We've already covered wine tasting in Seattle without a car. The answer there was to pick a pocket and walk it. This post is about choosing the pocket.
That choice matters more here than in any other region we cover. Walla Walla and Woodinville are wine towns. Seattle is a city that happens to have nearly fifty tasting rooms. They're scattered across its neighborhoods, two islands and the Eastside. Most of them are one room on a busy street, not a district you can stroll. So the question isn't which wine district to visit. It's what kind of day you want, and which part of town delivers it.
The Simple Version
- SoDo's Urbanworks building is the only true crawl: six rooms pouring under one roof, with Latta a minute's walk away. Best Thursday through Sunday.
- Georgetown is three very different rooms a short drive farther south, including a winery in an old Dr Pepper bottling plant.
- Pioneer Square is the evening pocket. Its three rooms stay open later than SoDo's, and Locus serves a full food menu.
- West Seattle is a weeknight walk along California Avenue, with rooms that open late in the afternoon.
- The north end gives you one room per neighborhood. Treat each as the wine stop on a night out, not a tour.
- Bainbridge is two trips: Winslow on foot from the ferry, or the island's farm wineries with a car.
- The Eastside has polished rooms in Bellevue and Redmond. And Woodinville is next door.
SoDo: The One Real Crawl
If you want to taste at several wineries without moving the car, this is the answer. SODO Urbanworks, at 3861 1st Avenue South, holds Cairdeas, Michael Florentino, Patterson, Rôtie, Sleight of Hand and Structure. Latta pours a minute's walk up the block. A seventh room is on the way: Long Shadows says its Seattle tasting room opens in November 2026.
The catch is the calendar. Most of these rooms close early in the week. On a Tuesday, every door is locked. On Wednesday, only Cairdeas is pouring. Saturday is the sweet spot. Every room is pouring between 1 and 6. Sunday works too, though most close by 5. On a Thursday, they're all open from 3 to 6, which makes a decent after-work plan if you can get away early.
Each room has its own personality, so mix them. Sleight of Hand pours to vinyl records and live music. Structure recommends a reservation "no matter the size of your group" and rotates its six tastes every week. Patterson is the easy walk-in, with a happy hour on Thursdays and Fridays and $10 cheese or meat plates. Cairdeas has a full outdoor patio and sells snack packs for kids, which helps if the family came along. Rôtie's patio takes leashed dogs. Book the one room you care about most and let the rest fall into place.
Two smaller SoDo addresses sit a few minutes' drive north. EFESTE is next to T-Mobile Park and open every day from noon to 7, with special hours on game days. Its $25 tasting is waived when you buy two bottles. Spruce Hill pours inside its working production space on 4th Avenue South on Saturday afternoons, or by appointment. T2 Cellar shares the suite, and its website lists two different schedules, so email before you go.
Georgetown: Three Rooms Worth the Short Drive
A few minutes' drive south of the Urbanworks building, Georgetown feels like a different trip. Its three rooms aren't a crawl. Each one earns the drive.
House of Smith's Jet City room is the showpiece. It occupies a former Dr Pepper bottling plant beside Boeing Field. The views take in the main runways and Mount Rainier, and its two tasting rooms were designed by Olson Kundig. The winery calls it the largest urban winery in the western United States. Walk-ins are welcome and reservations are optional, and it's open Wednesday through Sunday from noon to 6.
Tinte Cellars is an eight-minute walk away on Airport Way. It serves a seasonal food menu and stays open until 8, so it's the right place to finish. On weekdays it doesn't open until 2. Cloudlift Cellars is the smallest of the three and pours on weekends only, from noon to 5. Why go? The story. The founder started the winery in a shop he already had, and harvest still happens among the table saws and the drill press. The $20 tasting is waived with a purchase.
Farther south, two rooms keep such short hours that you should plan them on purpose. Nota Bene, in South Park, opens its winery on scheduled Saturday afternoons, roughly once a month. The next is its free harvest party on November 14. Cadence shares the address and is open by appointment only.
Pioneer Square: The Evening Pocket
Most SoDo rooms are winding down by 6 or 7. Pioneer Square is just getting going. That's the point.
