Old Sugar Mill

Just absolutely love. The wineries are wonderful here and I love the tasting room atmospheres. Elevation Ten, Merlo, and Heringer are my favorite tasting rooms. Great people, beautiful scenery, and of course amazing wine! Love coming here.

Place was super cute! 11 wineries within the building. Great place to stop and chill. $ 5 tastings at each area… Free if you purchase wine. Make sure to bring a cooler or snacks. They have so many places to eat, but not a great food selection. Lastly, two of the wineries are outside and around the corner of the building. Great wine in the back. This could also be an awesome wedding venue! We will be going back!

Old Sugar Mill has been around for a very long time, dating back to when sugar was actually grown in the area! Time has aged the old mill into a cool backdrop for showcasing the various small wineries in the Sacramento Delta region. The mill has several small wineries under one very large roof which allows visitors to quickly sample wines from all over the region.
The owners have kept a lot of the mill in a stable condition, although some of the areas still have an abandoned warehouse feel. The exposed brick, various metal fittings, and old windows are both cool and spooky adding a unique element to a wine tasting trip. The facility is also available for private events and weddings.
Accessing the Old Sugar Mill is a little challenging, although the new Cosumnes River Blvd interchange has improved access. You will need to drive a bit into the delta along the levee roads to access the facility, but that is part of the fun. So close to Sacramento, but so far away. I recommend visiting here often to explore a different side of California wine.

Beautiful old building! There is fun stuff to buy and some good wine (ok, not great necessarily). Clarksburg Winery a highlight. Food truck out on Sunday afternoon so that was yummy. Good way to get in several wineries at once.

Fun for a 1 stop shop of wines and olive oils from the area. Easy for a group. You can always bring snacks and sit outside, a bit cold in the winter. They used to not have any food on site, now one of the wineries does offer some snacks thanks god cuz it’s a lot of time with a lot of wine

My wife and I chose to celebrate our wedding day here because it is truly an amazing place. The price was really good too, compared to comparable venues.
Marnie and Krista did a great job explaining everything and answering all of our questions and concerns. Their staff did a phenomenal job setting everything up and helping out.
We are very happy that we picked Old Sugar Mill. You will be too.

I love how many wineries were under one roof. A friend threw a baby shower in the Barrel Room. Gorgeous! It was so elegant. A couple of us would leave and get wine slushies right across the room =). I would definitely come back and will definitely have a private party here one day.

One thing I loved about the old sugar mill is so many wineries were under one roof. You don’t need to drive to several wineries. I bought two bottles there. I’ll go again.

Worst place to come!
The staff are thief’s! They stole my 2500 dollar camera and refuse to give it back.
Avoid this place.

I’m from San Diego, and the only other winery I’ve been to is one in Temecula. I came here because my family mainly lives in the Bay Area, and one of my cousins from Sacramento got married and had their reception here.
I loved this venue. The place itself is old, rustic, and vintage, but it was somewhat modernized and glamorized with the decorations that the Old Sugar Mill employees put up. I love anything that deals with brick walls, broken glass, and barrels mixed with white flowers, white curtains, and lights. Just the whole feel and different, yet complimenting looks are so beautiful. Also, I love the idea of it being an Old Sugar Mill turned into a winery.
Compared to the winery in Temecula, it’s definitely smaller. Not to mention, it doesn’t have spas and rooms to stay the night. This isn’t the place to do that, though, and I don’t mind. I like the old-​time feel. There’s a building for the wine, a big outside lawn, and another building where the reception was held.
I got the chance to do complimentary wine tasting – 5 different reds and whites. The lady that poured the wine for us sounded like such a connoisseur, and was very informative and knowledgable about each wine. The main letdown was how the staff didn’t take the dinner plates off my tables (as well as 3 others in my row) until an hour or so after the rest of the plates were collected. Overall, I enjoyed the place.

I love this place. Been here twice and enjoyed myself both times. There are several wine makers you can choose from. I love the large room in the back. Seems like a great place to throw a event.

The Old Sugar Mill is one of my favorites when I have friends come in from out of town, the people are always friendly and helpful. It can get busy on weekends if they are having an event so expect to park in the dirt lot. I like Merlo Family wines, their Blackbird blend is delicious! Bring some food and have a picnic.
While you are in Clarksburg visit Bogle Vineyards, they are a short drive down the road.

Great place to try different wineries. Came here today for the Wine and Cheese Faire 2015. It was great! Lots of cheese vendors and different wineries. Wish they had more pairings, but over all was really enjoyable. The cheese 101 class was also great! More wine and cheese!
I’ve also come on a non-​event day and everything was great. It’s a little bit out of the way, but worth the trip!

I love this place! I have a few good friends that live in Sacramento, and one of them brought me here when I went to visit her last year. I asked her if we could please go back again when I visited this last time. Lots of wineries to try many, many wines, and even olive oils and vinegars. Definitely bring extra cash because you will find at least a couple bottles you’d want to take home.

I cannot believe I haven’t reviewed this place yet!
This is a fabulous place to go wine tasting. The sugar mill has several wineries nestled inside it, so you have many options for where to go. There is also Draconi’s out back. The building is really neat, and made of brick and lots of windows. There are vineyards across the road which are great for taking pictures at. Out back is a great place to hang out at, though there seems to be a lot of wasps hanging around. Eek!
The parking lot is big, but generally packed on the weekends. It’s pretty tight but my boyfriend and I haven’t had any problems when we go.
We first tried Draconi’s, the guy who runs it is funny and great to talk to. We ended up getting a bottle of red as well as a couple wine glasses from here. Todd Taylor is really good too, but often pretty busy. When we came here yesterday we went to Three something. I tried the summer time sippers, which was five wines that included three white, one rose, and one zinfandel. I loved them all, especially the Riesling! My boyfriend had all the grapes in one basket or something like that, which was all red. It was fun to sit at this bar. You can also get a glass of wine or a bottle.
The tasting fees are $ 5 per person but most waive it if you get a bottle. The wineries are never pushy about having to purchase bottles which is nice.
Sometimes there are food trucks out back!

