Mill Creek Vineyards - The Mill Creek Tasting Room is located in the Dry Creek Valley, Sonoma County, just outside Healdsburg.

Mill Creek is open for tasting from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. seven days a week. Visit our Events page for a listing of upcoming events at our tasting room and nationwide.

The public area of Mill Creek Vineyards consist of the following: A tasting room / sales room, which is the familiar Mill Creek "Mill" building with the attached water wheel and adjacent mill pond. The lower picnic area which is an easily accessible area, located just behind the tasting room and adjacent to the millpond, equipped with glass-topped picnic tables sized for four, with shade umbrellas. The upper picnic area is a 3,000 square foot deck, which is equipped with 15, 6' redwood picnic tables with attached benches. This deck is located on the hillside above the tasting room and offers expansive views of the southern end of the Dry Creek Valley and the town of Healdsburg in the distance. Three local mountains and the mountain range on the eastern side of the Napa Valley are also to be enjoyed from this location. To reach this deck, a short hike is required up an easy hillside path. For those with disabilities, or those needing to deliver supplies to the deck, there is a dirt road to the site.

Customers are welcome to use either picnic area for personal picnicking. We do ask that you call and make arrangements in advance for groups larger than eight. This ensures that you will have a comfortable spot to picnic and that we will be adequately staffed. In accordance with county zoning, we do need to ask that no alcoholic beverages of any kind be brought in. Only wine purchased in our tasting room is permitted on our grounds.

Neither of our picnic areas is available for rental. We do not do weddings or corporate type events. We happily do wine related events when the purpose of the group is to learn more about wine, the wine industry, or Mill Creek Vineyards.

In addition to the picnic areas we do have a Self-Guided Native Plant Walk. This is covered in more detail in a section under that name. The tasting room itself is largely made from local redwood. A number of very large, impressive beams are made from one tree that originated on the Kreck family's home ranch. Photos highlight the milling of those beams.

Tours of the winery are not available. On rare occasions we do educational tours or in-winery barrel tastings, with members of our Mill Creek wine club; Sequoia Club.

Mill Creek Vineyards is a working farming operation and winery. As such there are certain inherent dangers to persons not trained for those jobs and we ask that customers stay within the greater tasting-room, picnic deck area unless escorted by winery personnel.

AND WE ARE OFF - - - AND PICKING!

Friday, August 29, 2008 we started harvest by picking the young-block Sauvignon Blanc. This was exactly one week later than the same block last year. With great numbers, Jeremy is a happy winemaker! Next came the old block of Sauvignon Blanc this morning. The Gewurztraminer will follow in a few days. For you lovers of Gewurztraminer – get the 2008 early, because it is another very short crop. Gewurztraminer is one of those grape varieties that is not reliable in set from year to year. Many varieties, most in fact, seem to be light this year. However, often these years light in fruit are the best in quality. 2008 is still a guesstimate, but so far, it looks like a real winner!

If you want to actually see harvest, come soon. The work in the winery will be persistent until at least Thanksgiving, but the grapes may all be picked by the first of October.

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