Frommer's Portable California Wine Country
Chapter One
The Best of the Wine Country
Whether you're on a budget or blowing your annual bonus, there's
no way around it: A Wine Country experience epitomizes indulgence.
Literally all that's expected of you is to eat, drink, relax-and
then do it all over again. The rest-wine tastings, spa treatments,
hot-air balloon rides, canoe trips, horseback tours-is mere icing on
an already idyllic cake. In fact, you don't even have to like wine to
love the Wine Country; anyone who enjoys lounging in a hammock
on a warm summer's day will succumb because the Wine Country
is just that: the country. The verdant expanses of rolling hills patterned
with grape-garnished trellises, hued with mustard and wildflowers,
and dotted with farmers plowing the soil and vintners
tending to their vines is country life at its picture-perfect best.
Of course, there's a whole lot more: wineries both great and small
producing some of the world's finest wines, nationally renowned
chefs serving exceptional cuisine, luxury resorts, boutique shopping,
and soothing mineral hot springs. Yes, the ... read full excerpt from: Frommer's Portable Napa & Sonoma (Frommer's Portable #147) ebook
