Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Bests of California Wine Country Tour
Many visitors travel to California wine country Tour, the grand grape-growing region north of San Francisco, are drawn by the pledge of idle pleasure, of afternoon tastings and lazy walks through acres where fruit hangs up heavy on the vine. But gourmands know that the enjoyments of America's largest grape-growing region don't just spring from an aged oak barrel, and that a trip to the vineyards means more than a tour of a rural château.
This wine country Tour is less a single location than a series of valleys (in Napa, Sonoma, and Mendocino counties), each with its own cookery character. Wandering through them, travelers can dine at world-renowned restaurants, trial cheese and olive oil from artisan producers, shop at fine cookware stores, attend culinary classes — almost everything the tastes, or taste buds, desire. Of course, it would hardly seem right to make the trip without sipping some fine wines along the way.
Napa Valley Wine Tour restaurant offers his favorites among the nearly endless eating and drinking options in a region that is really many regions in one.