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VEEDER/ SACRAMENTO LOS CARNEROS American Canyon TO VALLEJO Not To Scale PAGE 62>64 Not to Scale NVdaytrips-0413_Layout 1 4/25/13 9:55 AM Page 3 ke yessa 47 preferred Napa Valley Preferred Napa Valley Tasting Room Reviews 1313 Main Fine Wine, Retail, Tasting Bar 54 Acacia Vineyard Heritage Wine Trail 11 Arger-Martucci Vineyards 30 Ballentine Vineyards 23 Beaulieu Vineyard Heritage Wine Trail 11 Beringer Vineyards 25 Bourassa Vineyards 53 DAY9 Wine Tasting Trips TRIPS Bravante Vineyards 19 Burgess Cellars 21 Ca’ Momi Napa Valley 61 Calistoga 12-15 Castello di Amorosa 14 Del Dotto Historic Winery & Caves 55 On & Around Howell Mountain 16-21 Del Dotto Venetian Estate 31 St. Helena 22-33 Etude Wines 64 Farella Vineyard 58 Sage Canyon 34-37 Frank Family Vineyards 13 Hagafen Cellars 48 Rutherford/Oakville 38-45 Heritage Wine Trail 11 The Hess Collection 63 Oak Knoll/Stags Leap 46-49 128 Hill Wine Company 33 Kuleto Estate 37 TO Napa 50-56 ERRYESSA Louis M. Martini Winery 28 AND AMENTO Coombsville 57-61 Merryvale Vineyards 27 Mumm Napa 41 Mt. Veeder/Carneros 62-64 Napa Valley Wine Train 51 Newton Vineyards 26 ON THE COVER: COURTESY OF BERINGER VINEYARDS Nichelini Family Winery 36 Pope Valley Winery 17 Porter Family Vineyards 59 Provenance Vineyards Heritage Wine Trail 11 A Publication of Reata Winery 52 RustRidge Ranch & Winery 35 Rutherford Grove Winery 44 Rutherford Hill Winery 39 Rutherford Ranch Winery 40 St. Clement Vineyard 24 Stags’ Leap Winery 47 O Heritage Wine Trail 128 www.WineCountryThisWeek.com Sterling Vineyards 11 Summers Estate Winery 15 669 Broadway, Suite B • Sonoma, CA 95476 P.O. Box 92 • El Verano, CA 95433 Summit Lake Vineyards 18 707-938-3494 707-938-3674 Tayson Pierce Estate Wines 43 Fax ARELLA Tulocay Winery 60 PUBLISHER Mike Giangreco Turnbull Wine Cellars 42 Direct (707) 938-3734 [email protected] . V. Sattui Winery 29 RD PORTER G REEN V FAMILY A LL 4 Viader Vineyards 20 T E Y H MANAGING EDITOR Chandra Grant A V E . Phone 707-938-1783 • Fax 707-938-3674 Whitehall Lane Winery 32/45 [email protected] William Hill Estate 56 SVILLE 57>61 ADVERTISING RoseAnn Trzesniewski REPRESENTATIVE Phone 707-334-1930 • Fax 707-938-3674 OTHER [email protected] Destiny Wine Tours 8/65 OFFICE MANAGER Cathy Gore Calistoga Balloons 7/68 Phone 707-938-3494 • Fax 707-938-3674 Email [email protected] Ca’Momi Napa Valley 71 Napa Valley Bike Tours 9/66 EDITORIAL Introductions by Abigail Zimmerman Napa Valley Wine Train 51/67 CONTRIBUTORS Michelle Baker, Alexandra Charsley, Ronda Giangreco, Charles Neave, The Wine Carriage 10 12 TO SACRAMENTO Josh Stein and Sue Straight, The Wine Wench Fumé Bistro & Bar 49/73 J O Dining Directory 70-73 LOOK FOR US ON FACEBOOK AND TWITTER! Varietals Chart 74-77 Wineries Map 78-79 NVdaytrips-0413_Layout 1 4/25/13 9:55 AM Page 4 Notes on Wine Tasting in The Napa Valley It’s a good idea to plan to visit several wineries as every wine-tasting experience offered is different. With so many distinctive viticultural areas within The Napa Valley, one can easily taste many of the world’s best varietials and winemaking style without learning the region. Listed below are five basic types of tasting experiences. The ex- perience will vary in style from winery to winery! Wine Bar Tasting The most common tasting experience is a Wine Bar Tasting. You step up to the bar where typically a list of wines being poured is displayed. Expect to pay a tasting fee between $10-$40. Some tasting bars will offer you the option to taste a library or reserve wine. Exercising this option increases the fee, but will allow you to taste very unique, old or rare wines. Sit Down Tasting A Sit Down Tasting usually requires an appointment, and there may be a slightly higher fee than a wine bar fee. Seated in an elegant room, you are poured several wines by your winery host. Expect your host to describe the unique characteristics of each wine and how it was made. Table Service Tasting A Table Service Tasting, popular at sparkling wine fa- cilities, is a tasting experience where you are seated at a ery to pour the first round. Then you move to another table and the tastings are brought to you. place within the winery to sample the next wine. This ex- Walk Around Tasting perience continues until all the wines are tasted. A Walk Around Tasting is a combination of a tour and Barrel Tasting a tasting. Your host brings along several bottles of wine on Another popular tasting experience that can be part your tour, and may take you to a garden area of the win- of a tour or a Walk Around is a Barrel Tasting. Your guide takes a “wine thief,” a special siphon placed into a hole in the top of a barrel to extract tasting samples of a matur- ing wine. The sample allows you to taste what the wine is like in the middle of developing its full potential. Why make an appointment? Some wineries are so small that they need to know when you are coming so someone will be there to greet you. Other wineries have permit restrictions that limit the number of guests that can visit each day. Others have sit-down tastings that start and end at specific times. It’s always a good idea to schedule your appointments well in advance of your visit because some of the more popular wineries fill up their appointments weeks in advance.