A brewery and a winery are now pouring drinks in adjacent tasting-room spaces in downtown Ramona. Smoking Cannon Brewery’s new tasting room at 638 Main St. opened October 2, next to the longtime Pamo Valley Winery tasting room at 636 Main St.
The two businesses share tasting-room space and offer their products to customers at the same time, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. Smoking Cannon’s tasting room is next to Pamo Valley’s space. The brewery is family-friendly, and the winery welcomes children and well-behaved dogs.
Jennifer Lane owns the Pamo Valley Winery tasting room and took over the vineyard in 2007. The original tasting room opened in 2011 and later moved to 636 Main St. The two businesses now share tasting-room space.
Shared Tasting-Room Space
The businesses share a wall and interior space.
Local eateries deliver food to the winery.
The shared space lets beer drinkers and wine lovers mingle in the same room.
Plans for a Main Street Tasting Room
In an earlier Union-Tribune report, Cassie Goforth said the tasting-room idea made sense.
In an earlier Union-Tribune report, Cassie Goforth said the tasting-room idea made sense. Accounts differ on exactly when the Goforths took over the brewery. The Union-Tribune reported the sale closed in May 2025, with the couple buying it from previous owners Mike Nelson and Natallie Phillips, who retired afterward. Sandiegobeer.news, however, reported the purchase happened in June. The tasting-room space at 638 Main St. previously housed a Ramona workspace.
Pamo Valley Winery is open 2 to 6 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, 2 to 7 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, 2 to 8 p.m. Friday, noon to 8 p.m. Saturday, and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday.
A Model With Local Precedent
Ramona has tried this kind of arrangement before. In 2022, Pamo Valley Winery and Vina Ramona planned to sell their wines together at 636 Main St., with Vina Ramona’s owner describing it as a collective wine group under one roof, according to the Union-Tribune’s 2022 coverage.
Shared beverage spaces have popped up elsewhere, too. VinePair has pointed to the growing popularity of hybrid brewery-winery operations nationally, citing examples like Napa’s St. Clair Brown Winery and Brewery, which opened a wine tasting room in 2013 before adding a nano-brewery, and New York’s Wagner Vineyards, which added a brewery nearly two decades after opening its winery.
The timing lines up with a mixed moment for the craft beer industry. The Brewers Association reported that U.S. craft beer production fell 4% in 2025 to 22,034,000 barrels, even as craft beer’s overall market share ticked up from 13.2% to 13.4%. The number of operating craft breweries nationwide dropped 2.9% to 9,578, and new openings fell sharply to 300 from 518 the year before, while the association noted that hospitality-driven models like taprooms held up comparatively well.
