Bella

Under a flowering hill at the northern edge of Dry Creek Valley, there's a party in progress (bellawinery.com). Bella's caves are as pretty as the name suggests and impressively hardworking, turning grapes from 105-year-old estate vines into prize zinfandels and syrah. Duck into the cave for a tasting with Bella's upbeat winery team, and emerge blinking in the sunshine, gripping a glass (OK, bottle) of rosé of grenache to toast the enduring beauty of life (bottles $28 to $68).