Browne Family Vineyards sits in the 1906 Seller Building, all dark wood and leather seating. It stays open until 8 from Wednesday to Saturday. It's a ten-minute walk from the stadiums, and the room is small, so book ahead. Locus Wines is a seven-minute walk away on Occidental. It's open until 9 most nights, and its chef runs a full food menu, so you can make dinner of it. Bacovino is six minutes from Browne Family on Yesler Way, open until 8 Tuesday through Sunday. Our car-free guide has the walking order and the light rail stops.
Avoid Mondays. Browne Family and Bacovino are both closed.
West Seattle: California Avenue After Work
West Seattle's four rooms keep neighborhood hours, which means late afternoons and evenings. Thursday and Friday nights are the best fit.
Welcome Road is the friendliest place to start. Dogs and kids are welcome on the patio. There are graze plates of local cheese, and glasses are $5 on Wednesday and Thursday nights. It opens at 5 on those nights and at 4 on Fridays. Darby is a 14-minute walk south on Alaska Street and open until 8 on weeknights. It sells wine on tap to take home in growlers. Viscon Cellars is the late finish, open until 9 on Thursdays and Fridays. It's a tasting room and art gallery in one. On the second Thursday of the month, during the West Seattle Art Walk, tastings there are free.
The fourth room, Pine Lake Cellars, is an eight-minute walk from Viscon. Its website wouldn't load for us, so check its hours directly. From Pioneer Square, any of these is an 11- or 12-minute drive.
The North End: One Room per Neighborhood
In the north end, the rooms are too far apart to walk between. Aluel's Queen Anne room to Mansion Creek in Fremont is a 35-minute walk, and the others are farther. Don't try to link them. Pick the neighborhood you're spending the evening in, and make its winery the first stop.
The Orcas Project on Phinney Ridge is the easiest. It's open every day until 10, takes no reservations, and shares its space with Ben's Bread Co., Holy Mountain and Lioness. Mansion Creek in Fremont has a patio near the Burke-Gilman Trail with views of the ship canal and Mount Rainier. It opens Wednesday through Sunday, at 4 on weekdays and 2 on weekends. Aluel Cellars on Queen Anne Avenue is an evening wine bar with cheese and charcuterie, open Wednesday through Sunday. Only groups of five or more need to book. Its Ballard sibling, Après by Aluel, has an après-ski lodge feel. Aluel says it will close temporarily before the holidays, though. Check first.
Eight Bells on Lake City Way is the exception: a working winery rather than a wine bar, with the barrels in the building. It's open weekend afternoons, and the $25 tasting is waived with two bottles.
Bainbridge: Winslow or the Farms
Bainbridge has nine tasting rooms, and they split cleanly in two. Three are on Winslow Way, a short walk from the ferry, and the car-free guide covers them. The rest are out on the island, and that's a different day. The farm wineries are miles from the dock, so bring the car across or plan to bike. Bainbridge Vineyards warns that Uber and Lyft aren't reliable on the island.
Go for the vineyards. Bainbridge Vineyards, five miles north of the ferry, has grown its grapes organically on a historic farm since 1977. You sit in an outdoor wine garden, with covered, heated spaces for cool days. It's first come, first served, Friday through Sunday from 1 to 6 this fall. Perennial Vintners is four minutes away by car. It pours cool-climate Puget Sound wines beside its own vineyard, including a Melon de Bourgogne. It's on winter hours now, open weekends from 11 to 5. Bring a coat: on rainy days the tasting moves into an unheated basement winery. Eleven's winery on Day Road is four minutes from both and open every day from noon to 8. Cyclists who ride there get half off their tasting.
Two more round out the day. Rolling Bay is a small room with oak barrels stacked to the ceiling, open Friday evenings and weekend afternoons. Fletcher Bay's Coppertop room, two and a half miles from the ferry, has an enclosed patio with heat lamps and fireplaces. Kids get a play loft.
Vashon is the other island. Palouse Winery pours Friday through Sunday afternoons, with views of the Sound and the Olympics. Request a table before you travel. It's a ferry trip for a single winery, so go for the island, and let the wine be part of it.
