Tehama County

Tehama County runs the Sacramento River at its widest green stretch. Red Bluff sits at the valley’s upper end, where the river cuts past oak savannah and cattle country. Small vineyards hold ground east of Corning and out toward Manton — hot summer days, cold winter nights, barbera and zinfandel that taste like the hillside. Tasting rooms pour from ranch houses and tin-roofed barns. Lassen Road and Antelope Boulevard run the back-country routes. Black Butte Reservoir opens leashed shoreline walks. Pair a Tehama zinfandel with an afternoon at the water. The county pours quiet wine far off the I-5 corridor.