Passaggio Wines leaves Sonoma for San Francisco’s Treasure Island

The vintner cites changing rules during the coronavirus pandemic for the move of the winery and tasting room from Vine Alley to San Francisco’s growing wine hub on Treasure Island.|
KATHLEEN HILL
INDEX-TRIBUNE FOOD AND WINE EDITOR

Cindy Cosco, one-time cop and current winemaker and owner of Passaggio Wines in Sonoma, has decided to move her winery and her tasting room to Treasure Island effective Jan. 1, 2021.

Cosco has enjoyed making her wines in Sonoma and having her tasting room downtown in Melissa Detert’s Vine Alley on Napa Street. But with the ever-changing wine industry and COVID restrictions for wineries and tasting rooms, she has found a new home at Treasure Island Wines, a wine-making and tasting facility where she will make her wines and have her tasting room and outdoor areas all in one spot.

Besides easy driving to the winery, ferry service from San Francisco is expected to be available to Treasure Island within the next year, according to Passaggio manager Carole Martinson.

Once COVID restrictions are lifted, the tasting room at Treasure Island will be open on weekends and Fridays for happy hour. The new address is 995 Ninth St., Treasure Island, San Francisco.

Cosco started Passaggio in 2007 and grew the brand from 50 cases of unoaked chardonnay to 1,750 cases of 15 different wines.

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