The Eastside: Bellevue, Redmond and Beyond
The Eastside rooms are polished and convenient, and they keep long hours. Browne Family's Bellevue room is on Old Main and open every day, until 9 on Fridays and Saturdays. In Redmond Town Center, Samā Cellars welcomes walk-ins and pours a Syrah flight among its $25 tastings. Buy two bottles and the fee is waived. Melody Lynne's Redmond wine bar is a 12-minute walk from Samā, and its Kirkland room sells flowers and produce alongside the wine.
Then there's Woodinville. Have a car and a free afternoon? It's the next region over, with 98 tasting rooms to Seattle's 49. Our Woodinville guide is the place to start.
Farther out, three rooms reward a local rather than a visitor. William Grassie on Snoqualmie Ridge has patio seating and is open daily. In Renton, Drum Roll pours build-your-own flights in a renovated 1940s building downtown, Friday through Sunday. Cedar River Cellars sits among old-growth cedars and charges $12 for a flight.
Putting It Together
In Seattle, the day of the week chooses the neighborhood more than the wine does.
A Saturday afternoon: the Urbanworks building, then Georgetown for House of Smith and a late glass at Tinte.
A weeknight: Pioneer Square if you want dinner with your wine, West Seattle if you want a walk, or the north-end room closest to wherever you're eating.
A weekend on the water: Winslow on foot, or the Bainbridge farms with a car. Don't try to do both in one day.
A drive: the Eastside rooms, or keep going to Woodinville.
Each one fills an afternoon. Pick one, maybe two, and leave the rest for another trip. Rather start from the rooms than the neighborhoods? Our best wineries in Seattle, best Georgetown wineries and best outdoor patios pages rank them. Every listing shows walk and drive times to its neighbors.
Sources & Further Reading
- PourPlan — Seattle listings and walk and drive times between tasting rooms, queried 2026-10-28. 49 live tasting rooms: Georgetown 11 (including the SODO Urbanworks building and Long Shadows, not yet open), Bainbridge Island 9, Downtown Seattle 5, West Seattle 4, Renton 3, SoDo 3, South Seattle 3, Ballard 2, Redmond 2, and one each in Bellevue, Fremont, Kirkland, North Seattle, Queen Anne, Snoqualmie and Vashon. Woodinville: 98 live tasting rooms. Times used: Rôtie to Latta 1 minute on foot; Cairdeas to Tinte 6 minutes by car; Cairdeas to EFESTE 5, to Spruce Hill 4; House of Smith to Tinte 8 minutes on foot; Browne Family (Seattle) to Locus 7 minutes on foot, to Bacovino 6; Welcome Road to Darby 14 minutes on foot; Pine Lake to Viscon 8; Locus to West Seattle rooms 11–12 minutes by car; Aluel (Queen Anne) to Mansion Creek 35 minutes on foot; Bainbridge Vineyards to Perennial 5 minutes by car, Eleven (Day Road) to Bainbridge Vineyards and to Perennial 4 each; Samā to Melody Lynne (Redmond) 12 minutes on foot.
- PourPlan — Wine Tasting in Seattle Without a Car — Urbanworks, Pioneer Square, Winslow, light rail and the walk-on ferry.
- Cairdeas Winery — SODO tasting room — Wednesday–Monday 12–6; outdoor patio; kid snack packs.
- Michael Florentino Cellars — Visit — Thursday–Friday 3–7, Saturday–Sunday 1–7.
- Patterson Cellars — SoDo tasting room — Thursday 12–6, Friday–Saturday 12–7, Sunday 12–5; walk-ins welcome; Thursday and Friday happy hour with $10 plates.
- Rôtie Cellars — Visit — Thursday–Saturday 11–7, Sunday–Monday 12–5; leashed dogs on the patio.
- Sleight of Hand Cellars — Contact — SODO: Thursday 2–6, Friday–Saturday 12–7, Sunday 12–5; vinyl records and live music.
- Structure Cellars — Seattle tasting room and logistics — Thursday 2–6, Friday 2–7, Saturday 12–7, Sunday 12–6; reservation recommended for any group size; meat and cheese boards.
- Latta Wines — Locations — 3933 1st Ave S; Thursday–Saturday 12–6, Sunday 12–5.
- Long Shadows — Visit and taste — Seattle tasting room "opening November 2026."
- EFESTĒ — Visit — Open daily 12–7, special hours for games; next to T-Mobile Park; $25 tasting waived with two bottles.
