Blogs from Napa Valley, California, United States, North America - page 4

NAPA VALLEY WINE COUNTRY We spent a wonderful day yesterday touring the Napa Valley, tasting wine and soaking in the sights. The tremedous acreage of grapes growing and number of different Vineyards was a real treat to see. Our tour started in the trendy town of Napa itself. We ate a really nice wood-fired pizza and sipped wine at the completely redone Napa Mill Complex. Formerly a working Mill and Grain Elevator it has taken on new life as a commercial shopping and dining development. After leaving the cute town we did a tasting at one of our favorite labels, Stag's Leap Wine Cellars which was over on the Silverado Wine Trail. Crossing back toward the west we passed miles of scenic vineyards and farmland as we continued North along Hwy 29. A real highlight was ... read more

We're staying in a beautiful B&B called Cedar Gables Inn, which is English style, full of plush carpets, wood panels and antique furniture. Our room even has its own secret staircase that emerges into the lounge. Very cool! We started the day with a great breakfast of homemade scones, a fruit platter and their signature bread and butter souffle with bacon. Definitely needed to line the stomach before setting off. We have been out touring the valley all day on the Wine Valley Shuttle, who took us and 8 other people around to 5 different wineriers. We started at Castello di Amorosa, a huge Italian castle that was actually moved to Napa from Tuscany! We sampled 10 wines, red, white, rose and dessert and explored the castle, which has its own Catholic church and tower. Our ... read more

We have landed in the wine capital of North America. Welcome to the Napa Valley. First regret, we should have stay way longer in the region. For a first, we should not have limited oursefve to the Napa Valley istself. We arrived here from the north, crossing first the Alexander and Knight Valley. These are not Napa, but they are not less beautiful than the better known south neighbour of Napa. So to the north you've got the Alexander Valley, and to the east you've got Sonoma and Petaluma. Sadly, we didn't stop in the Alexander Valley, we just crossed this beautiful place. It was pretty late after a long day on the road, and the little ones were more than ready to reach our hotel. Next regret, we didn't had the time to go to ... read more

Today was another very fun day in S.F, well. . Napa valley is where we spent most of the day, but it started in San Fran. It started with Mom getting the times confused and waking me up at 6 a.m, which was hour before I was set to get up. A little groggily I woke up and then realized what was going on, but I enjoyed being up well before I had to because it gave me time to try and figure out if I could upload my videos from the day before onto the blog via my phone, but sadly it won't let me so I have to wait until I am around a computer to do so.  After a quick breakfast we set off to catch up with our Napa Valley tour. As we headed out ... read more