Pigs & Pinot
Price$$$ event packages
Chef Charlie Palmer's pork-and-Pinot weekend at Appellation Healdsburg. Top Pinot producers, real chef energy.
Why go: Pinot's acidity cuts pork fat the way a good argument cuts noise.
Your Sonoma Chef cheat sheet for Healdsburg, Sebastopol, Windsor, Santa Rosa, Cloverdale, Guerneville, Point Reyes, and northern Sonoma County.
Price is per person for a typical meal, or the posted ticket price for special dinners. Some cards show both.
Gold badge = don't miss it. 90 days gives you enough runway to plan ahead.
Chef Charlie Palmer's pork-and-Pinot weekend at Appellation Healdsburg. Top Pinot producers, real chef energy.
Three days of cheese. In its 20th year. Cheese Crawl at The Barlow Saturday, Marketplace at the Fairgrounds Sunday.
Friday pre-party, Saturday parade, full weekend festival in West County apple country. The Gravenstein apple made this town.
25+ wineries per day, celebrity chefs, live music. Friday night Twilight Welcome Party kicks off with Chef Kevin O'Connor open-fire cooking. Three full days.
Blossoms, bees, and barnyard babies. Two days, dozens of farms. Free registration required.
Four days: farmers, growers, winemakers, chefs, globally recognized wines. Tastings, vineyard tours, chef demos, wine seminars, winemaker dinners. The big late-spring food-and-wine event.
The annual triple IPA pilgrimage. On tap at both pubs for two weeks.
Runs through mid-June — pulls in early summer events, coastal stops, and farmers markets at full stride.
The entire month of April. Complimentary tastings, 10% off wine.
Forty guests. Five Alexander Valley winemakers. Four courses.
Vineyard walk, multi-course lunch, double wine pairings. Thirty guests max.
Creamery, oyster farm, meadery, veggie farm, locavore lunch. Fog, salt air, something briny.
Hosted cheeseboard, farm talk, seasonal chef's lunch at The Fork overlooking Tomales Bay.
Many breweries and food vendors. Good for groups.
Spring through early summer: asparagus, strawberries, snap peas, then early stone fruit and the first heirloom tomatoes by June.
One of the stronger northern Sonoma County markets once it hits its stride in late spring. Local growers, cheese, bread, cut flowers, prepared food vendors.
Tock aggregates chef-driven dinners, winery experiences, and special tastings across Sonoma County. Intimate pop-ups and farm dinners drop with short lead times and sell fast.
The Russian River corridor earns more attention in late spring. Farmhouse Inn in Forestville for the polished dinner. Boon Eat + Drink in Guerneville for something more casual and farm-sourced. Redwoods make everything taste better.
Weekend 1 (March 20–22): Pigs & Pinot + California Artisan Cheese Festival. Friday Healdsburg, Saturday Cheese Crawl, Sunday Marketplace. A very full, very good 72 hours.
Weekend 2 (April 24–26): Apple Blossom Festival in Sebastopol + Passport to Dry Creek Valley. Community orchard energy one day, Zinfandel country the next.
Weekend 3 (May 2–3): Farm Trails Spring Tour countywide. Walk the farms Saturday. Sebastopol Farmers Market Sunday as the debrief.
Weekend 4 (May 14–17): Healdsburg Wine & Food Experience. By mid-May the spring produce season is fully awake. The menus and pairings will show it.
Chef culture, creamery culture, craft beer, community orchards, farm access, and early summer in wine country — rooted in 90 days of real seasonal eating.
Going to 90 days adds early summer — farmers markets hitting full stride, the Healdsburg Wine & Food Experience in May, and the Russian River corridor earning a weekend drive. The seasonal produce calendar shifts: asparagus gives way to strawberries, then stone fruit, then the first heirloom tomatoes of the year.
Point Reyes and West Marin events stretch outside Sonoma County proper but belong here. The fog, the coast, the estuary — one ecosystem.
sonomacounty.com/events · wineroad.com/events · exploretock.com · farmtrails.org/events · thesonomalocal.com · drycreekvalley.org · alexandervalley.org · artisancheesefestival.com · russianriverbrewing.com · appleblossomfest.com · healdsburgwineandfood.com · visitmarin.org · bohemian.com · sebastopolfarmersmarket.org
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