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Napa & Sonoma Wine
Country
Why Go?
America's premier viticulture region has earned its reputation among the world's best.
Despite hype about Wine Country style, it's from the land that all Wine Country lore
springs. 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. Where they
end, lush redwood forests follow serpentine rivers to the sea.
There are over 600 wineries in Napa and Sonoma Counties, but it's quality, not quantity,
that sets the region apart - especially in Napa, which competes with France and doubles as
an outpost of San Francisco's top-end culinary scene. Sonoma prides itself on agricultural
diversity, with goat-cheese farms, you-pick-em orchards and roadside fruit stands. Plan to
get lost on back roads, and, as you picnic atop sun-dappled hillsides, grab a hunk of earth
and know firsthand the thing of greatest meaning in Wine Country.
