Birichino Tasting Room Santa Cruz

Details with a custom made pewter bar and tin type ceiling birichino tells you right away that it s no ordinary tasting toom.

Birichino tasting room santa cruz.

Their distinctive wine is made from carefully tended vineyards dating back to the 19th and early 20th centuries as well as a few from the late disco era. 782 likes 18 talking about this 280 were here. Located in the heart of downtown santa cruz and a few minutes from the santa cruz beach boardwalk. No one told me that persimmons were extraterrestrial.

Housed in a former adult themed toy shop that now hosts living carnivorous plants and more velvet pillows than your local crate barrel it is also a stone s throw from a greek orthodox church a public library and the beautifully landscaped santa cruz city hall where you can find free three hour parking on weekends. Congratulations to alex krause and john locke. Once you visit birchino s tasting room on church street in downtown santa cruz you will know why. 204 church st santa cruz now open th mon.

Five minutes to the beach. As of july 3 we are now open fridays saturdays and sundays for socially distanced tastings outside on our sidewalk patio. Alex krause and john locke founded birichino in santa cruz in 2008. Drawing on a combined four decades making wine in california france italy and beyond they are focused on attaining the perfect balance of perfume poise and puckishness.

Our space is quite small ideal for corporate events like team building which include tasting our wines and for a social mixer type of event but it s not really set up for a long formal conference with whiteboards and speakers or flipcharts and there is limited seating around the bar. At long last the tasting room is now open still a work in progress mind you but open to help nudge us toward the holidays.