Sonoma County Self-Guided Wine Tour: GPS Audio Driving Guide

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2 to 6 hours (approximately)
Offered in: English

Drive Sonoma County yourself, with a GPS audio guide that plays automatically as you go. Your booking unlocks the whole region in the free Wine Trails app: pick your date and starting point — Sonoma Plaza, Healdsburg, Santa Rosa or Sebastopol — choose the cellar doors you want from 76 across the county, and the app builds your personal route with turn-by-turn narration. 96 narrated stories cover the county's people and places: as you pass the Sonoma Plaza you'll hear how a flamboyant Hungarian who called himself Count Agoston Haraszthy founded Buena Vista east of the plaza in 1857, then returned from Europe with over 100,000 cuttings of 300 grape varieties and seeded an entire industry. No group, no schedule, no guide — pause for a long lunch in Healdsburg, replay anything, and the audio keeps working when the signal drops. You'll need a car and a designated driver; tastings are booked and paid directly with the wineries.

What's Included

Email and in-app chat support
Buy once, no expiry - use it on this trip and every future trip
Complete offline download - audio, maps and route stored on your phone
Trip planner to build, reorder and save your own route across the four corridors
72 mapped Sonoma County cellar doors with ratings and whether a booking is required
GPS-triggered audio driving tour of Sonoma County - stories play automatically at each location
One purchase covers everyone in the vehicle

Meeting and pickup

Meeting point
You can choose from multiple locations at checkout.
End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Itinerary

Duration: 2 to 6 hours (approximately)
  • 1
    Buena Vista Winery

    California's first commercial winery, founded in 1857 by the Hungarian emigre Agoston Haraszthy, who imported 300 European grape varieties and built stone cellars into the hillside east of Sonoma Plaza.

    1 hour • Admission ticket free
  • 2
    Gundlach Bundschu Winery

    Six generations of the Bundschu family have farmed this Rhinefarm estate since Jacob Gundlach planted it in 1858, making it the oldest family-run winery in California.

    1 hour • Admission ticket free
  • 3
    Chateau St. Jean

    A 1920s country house at the foot of Sugarloaf Ridge in Kenwood, where winemaker Richard Arrowood pioneered single-vineyard Chardonnay in California in the 1970s.

    1 hour • Admission ticket free
  • 4

    Tom Jordan built this Alexander Valley chateau in 1972 to make Cabernet and Chardonnay in the Bordeaux manner, and the estate still releases only those two wines.

    1 hour • Admission ticket free
  • 5

    Samuele Sebastiani arrived from Tuscany in 1895, worked the local quarries, and bought his first cellar in 1904; the family name has been on Sonoma wine ever since.

    1 hour • Admission ticket free
  • 6
    Korbel Champagne Cellars

    Three Bohemian brothers built this Russian River estate in the 1880s on the site of their old logging camp, and it has made bottle-fermented sparkling wine there ever since.

    1 hour • Admission ticket free

Additional info

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Specialized infant seats are available
  • Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Supplied by Wine Trails

Tags

Day Trips
Wine Tastings
Bus Tours
Private and Luxury
Private Sightseeing Tours
Audio Guides
Wine Tours
Car Tours
Food & Drink
Spring Break
Short term availability

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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