Three Seattle Wine Tasting Days, Stop by Stop

Updated November 08, 2026
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Three Seattle Wine Tasting Days, Stop by Stop

We've covered tasting Seattle without a car, which part of town suits your day and where to eat along the way. This post puts those pieces in order. Each of the three days below has named stops, start times and the one booking worth making.

Seattle needs a different kind of plan from wine country. Nobody here is driving a valley loop. Most rooms keep short hours, and many close early in the week, so the calendar decides more than the map does. That's why every day below starts with whichever room closes first.

The Simple Version

Three stops a day is plenty, and the third day has only three. These rooms pour seated flights, often for an hour. A fourth stop is how a relaxed afternoon turns into watching the clock.

Saturday: Georgetown, Then the SoDo Building

Saturday is the only day this route works in full. Cloudlift pours only on weekends, and every room in the Urbanworks building is open on Saturday afternoon. You'll need a car or a rideshare for the first two legs. After that, you park once.

12:00 — Cloudlift Cellars. Start here because Cloudlift closes first, at 5. Its owner, Tom Stangeland, is a furniture maker, and the winery grew out of his shop. The winery invites you to gather "amid the table saws and the drill press and the barrels of last year's wine aging." The wines are mostly Bordeaux-style blends. The tasting is $20, waived with a purchase, and there's nothing to book.

1:15 — House of Smith, Jet City. Four minutes away by car, and this is the room the day is built around. It has the highest composite score of any Seattle room in our listings. The building was a Dr. Pepper bottling plant, and the winery calls it the largest urban winery in the western United States. Olson Kundig designed both of its tasting rooms. Downstairs feels rustic and Northwest, while upstairs nods to the aviation industry with an early-'60s look. The windows face the main runways of Boeing Field, with Mount Rainier behind them.

Walk-ins are welcome, and only groups of eight or more need to call ahead. It's also lunch, of a kind. Outside food isn't allowed, but charcuterie plates and snacks are sold. For a sit-down meal, the where-to-eat post covers Airport Way, a few minutes from here.

3:30 — Sleight of Hand, then Structure. It's a seven-minute drive to SODO Urbanworks, at 3861 1st Avenue South, where you can leave the car for the rest of the day. Sleight of Hand is the booking. It runs 60-minute guided tastings at $20 a person, waived with a $50 purchase. Turntables spin vinyl from a collection of more than 3,000 albums, so this is the stop with a soundtrack.

Structure is a minute's walk down the hall and open until 7 on Saturdays. Its six tastes rotate every week, and it recommends a reservation "no matter the size of your group." Go hungry. Structure sells cheese and charcuterie for two, artichoke dip and a croissant sandwich, which makes it the natural place to finish.

The order follows the closing times. Cloudlift shuts at 5, House of Smith starts its last flights half an hour before it closes at 6, and the building pours until 7. Want a fourth room? Michael Florentino is two minutes from Sleight of Hand on foot and pours Italian- and Spanish-style wines until 7, with tapas.

Two dates change this Saturday. On December 5, the whole Urbanworks complex becomes a holiday market from noon to 5, with a local maker in every tasting room. It's fun, but it's busy. Long Shadows also says its room in the building opens this month, though it hasn't named a date. Check before you count on it.

Bainbridge: The Farm Wineries, by Car

Our car-free guide covers the walk-on version, three rooms on Winslow Way. This is the other Bainbridge day. You bring the car across and spend the middle of it on the farms.

Take a late-morning boat from Colman Dock. The crossing takes about 35 minutes. A car costs more than walking on, so check Washington State Ferries' fares before you go. And keep the car. Bainbridge Vineyards warns that Uber and Lyft "are not reliable on our little island."

12:00 — Rolling Bay Winery. Rolling Bay opens at noon on Saturdays and Sundays, so it leads. The tasting room is tiny, built by hand with river rock and an arched doorway and stacked to the ceiling with barrels. Some of its wines come from vines planted in 1979, which the winery counts among the oldest in Washington. Expect to stand shoulder to shoulder. That's part of the visit.

1:30 — Bainbridge Vineyards. It's a five-minute drive, and this is lunch. The winery encourages you to bring a picnic and sells cheese, salami, smoked salmon and other snacks. Its fall hours are Friday to Sunday, 1 to 5. One thing matters in November: every seat is outdoors. There are covered, heated spaces, but dress for the weather anyway.

