Napa Vineyards

First wine tasting trip

... there were dozens of people waiting outside). So visits are only on weekends! Bummer number one... Bummer number 2....most of the vineyards are minute and there is thousands of them making it difficult to select. Additionally most of them charge a fee ...

... converted to a residence.  Complete with a lake, neighboring vineyard, and horses, I don't think it could have been any more gorgeous.  I'd love to go back in the fall when the hills have turned brown and the vineyards are full of foliage. ...

... Winery. The cool thing here was the gondola tram ride up to the winery on top of a hill overlooking the immediate vineyards that supply the winery. After a self guided wine production tour (covering seeing the grapes delivered, the fermenting tanks and ...

... yummy skillet cornbread. Drove scenic highways of Napa and Sonoma, oo'ing and ah'ing at all the beautifully landscaped vineyards and their georgeous flowers. V. Sattui for wine tasting. Their deli was a busy place; tree-shaded area with picnic tables ...

... an estate winery, making the Trinitas wine, which we of course had to sample. The tasting room was located in caves under the vineyards. After our tasting we walked a bit around the vineyards and played a game of Bocce at the Hotel. For the evening we ...

... and San Francisco, with a long growing season and warm climate for the grapes. While in the valley, we visited a number of vineyards all with their own unique styles and flavours of wine. The Trefethen vineyard is situated at the beginning of the wine ...

... - they had an actual ¼ mile track inside one of the buildings for example - but now it is a beautiful winery surrounded by vineyards.  The Tasting Room Manager had just returned from 9 days in Costa Rica - so he was excited to relive his trip with ...

... of wineries are owned by a couple of large corporations. For instance, both of the wineries we went to (and nearly 30+ other vineyards in the area) are owned by 'Fosters - Australian for beer!!!' After the wine tastings were over (the majority of places ...

... wineries for tasting, having some of the best wine our country has to offer. Here are pics of several trips over the years - including my father's retirement from the Air Force, pics around San Francisco, and of course the amazing vineyards of Napa, ...

... off the beaten path and had a "Tuscan" feel.  The entire tasting was outdoors, and we were able to walk into the grape vineyards.  After visiting the wineries, a bus drove us back to Vallejo, CA.  From there we took a bay cruise back to ...

5 days traveling through wine country....a limo to whisk us around to five vineyards each day....perfect weather, wine, and food.  Why aren't we living there?  Ah yes...money :) Wine country is a 90 minute to two hour drive north of San ...

... could we possibly want? The mustard is currently blooming in the Valleys right now so there is a wonderful yellow tint to the vineyards. We pretended to know a little bit about wine and after swishing (sorry, I'm sure that will come out), smelling (wet ...

... Weingeschmack. Beruehmt ist die Gegend am ehesten fuer ihre Cabernets. Auch nicht mein Favorit. Aber es gibt so derart viele Vineyards and Wineries dort... Testen wollte ich vor allem Pinot Noir. Nach einem kurzen Ausflug durch Napa "City" (Downtown) hab ...