Mendocino County

Mendocino County stretches from Hopland’s oak savannah up through Anderson Valley’s redwood-shadowed floor. Highway 128 cuts forty miles of it — pinot noir on the valley benches, zinfandel on the higher Yorkville slopes, and Alsatian whites where the fog holds longest near Navarro. Tasting rooms sit on the road, patios under fir, water bowls waiting before you ask. Hendy Woods and Paul M. Dimmick campgrounds open leashed redwood loops a mile from a tasting bar. Pair an Anderson Valley pinot with a river walk at Navarro. Mendocino is the North Coast’s quietest wine country, and the most dog-generous stretch of the 128.