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Frommer's Portable Napa & Sonoma (Frommer's Portable California Wine Country: The Complete Guide to the Napa and Sonoma Valley)

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Publisher Comments:

Put the Best of Napa & Sonoma in Your Pocket

  • With insider tips on tasting, buying, and shipping wine.

  • Outspoken opinions on what's worth your time and what's not.

  • Exact prices, so you can plan the perfect trip no matter what your budget.

  • Off-the-beaten-path experiences and undiscovered gems, plus new takes on top attractions.

  • The best hotels, restaurants, and wineries in every price range, with candid reviews.

Frommer's. The best trips start here.

Experience a place the way the locals do. Enjoy the best it has to offer.

And avoid tourist traps. At Frommer's, we use 150 outspoken travel experts around the world to help you make the right choices.

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Synopsis:

In 2006, there were more than 20 million winery visits in California, producing an estimated tourism revenue of $2 billion.
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About the Author

A native San Franciscan, Erika Lenkert spends her time traipsing through San Francisco and across the globe in search of adventure and great food. She has written for Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, Bride’s, Wine Country Living, San Francisco Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, and Time Out. Her latest work is an entertaining and cooking guide called The Last-Minute Party Girl: Fashionable, Fearless, and Foolishly Simple Entertaining (www.lastminutepartygirl.com), which mixes fun, humor, and recipes into a tasty, useful guide to living large, Bay Area–style.
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Table of Contents

List of Maps.

1 The Best of the Wine Country.

1 The Best Wineries.

2 The Best Winery Tours for First-Timers.

3 The Best Experiences beyond the Wineries.

4 The Best Luxury Hotels & Inns.

5 The Best Moderately Priced Accommodations.

6 The Best Restaurants.

2 The Wine Country Experience (John Thoreen).

1 Introducing Napa Valley & Sonoma Valley.

2 Winemaking 101.

3 How to Wine-Taste like a Pro.

3 Planning Your Trip to the Wine Country.

1 Visitor Information & Maps.

2 When to Go.

3 Money Matters.

Festivities to Plan Your Trip Around: The Wine Country’s Best Annual Events.

4 Getting There.

5 Getting Around.

6 Strategies for Touring the Wine Country.

7 The Ins & Outs of Shipping Wine Home.

Fast Facts: The Wine Country.

4 Napa Valley.

1 Orientation & Getting Around.

Fast Facts: Napa Valley.

2 Touring the Wineries.

3 More to See & Do.

Up, Up & Away.

4 Where to Stay.

5 Where to Dine.

6 Where to Stock Up for a Picnic & Where to Enjoy It.

5 Sonoma Valley.

1 Orientation & Getting Around.

Fast Facts: Sonoma Valley.

2 Touring the Wineries.

3 More to See & Do.

The Super Spa.

4 Where to Stay.

5 Where to Dine.

6 Where to Stock Up for a Picnic & Where to Enjoy It.

6 Northern Sonoma County.

1 Orientation & Getting Around.

Fast Facts: Northern Sonoma.

2 Touring the Wineries.

The Ways of Wine Clubs.

3 More to See & Do.

4 Where to Stay.

5 Where to Dine.

6 Where to Stock Up for a Picnic & Where to Enjoy It.

Appendix: Grape Varietals in the Wine Country.

1 Major Grape Varietals.

2 Lesser-Known Grape Varietals.

Index.

General Index.

Accommodations Index.

Restaurant Index.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780470144367
Publisher:
Frommers
Subject:
United States - West - Pacific (General)
Author:
Lenkert, Erika
Subject:
United States - Pacific - California
Subject:
United States / West / Pacific (AK, CA, HI, NV, OR, WA)
Subject:
Travel: United States / California
Copyright:
2008
Series:
Frommer's Portable Napa & Sonoma Valley
Series Volume:
147
Publication Date:
April 2008
Binding:
Electronic book text in proprietary or open standard format
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
204
Dimensions:
6.69x5.12x.48 in. .34 lbs.
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