The middle of nowhere is always between somewhere and somewhere else, and people live there.
While I don’t usually go places you have to cross a bridge to get to, friends from out of town lured me here. We crossed … 3, 4 bridges? The Sacramento River south of Sac is a very pretty scene, which could be almost anywhere in America. Large levees keep it in place, and it seems to have enough water for now. Outside the levees are miles and miles of farmland. They used to grow sugar beets here, now it’s grapes. Welcome to the 21^st Century.
The Old Sugar Mill is a huge complex, of which only a small portion has been remodeled for public use. A half dozen wineries have tasting rooms in the gallery; our destination was Three Winery. Yeah, Three as in 3. They were rolling out some new wines and throwing a party for their wine club.
The building is brick. While large steel I-​beams hold up the roof, my earthquake eyes were almost panicking at the old brick. It’s pretty, yeah. Just if everything starts moving there’s nowhere to hide. Behind the brick are stacks of barrels of wine. Each stack must be about 24 tons, and the rooms are full of them. OK. Somehow I managed to put these thoughts aside, and enjoy the wine.
3 Winery is for another review. Let’s just say here it’s a wonderful family business that bottles wine from all over California, and I liked what they were producing. The owner/​vintner told good stories about the history of California wine, and we appreciated the fruit of vines that are older than we are. The free picnic lunch was delicious, too.
Besides the gallery, there are shaded lawns (Hello, drought! Now I know who the Governor was talking to this month.) where picnics and entertainment can set up very easily. Some day the whole building may be renovated. Right now it’s a relic of past enterprise, living a slightly more refined life.
The building, the wine, and the Sacramento Valley make a beautiful day trip from San Francisco.

I’ve been to Old Sugar Mill twice now– once for regular ol’ wine tasting and once for a wedding. I really enjoyed O.S.M. for wine tasting, as there were 5 or 6 wineries to mosey around to at our leisure– plus all the wineries are enclosed indoors, which can be a major selling point during our scorching Sacramento summers. As memory serves most of those wineries offered free tastings, and the ones that did charge were pretty cheap (but this was a few years back, things may have changed).
The wedding I attended at Old Sugar Mill last fall was just beautiful. I am a huge sucker for old buildings with history to begin with, so imagine how well this venue worked for a Jazz Age-​themed wedding. The ceremony room was awesome, the whole back wall is a solid wall of wine barrels stretching up to the vaulted ceilings. The main hall was used for the reception; the décor, the lighting, the atmosphere, the awesome staff, EVERYthing was on-​point. Old Sugar Mill is officially the best wedding venue I’ve ever experienced (and the wedding was pretty dandy too, of course!)

What a fun concept with so much potential for growth!
The Old Sugar Mill, is in fact, an old sugar mill that is now a space for wineries. What is nice about this space is that you can hit up multiple wineries without having to worry about driving somewhere. Currently they have a good number of wineries, but it looked like they were planning on expanding and adding more stores and wineries in the near future.
The other part of this space that I liked is that it gives smaller wineries a chance to have a tasting room. There are wineries here (I believe it is the right side when you walk in) that don’t make the wine on site. This gives these small growers and wine makers a chance to establish a client base by giving them a tasting room. There is also space for wineries to make their wine on site too. So it is the best of both worlds.
As they continue to grow my hope is they won’t change the grounds or the décor too much. Part of the charm was the way they used «ruins» of a time gone by to create something new and fun. They work with the old to create something new, and that is quite special.
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Now you don’t have to drive all the way to Napa or Sonoma for a wine tasting experience. We have an awesome place to go for an amazing wine tasting experience. This old sugar mill is now home to several wineries. It’s like a one stop shop. No need to drive around, which can be dangerous while inebriated.
Most of the places here will deduct the wine tasting fee from your purchase of a bottle. I like that this place has a variety of wines. There’s something for everyone! Now that I know that this place exist, I’ll be coming here whenever I need to replenish my collection.

As a wino, I wondered why I have never been to the Old Sugar Mill?! But whateves the reason when my girlfriend’s bridesmaids planned her bachelorette weekend I was completely game!
In advance they arranged for taxi service to drive us to and from. Also we brought an abundance of fruit, cheeses, charcuterie, etc (my favorite meal on earth!) for snacking on later. We arrived around opening time which is 11:00 am and began tasting. So each winery has a tasting fee of $ 5 and many wave that fee if you make purchases. Who doesn’t like being surrounded by wineries?!
I was in heaven because not only was there wine but a number of foodie treats; there were wine slushies, cigars, and various flavored vinegars, Olive oils and sea salts. I bought a cognac cigar for Hubby and aged Balsamic vinegar for me. Normally there is two food trucks that park and serve but sadly not that day.
After hours of tastings and laughs, we found a cozy spot near a man made fountain to began stuffing our faces. Opening up some of our vino purchases, we went to town! We tasted and ate until closing, which is 5:00 pm! Very fun tipsy event! Felt so bad for the cab drivers on the way home, they got earful of tipsy gal conversations! Cheers!