This new wine region may literally be in your Bay Area backyard
Esther Mobley, Senior Wine Critic Fri, December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM PST Kelci Wihera, right, speaks with a customer in the Local Vines tasting room in Lafayette. (Don Feria/For…
Esther Mobley, Senior Wine Critic Fri, December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM PST Kelci Wihera, right, speaks with a customer in the Local Vines tasting room in Lafayette. (Don Feria/For…
LAFAYETTE, CALIFORNIA – I’ll confess that I lived in Lamorinda for years before I learn that we’re actually an official wine region. The Lamorinda AVA was recognized as a California…
Taste Lamorinda Wines and Ciders at the annual Moraga Pear and Wine Festival. A day of family fun, wine, music, and more. More details at Moraga Park and Rec @moragarec https://moraga.ca.us/424/2505/Pear-and-Wine-Festival…
Last week we tasted through the largest collection of Lamorinda AVA wines ever assembled, as far as I know. It is a remarkably diverse growing zone, from the cool and…
What a difference a year can make. In the span of just a few years we have gone from the notion that all California vintages are pretty much the same…
Retrieved September 18, 2025 Lamorinda is an American Viticultural Area (AVA) in the San Francisco Bay Area located due east of the Berkeley Hills in Contra Costa County encompassing the region around the cities of Lafayette, Moraga and Orinda. The name Lamorinda is a portmanteau from the…
By Vera Kochan Crane Terrace vines planted on the cave exterior Photos Vera Kochan Nestled on a private estate in Orinda’s Sleepy Hollow neighborhood, Crane Terrace Winery, a…
September 11, 2022 by Cori Solomon Shared from https://www.writtenpalette.com/discover-lamorinda-ava/ Many people are unaware that there is an AVA on the East Bay of San Francisco. The Lamorinda AVA, a hidden gem, is…
San Luis Obispo Wine Road Trips by Suzie Dundas May 4, 2022 San Francisco is a lively city full of quirky shops, international bars and restaurants, and massive museums and attractions like Alcatraz and the…