partner Picnic Potential… | — |
| Parum Leo Winery and Vineyard | Petaluma | Reserved picnics | Yes | Yes | Required | $65 per person prepaid (Tock shows 'starting at… | — |
| Pellegrini Family Vineyards (Olivet Lane Winery) | Santa Rosa | Reserved picnics | Yes | Yes | Required | $30 table reservation (1–6 guests, up to 90 min… | Yes |
| Preston Farm & Winery | Dry Creek Valley | Reserved picnics | Yes | Yes | Required | No table fee; a wine purchase is required to pi… | No |
| Quivira Vineyards and Winery | Dry Creek Valley | Reserved picnics | Yes | — | Required | $50 per table for the Redwood Grove Picnic (fre… | Yes |
| Robert Young Estate Winery | Alexander Valley | Reserved picnics | Yes | Yes | Required | No picnic fee stated; buy a glass or bottle | — |
| Roche Winery (Sonoma Winery & Tasting Room) | Carneros | Reserved picnics | — | Yes | Required | Picnic in Our Vineyards: $57/person including l… | Outside |
| Rodney Strong Vineyards | Russian River Valley | Reserved picnics | No | Yes | Required | Custom quote through Picnic Potential (styled p… | Outside |
| Sbragia Family Vineyards | Dry Creek Valley | Reserved picnics | — | Yes | Required | Sbragia Family Picnic $20 per guest (sandwich,… | — |
| Scribe Winery | Sonoma | Reserved picnics | — | Yes | Required | Members only — requires Scribe Viticultural Soc… | — |
| Stone Edge Farm, La Maison | Sonoma | Reserved picnics | No | Yes | Required | $45 per person, includes admission, a glass of… | No |
| Trattore Farms and Winery | Geyserville | Reserved picnics | — | Yes | Required | From $125 per person, gratuity not included | Yes |
| DeLoach Vineyards | Santa Rosa | Reserved picnics | Yes | Yes | Required | $50 per table (up to 12 guests; tiered for more… | Yes |
Alexander Valley
A small family winery on Chianti Road in the far north of Alexander Valley near Cloverdale, known for down-to-earth hospitality and valley views. It arranges pre-ordered box lunches and saves you a shady picnic spot.
Nearest picnic food: Dry Creek Peach & Produce · 2.8 mi
Dry Creek Valley
A Dry Creek Valley winery known for its barrel-lined redwood tasting room and one of the valley's prettiest garden picnic areas. Non-members picnic with the winery's own baskets and a bottle; bringing outside food is reserved for club members.
Nearest picnic food: Dry Creek General Store · 0.6 mi
Dry Creek Valley
Aesthete now occupies the former Truett-Hurst creekside property on Dry Creek Road, keeping its signature red Adirondack chairs along the water and the farm animals. Reserve a creekside patio or a shaded picnic table for two hours; the winery also serves wood-fired pizza on weekends.
Nearest picnic food: Dry Creek Peach & Produce · 1.6 mi
Healdsburg
A sisters-owned sparkling-wine house a short walk from Healdsburg Plaza, with a tasting room built from shipping containers and a tiered garden patio. Its reservable 'Bottle Service' (Picnic on the Hill) gives up to six guests a garden spot to share a bottle with a self-contained picnic they bring or a culinary add-on.
Nearest picnic food: Healdsburg Farmers Market · 0.2 mi
Dry Creek Valley
A modern Dry Creek winery with a bookable Vineyard Picnic: you bring lunch and the winery supplies three bottles, glasses and ice. It's adults-only but dog-friendly.
Nearest picnic food: Dry Creek Peach & Produce · 1.2 mi
Healdsburg
A family-run boutique winery just off Westside Road that is open daily and welcomes walk-ins. Its Backyard Picnic + Bottle Service lets you bring your own food and settle into the garden with a bottle (one-bottle minimum per person).
Nearest picnic food: Quail & Condor · 1.9 mi
Russian River Valley
A food-focused family winery in Windsor with gardens and room for kids to run. You can't bring outside food, but its Essentials Picnic comes in a wicker basket with a red wagon to wheel it across the estate.
Nearest picnic food: Santa Rosa Original Certified Farmers Market · 5.0 mi
Russian River Valley
The historic sparkling-wine house on the road to Guerneville, with free cellar tours and a popular deli. It's a classic lunch stop, but you eat from the deli: outside food and picnicking aren't allowed.
Nearest picnic food: Mom's Apple Pie · 6.6 mi
Russian River Valley
The landmark stone hop kiln on Westside Road, long known as Hop Kiln and later HKG Estate, is now run by Landmark Vineyards. Picnicking with your own food isn't allowed for the public, but you can buy cheese and charcuterie to go with an outdoor tasting by the pond.
Landmark Vineyards at Hop Kiln Estate
Nearest picnic food: Quail & Condor · 4.9 mi
Russian River Valley
A large estate in the hills north of Windsor (home of the Notre Vue and Balverne labels) with a view terrace and a lakeside pavilion. It serves reservable terrace lunches and charcuterie rather than advertising bring-your-own picnics.
Nearest picnic food: Quail & Condor · 3.3 mi
Russian River Valley
A winery-with-kitchen on the road into Forestville where you can have lunch and wine outdoors on a shaded estate. The site sells its own food; it doesn't say whether you can bring yours.
Nearest picnic food: Mom's Apple Pie · 1.2 mi
Russian River Valley
A boutique family winery making Italian varieties on Limerick Lane near Healdsburg. Its $30 Picnic & Private Tasting lets you bring or have lunch delivered to tables under the oaks beside the vines.
