Picchetti Winery, Cupertino

I live in Mountain View which is about 20 minutes away from Picchetti Winery and I find that this is a wonderful place to bring out of town guests who want try some winetasting but don't want to drive the 1.5 hours to Napa Valley. It doesn't have the best wines, in my opinion, but they have an expansive tasting room (you need to pay a small fee to taste) and wonderful picnic grounds which feature live jazz bands on weekends in the summer and miraculously doesn't get too crowded. I also recommend Bonny Doon winery in the Santa Cruz hills, which is a little further away but has superior wines!