Wine Guerrilla owner Bruce Patch made a very lucky score when he came across the space that is now his tasting room in Forestville.
The building was formerly an art gallery, and it sings with style, from natural cork floors to polished, strawberry blond built-in furniture, as well as a curving, stacked half-wall hallway leading to a landscaped garden out back.
[...] lined with glittering wine bottles, the space still acts as an art salon, featuring oversize prints of Wine Guerrilla labels.
Front and center is the area's renowned Zinfandel, but this also is the only place around to explore an array of imaginative field blends in obscure varietals such as Carignan, Alicante Bouschet, Palomino and Chasselas Dore.
Tiny, rural Forestville disappears as soon as you step into the shop, eclipsed by chic structure and walls lined with the oversized renditions of Wine Guerrilla's labels.
An Adel's Vineyard Zinfandel print shows a milky white nymph musing under the moonlight in a dark forest, while another, the label for the signature Rebel Cru blend, depicts a band of fanciful "guerrilla" soldiers in a mystical garden.