This is the stop with the deepest roots. The vines date to 1977, on farmland that goes back to 1928 and was bought from Japanese-American farmer Akio Suyematsu. The winery grows every grape it uses on the island, and it still works the vineyard with draft horses. Smaller groups don't book. Reservations are for groups of six or more, and never for the same day.

3:30 — Winslow: Eagle Harbor, then Eleven. Drive back to Winslow and park once. Eagle Harbor's downtown room comes first because it closes at 6. It doesn't take reservations: "we have plenty of room so please, walk on in!" Eleven is a two-minute walk away and open until 8 every day. It's small enough that reservations aren't possible, outside food is welcome, and the back patio sits under a historic Japanese maple. Taste there until your boat.

Eagle Harbor's Winslow room is closed on Tuesdays, and Bainbridge Vineyards and Rolling Bay only pour Friday to Sunday. So this is a weekend day. Eleven also closes on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day. If your group is six or more, swap in Eleven's Day Road winery. It's four minutes from Bainbridge Vineyards, takes reservations for groups that size, and serves charcuterie.

You'll notice one name missing. Perennial Vintners has the highest score on the island in our listings, but its website wasn't loading when we checked, so we couldn't confirm its hours. If it's pouring when you go, it fits beside Rolling Bay.

Friday Evening: Pioneer Square on Foot

This one is for the after-work crowd, or for the evening after a Saturday elsewhere. All three rooms are within an eight-minute walk of each other, and Pioneer Square Station is a few blocks away. Nobody drives.

5:00 — Bacovino. Bacovino sits on Yesler Way, across from the ferry terminal, and is open until 8 from Tuesday to Sunday. Start here while there's still light over the waterfront. It takes reservations through a short form on its website, and groups of seven or more should get in touch first.

6:15 — Browne Family Vineyards. It's a six-minute walk to the 1906 Seller Building, designed by A. Warren Gould. Inside, it's all dark wood, antique brass lighting and leather seating. Book this one. The winery says "reservations are highly encouraged as space is limited," and it closes at 8. It serves seasonal light bites, so nobody starves before dinner. This winter it's also booking its patio for two, with blankets, s'mores and warm cocktails, at $75 for 90 minutes.

7:30 — Locus Wines. Seven minutes on foot, and this is dinner. Locus is open until 9 on Fridays and runs a real food menu: a Turkish meze board, cheese and charcuterie, lamb meatballs and pastry squares. Flights cost $18 to $20. The $20 "bartender roulette" is a curated flight "often containing off-the-menu selections." Locus sources from cooler-climate vineyards in the Yakima Valley and Naches Heights, so expect more acidity and less oak than at the other two.

There's a Tuesday version, too. Browne Family runs Wine & Pizza Tuesdays from 4 to 7: a bottle of its Tribute Red or Sauvignon Blanc and a pizza from Bar Sosta next door, $50 including tax and tip, no reservation needed. Bacovino opens Tuesdays, and so does Locus. Just avoid Mondays, when Browne Family and Bacovino are both closed.

Prefer West Seattle? Welcome Road and Viscon both score 8 or higher in our listings and keep evening hours. Neither website shows current winter hours, though, so call before you build a night around them.

How to Steal These Days

Start with whatever closes first. In Seattle, that's the rule that orders the day. Cloudlift shuts at 5, Eagle Harbor's Winslow room at 6, and Browne Family at 8.

Book one room, not all of them. That's Sleight of Hand, Browne Family and, if your group is six or more, Bainbridge Vineyards. Let everything else fill in around it.

Let the day pick the plan. The Georgetown route needs a weekend, and the Bainbridge farms pour Friday to Sunday. Pioneer Square works almost any evening except Monday.

Watch the holidays. The SoDo building's market fills it on December 5. Tinte, a short walk from House of Smith in Georgetown, has a fourth-quarter release weekend on November 14–15 that's closed to the public. Eleven closes on the three big holidays.

PourPlan Outings uses the same walk and drive times we quote here. Pin the room you've booked and let it order the rest.

The PourPlan Take

Seattle rewards short, tight days. The Saturday plan spends its afternoon in a former soda plant and a building full of tasting rooms. The ferry day trades the city for farms that were growing grapes before most of Washington's wineries existed. The Friday evening needs nothing more than comfortable shoes.

Pick the one that matches your calendar. Start with the Seattle listings, or with Best Wineries in Seattle if you're still choosing where to spend your booking.

