Meadowcroft Wines — Restaurant in Sonoma

Back in February of this year, we brought a group of 11 people in for your Wine Blending Event – the occasion was my eldest daughter’s birthday (with Valentine's Day looking as well), and we knew it would be a great time – we are members and always have fun there.

Well, this event surpassed all our expectations – we started with some simple lessons on how to gather information with our senses, and put names to the things we smelled. We were introduced to a wheel that showed a wide variety of taste descriptions that are applied to wine – good, bad and ugly.

Then we got to work! We were given some containers (beakers and graduated cylinders), notepads and 4 wines from which we would concoct our blends: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot and Petit Verdot. While enjoying tasty snacks we earnestly tried some sample blends before we each finished choosing our own special blends of those four wines.

Then we bottled our masterpieces and applied labels, vowing to wait at least 3 months before tasting the “finished” products. The 1000ml batches also provided us each a mini 250ml bottle to accompany our “official” 750ml bottles.

Meadowcroft did a great job creating and executing this event – Elaine was unfailingly helpful – offering expert advice whenever we asked for it, and leaving us to do whatever we felt would make our blends special. It was a raucous, informative, fun-filled day and there’s no doubt it was a day (and some...

I’ve been a Meadowcroft wine club member for over 10 years, and the relationship is still going strong!

Tom Meadowcroft is a thoughtful, innovative winemaker who truly cares about both his craft and his community. His wines are uniquely French in style with a California twist—elegant, expressive, and unforgettable.

The tasting room, led by the amazing Elaine, is warm, welcoming, and fun—never stuffy or pretentious. It’s the perfect place to sip, learn, and relax. It's dog friendly too!!

I’ve also taken their wine blending classes in 2024 and 2025—an incredible, hands-on experience. We learned about the grapes, vineyards, winemaking, and the agricultural ecosystem. Then came the fun part: blending and bottling our own wines, complete with custom labels. We totally nerded out over tasting notes and treated the blending like a joyful science experiment!

The best part? Tasting those bottles a year later with friends—pure magic. The wines had aged beautifully, just like us. 😊

If you’re visiting wine country, don’t miss Meadowcroft. It’s truly...

Ok - this is one of those reviews where I'm giving a low review just because of this one element from the place. I literally just came from the place and had to write this down. The people working there were lovely and the wine was perfectly fine...but wow...their charcuterie box (which was the only food option in the whole place due to the pandemic) was perhaps the most over priced thing I've ever had at any establishment ever (and we made the mistake of ordering two of them). $18 for a seriously tiny box that the guy working there had described as "perfect for 2 people". Again, $18 for seriously 4 tiny cubes of cheese, 7 unwashed grapes, 4 blueberries, 2 tiny circles of salami, maybe 7 almonds, and 4 really bad crackers. All of it was pretty bad actually. It was enough food for a toddler. He told us that it was all "local" but I'm almost positive it was all from Costco. We were seriously laughing about it for an hour afterwards. So just beware of...