I've been visiting Ficklin Vineyards for several years now. Their award winning Ports are fabulous, and they have several events every year open to the public in addition to their daily tasting room, wine trail, and Portfolio Society member events. The people are kind, helpful and informative...and did I mention the Port? More

A beautiful winery setting for the makers of world famos port wines. An enjoyable experience More

Delicious ports, some other varieties - rasberry, chocolate, etc They show you how to mix them for delicious after dinner drinks More

This is a great winery to visit if you like Port. Even if you don't, is it different from other wineries. Ficklin specializes in port, but pours a few other wines as well. There are generous pours, and the number of varieties available for tasting are numerous as well. There is no fee for tasting unless you have a group... More

I'm not into dessert wines but I have to say here they make real great ports, and when I went I tested over 8 kinds and not all ports. The service was amazing, they even tried to find ice cream for us so we could test it with the wine, I also was able to taste wine that is for... More

I visited the madera wineries open on valentine's day, and this one was most excellent! They handled the crowds pretty well, there was really cool stuff to see, and the wines were VERY good. The table wines were outstanding, and they let us walk through the old adobe building. It was a lot of fun,and the people pouring the wines... More

This is a speciality winery. They only make ports! All ports are stonger and sweeter than regular wines. It is a word renound port vineyard. If you order port (as or with dessert) in a restaurant, Finklin will likely be on the menu. It is VERY rare that a winery does not charge for tastings. You used to be able... More

This was the first time I had been wine tasting. I was hoping to find out some info. about the process or anything about wine that would make me like it. I didn't hear anything about that. They did have tons of barrels in the building which looked really neat. The lady that was at the counter didn't seem very... More