Windsor Town Green Tasting Rooms: Who Pours in Fall 2026
October 8, 2026
October 8, 2026
Who grows the wine you can walk to on the Windsor Town Green? This fall the answer is more local than it was in spring. Two new rooms opened in September, a longtime room turned into a private-only stop, and a lounge changed its lineup. Most of the walk-in rooms along Windsor Road are now run by people who farm or make the wine themselves. For one of the new arrivals, being close to its own vineyards and to the other rooms is the whole reason for the address.
The clearest view of why the block works comes from its newest tenant. Trecini Winery opened its tasting room at 9071 Windsor Road on Friday, Sept. 25, 2026, in the 1,100-square-foot space Bellacana used to occupy. It has 22 seats inside and some outdoor seating. Tastings are complimentary through Nov. 1.
Kyle and Christina Cameron bought the Trecini brand from Cathy Vicini in April 2025. The Vicini family had started it in 2000, and its old downtown Santa Rosa tasting room later closed. The Camerons farm about 305 acres of wine grapes across Sonoma, Napa and Mendocino counties. Since taking over, they have moved the brand to estate-grown fruit, redone the labels and hired winemaker Gianna Fugazi.
Christina Cameron gave The Press Democrat two reasons for choosing downtown Windsor. Most of the family's vineyards are in Windsor, and the block already had Tasting Notes, Mutt Lynch, Baldassari and Bienvenue nearby.
The production numbers explain why a grower would want a storefront at all. Trecini made a little over 35,000 gallons from the 2025 vintage but bottled only about 3,000 standard cases under its own label. The rest went to the bulk market. Direct sales to consumers account for about 10% of the business today, and Cameron said the tasting room is meant to raise that share. So a room on the Town Green is where grapes grown a few miles away can reach someone who lives a few blocks away, under the grower's own label.
Trecini fits a pattern that was already there. Look at who stands behind each walk-in room on Windsor Road and you mostly find a family name or a winemaker's name.
If you last walked the block a year ago, some of your stops have changed hands or changed format.
| Address | Business | What's different in fall 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| 9071 Windsor Road | Trecini Winery | Opened Sept. 25 in the former Bellacana space |
| 834 McClelland Drive | Bienvenue Vineyards Wine Lounge | Grand opening Sept. 5 |
| 9086 Windsor Road | Tasting Notes | Now presented as Oak Tree Winery's home |
| Downtown Windsor | J. Cage Cellars | Public tasting room closed; private tastings by request |
| 9000 Windsor Road | Spur Saloon | Opened in August in the former Windsor Brewery space |
The Tasting Notes change is the easiest one to miss. The Chamber's member directory still lists it as a collective with J. Cage and Tonti, but the lounge's own site now leads with Oak Tree. J. Cage Cellars opened a downtown tasting room in March 2022. It now says on its site that "our public tasting room has closed, but J. Cage Cellars is very much open." Tastings are now private sessions with winemaker and proprietor Roger Beery, offered on a limited basis by advance request. J. Cage has moved in the same direction as the rest of the block, putting its winemaker in front of guests, but by appointment rather than walk-in.
The new hours stretch later on weekends. Each winery posts its schedule on its own site, and several of those schedules are undated. Check them before you go.
The late anchor sits at the west end of the block. Eric Foster and Christina Keeney, who also own Grata Italian Eatery, opened Spur Saloon in August at 9000 Windsor Road, the former brewery across from the SMART station. Foster told Sonoma Magazine they wanted a place where locals could dance past 9 p.m., and that "people keep saying, 'This is what we needed.'" With Trecini, Tasting Notes and Bienvenue all posting 8 p.m. closings on Fridays and Saturdays, a weekend tasting on the Town Green can now run straight into dinner and music at Spur.
Going by the addresses and posted hours, here is one way to do a Friday afternoon on foot:
Bienvenue, at 834 McClelland Drive, is the one stop not on this stretch of Windsor Road. Its noon-to-8 p.m. Friday hours make it easy to add at either end of the walk.
The Windsor Chamber's Downtown Charity Wine Walk takes this same route through downtown merchants and the Town Green on Thursday, Nov. 19, from 5 to 8 p.m., rain or shine. The Chamber says more than 20 wineries and food vendors will take part, that ticket holders get a glass, a map and merchant offers, and that part of the proceeds goes to a local nonprofit. This will be the first walk since Trecini and Bienvenue opened.
Tickets go on sale Oct. 22, 2026, and the Chamber plans to sell 450. It hasn't yet posted the price or named the beneficiary. For comparison, the spring walk on April 30, 2026 sold 400 tickets at $55 each and benefited Windsor High School Project Grad. That makes November the larger of this year's two walks by 50 tickets. Anyone who wants to go should watch the Chamber's wine walk page on Oct. 22.
At Joe Henderson Real Estate, we pay attention to which businesses move onto the Town Green and why. A grower family opening a storefront a few miles from its own vines says a lot about downtown Windsor. If you'd like to talk about owning a home within walking distance of Windsor Road, or what this block means for your property, Let's Connect.
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