Hartford Family Winery Tasting Room & Salon — Attraction in Healdsburg

In full disclosure one’s taste in wine varies greatly, I get it - but for someone who’s visited +200 wineries in the state and is a bit of a pinot noir connoisseur (& no not a snob) this place was run like a corporate office yet is family owned. Case in point I tried 3 of their ‘21 pours all were very ‘bright’ acidic, tannic but lacking fruit - pretty close to undrinkable not good regardless of rating posted, when I commented after being asked - feedback was sorry…the end - not oh let’s open up another bottle from a different region and try a to align preferences etc feedback was “my manager won’t let me open up any new bottles”, who btw never bothered to engage with me directly nor was any form of goodwill offered except “oh I hope you come back and like it better the next time” - wow how obtuse - I was polite, paid and left - there are too many other quality wineries and tasting experiences to waste time...

After many fantastic tastings at the winery over the years, this was our first experience at the Healdsburg tasting room...and it will be our last. Regardless of the quality of the wine (and it was good), the staff was cold and clearly unengaged. It felt like they were doing us a favor and really didn’t want to spend any time with us. We cut short the tasting and left without buying anything because of this. May consider visiting the winery again in the future, but with the number of producers of quality zin and Pinot in the area, we can skip Hartford and not even...

Jeremy absolutely made our experience complete! Not only was the wine delicious and the tasting experience wonderful, but he took a personal interest in our trip and wrote out a detailed itinerary for us to go see Bodega Bay. It was one of the highlights of our trips and we wouldn't have thought of it had it not been for Jeremy's kindness and...