Moonstone Crossing Winery

Great wine! Great atmosphere! Sharon was extremely enthusiastic and helped me find my wine pallet. Couldn’t have asked for a better first winery experience. Thank you to Don and Sharon for the great wine and fun time.

Nice atmosphere and great wine! Fun place to do a wine tasting with friends.

Good wine, huge selection for tasting. A bit expensive for tastings in comparison to the quality of the wine. I like to see more of a discount for tastings when you buy wine, especially for the price.

This was my first wine tasting. Prior I just went off recommendations of friends and would purchase a bottle and love it or hate it, I had a bottle. Also, being vegetarian, I like to know if the filtering process is vegetarian, and they are possibly the most open winery I have found, and they will discuss their processes to help ensure their wines aren’t conflicting with diet restrictions. Seriously, this place is veggie/​vegan friendly. Don was very friendly and excellent about discussing wines (I’m sure he could do the hoity-​toity talk, but he was keeping it user-​friendly, which I loved). He even kept my mother (who *hates* wine) entertained as myself and my aunt tried our dozen half-​ounces. I even love that I got to take home a list that I was able to mark and note which wines I enjoyed. Overall we purchased 4 bottles, and I’m looking forward to tasting and purchasing more!

Very tasty. Small but excellent service. Enjoyed the pour.

Really awesome place for tasting, hanging out or just chatting with the owners. I loved all the whites that I tried, and ended up buying two bottles that were on sale for a great deal. Don and Sharon are super friendly and will answer any question you have. Also really tasty chocolate truffles there made by a local girl, elkyia menes. Goes great with the tastings!

Wonderful wines — they do a terrific job of exploring a range of both typical and comparatively unusual varietals as well as generating some very interesting blends. They are located building formally used as the old town museum, right in the heart of the major Northcoast Megalopolis of Trinidad, California.

Who would have thought you’d find a winery smack-​dabb in the middle of Trinidad?
Visiting Moonstone Crossing’s Winery Tasting Room was a lot of fun! This small, cozy & welcoming tasting room left me with some of the most enjoyable memories on my Humboldt trip.
My mom, brother & I stopped in for a tasting on a Sunday afternoon. I am a wine drinker, and love my reds. This was a very good deal and I was able to try many reds of my interest. My favorite was the Gold Medal winning 2007 Wish Upon a Star, which was a blend of Sangiovese, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon & Aglianico. I also enjoyed the 2005 Zinfandel Port, which won a Silver Medal. We ended up buying a bottle of the Zin Port to take home.
The red wines were superb — smooth, full-​bodied to my preference, and memorable. While most of their grapes are grown south of Humboldt County (in Mendocino County, Alexander Valley.) its great to have the wine tasting experience while in Trinidad. I extremely enjoyed myself, and would highly recommend others wine drinkers to stop by for a tasting or to purchase a few bottles!

Great time was had by all as we tasted our way through all the wines from Moonstone. Well almost all the wines. Three of us made it through about twenty wines and ports of the 33 offered by Moonstone, the other six people dropped one at a time as we went along. My wine knowledge is limited and I always feel a bit intimidated at places like this but Don made us all comfortable and explained each wine and port to us in great detail. My favorite was the ’07 «Dark as night» Thanks Don for sharing your passion with us.

Very good wine, nice tasting room and Don and Sharon are very friendly and helpful in everything about wine. I recommend checking the tasting room out.

The Rose’ is my favorite of all. The tasting room is really neat and the experience of trying the wines was a real treat. Don and Sharon are so friendly and knowledgeable, I really enjoyed being there and purchasing great wine for my event.

The weather out is horrific. Cold, rainy and stormy, it’s best to stay in and batten down the hatches and write Unilocal reviews.
Moonstone Crossing will be my latest victim.
By the way, I know someone with the middle name of «Moonbeam». I know this adds nothing relevant to my review, but thought I would share.
I recently had the chance to sample this wine in of all places Scottsdale, Arizona. How on earth does a wine from tiny Trinidad, California make it’s way to Arizona? I don’t even know where Trinidad is, but after tasting a bottle I need to find out and get my butt down there!
I had the chance to taste from two wines from this winery. Wine number 1 was a 2006 pinotage. This wine was a medium-​bodied with nice finish. I thought it may have been a little more fruit forward for my taste, but I know plenty of people who prefer a wine in this style and this would make for a nice bottle to take to someones home.
Wine number 2 was the winner. A 2005 cabernet franc which was huge! Big bold, inky in color, this wine is no lightweight. This bottle was made in true French style and can stand up to the most hearty of wintery dishes. Think Beef Bourguignon. I’m no wine expert, but I do think this wine could be held a few more years and it would even be better.
Moonstone Crossing, I am on a mission. I must locate Trinidad and find your tasting room. You have won me over.

Lucky for us, this tasting room stays open until 6PM on Sundays. We’d finished our last hike for the weekend. Before heading home several hours of driving away, we were able to indulge ourselves and stop by this tasting room to try the extensive varietals that they have.
The winemaker obviously has a passion for the wines that he makes: It shows in the quality of his product! He finds his grapes from different vineyards around California. So, you’ll find wines crafted from grapes grown in Mendocino, Amador, Alexander Valley, and other familiar places.
I enjoyed many of the wines that they had, but I especially liked the Bordeaux red blend and the Tuscan red blend.
They also have 2 ports: a lighter version and a «full flavored» version made of a blend of petit syrah and zinfandel.
The tasting room is sort of «inset» in the middle of the block. We saw a sign attached to the windshield of a car parked in the street. A useful landmark is the Trinidad Bay Eatery, a restaurant located across the street from the tasting room.
[The tasting room charges a small fee for tasting a flight of their wines, but if you buy a bottle per person, they’ll waive it.]