J Vineyards & Winery
Winery · Sonoma County
11447 Old Redwood Hwy, Healdsburg, CA 95448
Highlights
Sparkling and Pinot Noir winery with acclaimed food pairings
Sparkling and Pinot Noir winery with acclaimed food pairings
"A well-regarded winery in the Healdsburg area offering tastings and a chance to experience Sonoma County’s celebrated wine culture." - Lauren Dana Ellman Lauren Dana Ellman Lauren Dana Ellman is a New York-based writer and editor who specializes in travel, lifestyle, food, and shopping content. Travel + Leisure Editorial Guidelines
"The first winery to establish an educational wine and culinary program in Sonoma County, J Vineyards continues to raise the bar for wine country hospitality. The luxurious Bubble Room experience ($125, available Thursday to Sunday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.), includes a five-course meal with wine pairings in a restaurant-like setting. Executive chef Carl Shelton creates unlikely combinations of ingredients — think black cod and rock shrimp with popcorn — to go with both bubbly and still wines." - Jess Lander
"A Sonoma-based hospitality site that hosted a multi-week visiting chef residency, offering visiting cooks a staged, immersive opportunity to develop and present menus outside their home kitchens." - Morgan Goldberg
"Uncork joy with J. As one of Sonoma’s premier destination wineries, J Vineyards & Wineries crafts irresistibly elegant sparkling and varietal wines in the heart of the Russian River Valley."
"A winery venue that hosts a chef-in-residence program designed to center chefs of color by pairing their cuisine with wines in a fine-dining, tasting-room setting. The program commissions multi-course pairing menus, cheese pairings, and chef’s-table dinners and works closely with the venue’s kitchen and staff so visiting chefs can present food they want to cook while the staff learns new ingredients and techniques. Organizers describe the series as intentionally political and values-driven — conceived in part to respond to issues such as AAPI hate — and see it as a platform for cultural exchange and challenging expectations about what belongs in a wine-pairing context, even as participants acknowledge the risk of residencies becoming performative rather than structurally transformative." - Jaya Saxena
