Lodi's Underdog Pours Its Heart Out
East Lodi · Lodi · Wine Tasting – Lodi Winery Tasting Room · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · July 17, 2026
RagingWine reviewed d'Art Wines – Tasting Room’s wine list and gave it The Wild Card — RagingWine’s Vibe-Check rating. How RagingWine reviews wine lists →
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The list is short and laser-focused — this is a single-producer tasting room, not a wine bar trying to please everyone. What strikes you immediately is the range of red varieties for a small Lodi estate: Zinfandel and Cabernet are expected, but Tempranillo, Barbera, and Petite Sirah signal that someone here has actual opinions. At $30 a bottle across the board, the pricing alone makes you lean in.
D'Art keeps it entirely in-house and entirely in Lodi, which is either a limitation or a statement depending on how you feel about the appellation. The lineup leans heavily red — Cabernet Sauvignon, Zinfandel, Syrah, Petite Sirah, Tempranillo, and Barbera cover serious ground for an estate this size. The port-style dessert wines round things out and suggest a winemaker who isn't just chasing the obvious play. What you won't find here: white wines, anything from outside the region, or a list that pads itself with recognizable labels to juice margins.
Tasting room format means you're working through pours rather than ordering by the glass in the traditional sense — think structured flights or individual tastes at the bar. Specific pour pricing isn't confirmed in available data, but at $30 a bottle for most offerings, the math works in your favor even if you end up buying a bottle to finish. The tasting experience is the point here, not a by-the-glass program.
d'Art Wines 2022 Barbera — $30
Barbera at this price from a focused estate producer is a genuine find — the variety tends to over-deliver on freshness and acidity relative to its price point, and Lodi's warm growing season adds depth that Italian Barbera doesn't always hit at this tier.
d'Art Tempranillo
Most people walk into a Lodi tasting room ready for Zinfandel and leave without touching the Tempranillo — that's a mistake here. Lodi's climate has a legitimate argument for Spanish varieties, and a small-production Tempranillo from an estate that clearly sweated the details is worth the detour.
d'Art Cabernet Sauvignon
Not because it's bad — it's almost certainly fine — but Cab is the safe harbor in any Lodi tasting room and you can get a version of this story almost anywhere. With Tempranillo, Barbera, and Petite Sirah on the same table, defaulting to Cabernet feels like ordering a cheeseburger at a ramen shop.
d'Art Petite Sirah + Charcuterie board
Petite Sirah is ink-dark, tannic, and built for something with fat and salt to push against. A charcuterie spread — cured meats, hard cheeses, olives — gives the wine something to grip and softens its edges without asking it to be something it's not. It's the move for a tasting room afternoon that's heading somewhere good.
The Bottom Line
D'Art isn't trying to be a destination wine bar — it's a focused Lodi estate doing honest work with varieties most producers won't touch, at prices that feel almost apologetically fair. If you're driving through wine country Lodi and want something that isn't the same Zinfandel story told for the tenth time, pull over here.
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