Eat like a royal at Jordan Winery.

In 2019, Jordan debuted the chateau's remodeled private dining room with a modern, earthly take on its 18th Century French design. The buttercup yellow walls and sherbet green fabric were replaced with elegant grays and leafy branch designs. Gold leaf drapes, velvet, and linen line the room's four tables, and custom pottery vases made from the estate's garden clay accent the room.

It's here that members can take advantage of private culinary experiences consisting of food and wine pairings (like Champagne and caviar), lunches, and multi-course dinners. Members also get preferred pricing and sometimes exclusive access to winery events, like the Big Bottle dinner featuring large-format bottles of past vintages.

Chef Todd Knoll, who has long helmed the kitchen at Jordan, is experimenting with culinary creativity not just influenced by the Estate (where he has his own culinary garden) but folded into it. "I have this thousand acres to play with. So I have the opportunity to get hyperlocal," he says. Many of the same foods that the area's Native American tribes acquired show up in his dishes, including acorns, kama bulbs, porcini mushrooms, miner's lettuce, manzanita bark, and cattails.

"I'm constantly changing menus all the time, he says. "It's more than just the food on the plate, it's the whole story."

French Country Dreams: Stay at Jordan Winery

Private doors in the chateau open up with the more wine you drink. It's not a hotel, it's something far better: A true taste of Sonoma royalty.

Upstairs, above the lavish dining room and the expansive cask room, above the gardens and the patio, Jordan reserves three chateau suites (ranging in size from 575 to 775 square feet) for its most loyal members where you can stay the night for a song ($100-$150 a night). Extensive renovations on all three suites—the first since their debut in 1979—were completed this summer, offering a whole new level of Old World luxury typically reserved for Europe's most expensive hotels.

The exposed wood beam ceilings and hexagonal-tiled terra-cotta floors were preserved, but the suites otherwise underwent incredible and meticulous transformations at the hands of San Francisco designer Maria Hiadamus in collaboration with Loczi Design Group. The result is a seamless mix of modern day and French antiques from Louis XV (an homage to founder Sally Jordan) and the XVI and XII periods (a favorite of CEO John Jordan's). Not a single detail was overlooked throughout the eight-month process.

The most delightful surprises are the large and luxurious bathrooms, botanical wallpaper that serves as a tribute to the estate's natural habitat, and vintage armoires that now double as entertainment centers complete with a turntable and French records. One of these armoires, brought over to the U.S. by Sally Jordan in the 1970s, came from the Lafite Rothschild Family, one of the most famous wine families in the world.

Each room also has a wet bar stocked with wet towel service, housemade snacks, and a bottle of wine. Before your departure out into the morning fog, a fresh continental breakfast is hand-delivered to your door. By the next day, you'll wonder if it was all a dream.