Words Of The Winery

East meets West Gold!

A Gold Medal and an award of 94 points in the East Meets West International Wine Competition is nothing to sneeze at considering the size and scope of the International competition, but sneeze they did and awarded our 2018 Orchard Station Sauvignon Blanc just that! Wines from 27 countries were represented and competing. Judges are…

Peggy Sue’s All-American Car Show and Cruise

June 13 to 15 | 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Join Moondance Cellars as we cruise the 4 days of festivities of Sonoma County’s largest classic car show, Peggy Sue’s All-American Cruise, from June 12-15 at A Place to Play Park, located at 2375 West Third Street (Northwest Santa Rosa). Visit our tent to check-out…

Moondance Cellars Returns Home

Press Release Moondance Cellars Returns Home “Pop-in” Tastings Feature Home-Grown Cool Santa Rosa, CA, January 23, 2015 Moondance Cellars, one of Sonoma Valley’s long-standing wineries and tasting rooms, has decided to move locations and head home.  Their bonded winery venue, located just south of Sebastopol, CA, houses the furnishings of multiple years of winning winemaking…

Awards Tasting

Join us February 14, 2015 in San Francisco.  We will be pouring at the SF Chronicle Wine Competition Awards Tasting.  Cheers!

Another Autumn Already!  September 2015

Tasting in the Wine Barn is working out! We hope that if you have not yet visited us at “home”, you will soon.  Bring a picnic.  Plan on spending a couple of hours tasting the wines, petting the horses and dogs (we have a new pup named Mike!), and for you car guys – inhaling…

If a bud breaks, is it broken?

It’s been a beautiful Spring for Winter.  Warm temps, plenty of sunshine, and now a rainy month in the forecast is just what the vineyard doctor ordered.  And No, bud break is not a broken bud.  Bud break is the beginning of the grape growing process.  This year it is early, which is okay. As…

Summer is for Sauvignon Blanc

Just for the fun of it. Give them a swirl. Compare the color. Compare the aromas, and then the flavors of the 2013 and the 2015 Russian River Valley Sauvignon Blancs How can a wine made from grapes of the same vineyards and crafted in the same methods appear, smell, and taste so different from…

96 Points and Double Gold !!North Coast Wine Challenge!

This challenge rates wines exclusively produced and bottled in select California North Coast AVAs including Lake, Mendocino, Napa, Sonoma, and Marin and Solano County.