California - Napa & Sonoma Wine Country (PDF Chapter)

America’s premier viticulture region has earned its reputation among the world’s best. Rolling hills, dotted with century-old oaks, turn the color of lion’s fur under the summer sun and swaths of vineyards carpet hillsides as far as the eye can see.

• taste California’s biggest and boldest red wines and fall under their intoxicating spell in the Napa Valley, then grab snacks downtown at Napa’s Oxbow Public Market
• maps
• feast in Northern California’s greatest food town, Healdsburg; then, wallet permitting, hit up exciting new restaurant, SingleThread
• transport
• submerge yourself in a volcanic-ash mud bath at a fabulous Calistoga hot-springs resort, then sleep in a yurt in Bothe-Napa Valley State Park
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Napa Valley, Napa Valley Wineries, Napa, Yountville, Oakville & Rutherford, St Helena, Calistoga & Around, Sonoma Valley, Sonoma Valley Wineries, Sonoma & Around, Glen Ellen & Kenwood, Russian River Area, Russian River Wineries, Se-bastopol, Occidental & Around, Guerneville & Around, Santa Rosa, Healdsburg & Around.