- Spruce Hill Winery — Visit us in Seattle — Saturdays 2–6 or by appointment, inside the production space. T2 Cellar — Location and contact — Same suite; the two pages list different hours.
- House of Smith — Visit us — Jet City: former Dr Pepper bottling plant, Boeing Field and Mount Rainier views, Olson Kundig rooms; Wednesday–Sunday 12–6; walk-ins welcome, reservations optional.
- Tinte Cellars — Tasting rooms — Georgetown: Wednesday–Friday from 2, Saturday–Sunday from 12, until 8; seasonal food menu.
- Cloudlift Cellars — FAQs, our story and home — Saturday and Sunday 12–5; $20 tasting waived with purchase.
- Nota Bene Cellars — Home — South Park; scheduled open Saturdays 1–5, harvest party November 14. Cadence Winery — Contact — Open by appointment only.
- Browne Family Vineyards — Seattle — 1906 Seller Building; closed Monday, open until 8 Wednesday–Saturday; reservations highly encouraged; 10-minute walk from the stadiums. Bellevue — Old Main; open daily, until 9 Friday–Saturday.
- Locus Wines — Home — Monday–Friday 3–9, Saturday 12–9, Sunday 12–7; full food menu.
- Bacovino Winery — Seattle waterfront tasting room — Tuesday–Sunday 1–8.
- Welcome Road Winery — Home and contact — Wednesday–Thursday 5–8, Friday 4–8, Saturday 3–7, Sunday 2–5; patio, dogs and kids welcome; $5 glass nights.
- Darby Winery — West Seattle tasting room — Tuesday–Friday 3–8, Saturday 1–8, Sunday 1–7; wine on tap in growlers.
- Viscon Cellars — Tasting room and home — Thursday–Friday 5–9, Saturday 1–6; tasting room and gallery; free tastings during the second-Thursday art walk.
- The Orcas Project — Visit — Phinney Ridge; open daily until 10; no reservations; shares space with Ben's Bread Co., Holy Mountain and Lioness.
- Mansion Creek Cellars — Visit us and home — Wednesday–Sunday; patio near the Burke-Gilman Trail; ship canal and Mount Rainier views.
- Aluel Cellars — Tasting room and Après by Aluel — Queen Anne Wednesday–Sunday evenings; reservations required for groups of five or more; Après to close temporarily before the holidays.
- Eight Bells Winery — Tasting and home — Friday 1–5, Saturday–Sunday 12–5; $25 tasting waived with two bottles; a working winery.
- Bainbridge Vineyards — Tasting room, home and getting here — Organic since 1977; outdoor wine garden with heated covered seating; first come, first served; fall hours Friday–Sunday 1–6; 5 miles from the ferry.
- Perennial Vintners — Visit and home — Winter hours weekends 11–5; no reservations during open hours; unheated indoor winery on rainy days; Melon de Bourgogne.
- Eleven Winery — Visit — Day Road winery open daily 12–8, about five miles from the ferry; half-price tasting for cyclists.
- Rolling Bay Winery — About and contact — Friday 4–7, Saturday–Sunday 12–5; oak barrels stacked to the ceiling.
- Fletcher Bay Winery — Locations — Coppertop: about 2.5 miles from the ferry; enclosed patio with heat lamps and fireplaces; kids' play loft.
- Palouse Winery — Home and reservations — Vashon; Friday–Sunday 12–5; request your tasting before you travel.
- Samā Cellars — Visit — Redmond Town Center; walk-ins welcome, reservations recommended; $25 flights waived with two bottles.
- The Melody Lynne Vineyard — Wine bar and contact — Kirkland and Redmond rooms; flowers and produce in Kirkland.
- William Grassie Wine Estates — Home — Snoqualmie Ridge open daily; indoor and patio seating.
- Drum Roll Wine — Visit — Renovated 1940s building in downtown Renton; Friday–Sunday; build-your-own flights.
- Cedar River Cellars — Home — Among old-growth cedars; $12 flight; Friday 4–7, Saturday–Sunday 12–5.
- PourPlan — Seattle Best Of lists: Best Wineries, Best Georgetown, Best Value, Best Outdoor Patios, Best Pet Friendly.