Sources & Further Reading

  • PourPlan — Seattle listings, composite scores and walk and drive times, queried 2026-11-08 after the day's research update. 50 live tasting rooms. Drive times: Cloudlift to House of Smith Jet City 4 min; House of Smith to Sleight of Hand 7 min; Rolling Bay to Bainbridge Vineyards 5 min; Bainbridge Vineyards to Eleven's Day Road winery 4 min. Walk times: Sleight of Hand to Structure 1 min; Sleight of Hand to Michael Florentino 2 min; House of Smith to Tinte 8 min; Eagle Harbor (Winslow) to Eleven (Winslow) 2 min; Bacovino to Browne Family 6 min; Browne Family to Locus 7 min; Bacovino to Locus 8 min. House of Smith Jet City has the highest Seattle composite score (8.9); Perennial Vintners the highest on Bainbridge (8.4); Welcome Road (8.2) and Viscon (8.0) the highest in West Seattle.
  • PourPlan — Wine Tasting in Seattle Without a Car, Which Part of Seattle Should You Taste In? and Where to Eat on a Seattle Wine Tasting Day.
  • Cloudlift Cellars — Home, Our story and FAQs — Tastings Saturday and Sunday 12–5; $20 tasting fee waived with purchase; table saws, drill press and barrels; mostly Bordeaux-style blends.
  • House of Smith — Visit us — Jet City open Wednesday–Sunday 12–6; walk-ins welcome, groups of 8+ call; last flights 30 minutes before close; outside food not permitted, charcuterie sold; former Dr. Pepper bottling plant; two Olson Kundig-designed tasting rooms; Boeing Field runways and Mount Rainier.
  • Sleight of Hand Cellars — Visit, booking and events — SODO Thursday 2–6, Friday–Saturday 12–7, Sunday 12–5; 60-minute guided tasting, $20, waived with $50 purchase; over 3,000 albums; Holiday Makers Market Saturday December 5, 12–5.
  • Structure Cellars — Tasting room, reserve and food menu — Saturday 12–7; reservation recommended "no matter the size of your group"; six tastes rotating weekly.
  • Michael Florentino Cellars — Visit and About — SODO Saturday 1–7; Italian and Spanish wines; tapas.
  • Long Shadows — Visit and taste — Seattle hours listed as "Opening November 2026".
  • Tinte Cellars — Visit and release weekend — 4th Quarter Wine Release Weekend, November 14–15, "Closed to the public".
  • Rolling Bay Winery — Contact and About — Friday 4–7, Saturday–Sunday noon–5; river-rock tasting room stacked with barrels; grapes planted in 1979.
  • Bainbridge Vineyards — Tasting room, reserve a table and home — Fall 2026 hours Friday–Sunday 1–5; all seating outdoors, with covered, heated spaces; picnics encouraged; reservations for groups of 6+, not same day; vineyard since 1977, farm since 1928, bought from Akio Suyematsu; draft horses; Uber and Lyft "not reliable".
  • Eagle Harbor Wine Co — Visit — Downtown Bainbridge room, 400 Winslow Way E, 12–6 daily, closed Tuesday; no reservations at this location.
  • Eleven Winery — Visit — Winslow Way and Day Road both open daily 12–8; closed Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day; no reservations in Winslow; outside food welcome; Day Road takes reservations for groups of 6+.
  • Washington State Ferries — Seattle–Bainbridge schedule and fares — Crossing about 35 minutes.
  • Bacovino — Seattle waterfront tasting room and reservations — Tuesday–Sunday 1–8; across from the ferry terminal; groups of 7+ reach out.
  • Browne Family Vineyards — Seattle — Tuesday 12–7, Wednesday–Saturday 12–8, Sunday 12–7, closed Monday; "Reservations are highly encouraged as space is limited"; 1906 Seller Building by A. Warren Gould; seasonal light bites; winter patio for two, 90 min, $75; Wine & Pizza Tuesdays 4–7, $50 with Bar Sosta.
  • Locus Wines — Home, drink menu and food menu — Monday–Friday 3–9, Saturday 12–9, Sunday 12–7; flights $18–$20; Turkish meze board, lamb meatballs, pastry squares; Yakima Valley and Naches Heights fruit.
  • Welcome Road Winery — Home — Posts summer hours only. Viscon Cellars — Home.