Due Ruscelli Vineyards & Winery
Nearest picnic food: Quail & Condor · 2.5 mi
Kenwood
A family-owned Rhône-focused winery (Grenache is the star) on the former Paradise Ridge Kenwood site, built around drop-in glasses and bottles under the olive trees. It explicitly welcomes outside picnic food, kids and dogs outdoors — one of the most relaxed picnic stops on Hwy 12.
Nearest picnic food: Glen Ellen Village Market · 4.2 mi
Glen Ellen
Founded by Doobie Brothers manager Bruce Cohn and famous for its olive groves and rock-and-roll history, B.R. Cohn is now part of Adair Family Wines. It welcomes walk-in 'grab and go' picnics with wine and snacks bought on site, but outside food isn't allowed.
Nearest picnic food: Glen Ellen Village Market · 1.6 mi
Sonoma
One of California's oldest wineries (founded 1858), still run by the founding family, with a relaxed, music-loving vibe and a big estate on the east edge of town. Picnicking is on the winery's terms: it sells picnic baskets and snacks but no longer allows outside food.
Nearest picnic food: Sonoma's Best · 1.2 mi
Kenwood
A Chardonnay and Pinot Noir house at the foot of Sugarloaf Ridge whose lawn, fountain courtyard and bocce court make it feel like a picnic spot — but for non-members the food has to come from the winery's own cheese-and-charcuterie selection.
Landmark Vineyards (Kenwood Estate)
Nearest picnic food: Glen Ellen Village Market · 4.8 mi
Kenwood
Steve Ledson's 16,000-square-foot 'Castle' is one of the most photographed stops on Hwy 12, with a gourmet marketplace and oak-shaded grounds. Picnic-style visits run through a reserved no-host table with a bottle, using food from the marketplace.
Nearest picnic food: Glen Ellen Village Market · 6.4 mi
Kenwood
A family-run Italian marketplace-winery in Kenwood where the deli, pizza oven and gelato counter are half the draw. It's a great buy-your-lunch stop, but outside food isn't allowed.
Nearest picnic food: Glen Ellen Village Market · 4.0 mi
Carneros
A relaxed family winery on the Carneros stretch of Hwy 121, and one of the easiest places in Sonoma Valley to bring your own picnic: grab a pondside table (book ahead or walk in), buy two bottles and settle in. Kids, dogs and big groups are all welcome.
Nearest picnic food: Angelo's Wine Country Deli · 1.2 mi
Carneros
An unpretentious, organic family winery on a former rodeo ranch in Carneros, known as one of the most kid- and dog-friendly stops in the valley. You can bring your own food for a modest per-group forkage fee and settle in with bocce, cornhole and vineyard views.
Nearest picnic food: Angelo's Wine Country Deli · 0.8 mi
Carneros
A landmark sparkling-wine house on Hwy 121 with a terrace view across Carneros. There's no bring-your-own option, but its seasonal walk-in Al Fresco service in the oak grove works as a buy-on-site picnic, and it's the one time kids and dogs can come.
Gloria Ferrer Caves & Vineyards
Nearest picnic food: Angelo's Wine Country Deli · 0.8 mi
Carneros
A hilltop Italian-villa winery at the southern gateway to Sonoma Valley with some of the widest views in Carneros. You can't bring food, but you can buy bottles and snacks in its marketplace and picnic on the upper lawn.
Nearest picnic food: Angelo's Wine Country Deli · 1.5 mi
Carneros
A family Carneros producer with a flagship winery in the Tipperary Vineyards south of town and a patio tasting room on the Plaza. Its bookable 'Picnic in Our Vineyards' sets you up on a private lawn among the vines with a catered lunch.
Roche Winery (Sonoma Winery & Tasting Room)
Nearest picnic food: Angelo's Wine Country Deli · 1.4 mi
Santa Rosa
A small, family-owned Pinot Noir and Chardonnay winery on Hartman Road in Santa Rosa. Besides seated tastings, it books out two picnic tables behind the tasting room: bring a packed lunch and buy one bottle for every two guests.
Nearest picnic food: Santa Rosa Original Certified Farmers Market · 2.9 mi
Bennett Valley
A Bennett Valley estate famous for its lavender gardens and Sauvignon Blanc and Merlot. It rents picnic tables for two-hour stays where you bring your own food, buy bottles and wander the lavender.
Nearest picnic food: Criminal Cafe & Bakery · 5.8 mi
Santa Rosa
The Pellegrini family's Olivet Lane winery west of Santa Rosa, making estate Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Reserve a shaded table in its heritage olive grove for $30, bring your own lunch and buy a bottle for every two adults.
Pellegrini Family Vineyards (Olivet Lane Winery)
Nearest picnic food: Mom's Apple Pie · 3.0 mi
Santa Rosa
Boisset's Russian River Valley Pinot Noir and Chardonnay estate on Olivet Road, with an organic and biodynamic farm and gardens. Its Picnic Reservation holds an outdoor table for up to 12 for $50; the fee covers only the table, so you bring the food, and it's refunded when you buy three bottles.
Nearest picnic food: Mom's Apple Pie · 2.6 mi
Petaluma
A small-batch winery on Kastania Road at the southern end of Petaluma, open Friday to Sunday by appointment. Besides tastings it rents a private picnic area; the Tock booking has you bring your own food and buy wine on arrival.
Nearest picnic food: Della Fattoria · 2.5 mi
