Monthly Behind the Cellar Doors Winery Tour, Barrel Tasting - Wine Club Members Only
Exclusive behind the scenes tour at our winery with owner and winemaker, barrel taste, learn about how we make our special winesAbout this experience
Enjoy a private behind the scenes tour of our winemaking production facilities with our owner and winemaker, Côme Laguë. Learn about our history, winemaking journey, vineyards with 9 varietals and the technologies and techniques we use to make our special small batch wines. Experience barrel tasting of a few of our wines undergoing maturation. Learn about whatever is currently in "the cycle" - pruning, growing, testing, harvesting, fermenting, pressing, maturing. Take in the beautiful Sierra and Central Valley views from up top of our estate at our winery. Afterwards head down to our tasting room and enjoy additional wine tasting and the opportunity to purchase our latest release wines. This unique experience is offered once a month to our wine club members only. Wine club members may also invite 2 friends. Reservations required, please include all people in your party in the reservation. Since this is such a limited capacity event and with high demand, please cancel only with 48 hours notice by calling 209-245-3388. This is a walking/standing tour only lasting about an hour, please wear appropriate footwear.
Your Host
Hosted by our owner and winemaker Côme Laguë or winemaker Antonia de Heinrich. We have owned the La Mesa Vineyards estate since 2011, first established in 2000. Over the past 10 years we have expanded to 11 acres of vineyards with 9 varietals, built out our wine production facilities and opened our brand new modern tasting room in November 2020. Côme has been making wine since 2011. Antonia, La Mesa's winemaker consultant, has spent the past two decades working in top wineries around the world – Chateau Montelena, Kim Crawford, Hogue, Ravenswood and Banshee. She has been working with us at La Mesa since 2019 and has helped us expand to producing 18 wines, scaling up our production facilities and perfecting wine recipes and innovative techniques.