The sign is up at the corner of Highway 12 and Warm Springs Road, and the septic permit the project waited four years for has been issued.
Burtech Wine & Pizza is taking the corner building at 9580 Highway 12. Signage went up this month, with the company’s shield crest over the entry arch. Burtech Family Vineyard is a San Diego County winery that bought a Sonoma vineyard and has poured at Sugarloaf Wine Co. near Oakmont.
When we reported on this corner earlier in the month, the tenant was unconfirmed. Burtech held a pending winegrower license at the address, and the permits named nobody. The new sign confirms that Burtech is the tenant.
The septic permit is issued
The project runs on a use permit filed in May 2022 and approved that year. It authorizes a 1,561-square-foot pizza restaurant serving alcohol, with patio seating and hours of 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., seven days a week. The permit superseded the site’s wine-tasting entitlement from 2011.
Wastewater held it up for four years. A commercial kitchen on a half-acre parcel is hard to plumb. The first septic permit expired, and two more applications went in this May and were withdrawn within weeks.
Septic permit SEP26-0169, the fourth attempt, is now issued. A revision closed on Aug. 13 that tripled the grease interceptor from 320 gallons to 1,000, with the tank staying where it was. The old well on the site, 143 feet deep with six inches of steel casing, was destroyed on July 24.
The one permit still open is BLD26-1655, the tenant-improvement permit covering heating, equipment, walls and signs. It is marked “resubmittal received,” which means the county has the revised plans and is reviewing them. The doors taped off in the photograph are being painted.
No opening date has been announced. The fit-out permit has to be issued and the work signed off first.
Sources: Sonoma County permit records for APN 050-263-050 (UPE22-0037, ADR26-0022, BLD26-1655, SEP26-0169 and its August revision, WVB26-0008, WEL26-0170), retrieved Aug. 26, 2026, and searchable on our permit database; California ABC license records; signage photographed on site.