Category: TOURING NAPA
Winery Recommendations: Instagram-worthy Visits in Napa Valley
Del Dotto Estate Winery & Caves: A palace inspired by Venice, with marble floors, Italian art and a candlelit cave lined with barrels, so every corner looks like a scene from Europe. The moody cave light, with wine...
Winery Recommendations: 5 Iconic Wineries/Vineyards of Napa Valley
Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars: Its 1973 Cabernet beat Bordeaux’s top châteaux at the 1976 Judgment of Paris and put Napa Cabernet on the world map. Opus One: A 1979 partnership between Robert Mondavi and Bordeaux’s Baron Philippe de...
Winery Recommendations: Napa from Above, Tasting with a View
Joseph Phelps VineyardsTucked into the hills east of St. Helena, Joseph Phelps offers one of the valley’s most serene places to sip. Its terrace looks out over sweeping vineyards to the rolling hills beyond. Settle in as the...
Winery Recommendations: Where Vines Meet Blossoms, Wine in Gardens
Caymus VineyardsCaymus welcomes guests into its newly remodeled tasting room, which opens onto a garden alive with native flowers. Poppies, sages and wild grasses sway in the Rutherford breeze, and hummingbirds and butterflies drift from bloom to bloom....
Winery Recommendations: Incredible Cabernets at great Value from Napa Valley
Napa Valley has long belonged to Cabernet Sauvignon, and across its sunlit floor and folded hillsides, countless cellars pour bottles worthy of the name. Among them, we return again and again to three: Rombauer, near St. Helena; Sequoia...
Winery Recommendations: Never the Same Sip Twice: Trefethen, Round Pond and Louis M. Martini.
Trefethen Family VineyardsIn the heart of the Oak Knoll District, Trefethen welcomes guests to its historic 1886 Eshcol winery, Napa’s only surviving 19th-century wooden gravity-flow winery. Taste elegant, estate-grown wines surrounded by gardens and vines. Its Chardonnay once...
Winery Recommendations: All about the wines and less about the crowd
Beyond the grand estates, some of Napa’s most memorable tastings happen in quieter rooms. ZD Wines, Honig and Goosecross are all family-run wineries with intimate tasting spaces, where the focus stays on what is in the glass rather...
Winery Recommendations: Taste of Napa while staying true to Old World Bordeaux
While much of Napa Valley has become famous for bold, ripe, fruit-forward Cabernet, a select group of wineries quietly follows a different path. The vineyards below stay true to the classic Old World style of Bordeaux, where balance...
Sequoia Grove Winery, wine and food parings in Rutherford, Napa Valley Travel Tips
Sequoia Grove Winery 8338 Saint Helena Highway, Napa, CA 94558 Why we found ourselves again at Sequoia Grove Winery? Because it is just that enjoyable each time. Executive Chef Britny did a wonderful job rotating her tasting menu...
What is so Great about Napa Valley and its Wines?
A Mosaic of SunlightNapa Valley is only about 30 miles long, yet it holds an astonishing range of growing conditions. Sheltered between two mountain ranges, its benches, slopes and side canyons each catch the sun at a different...
