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Where should I stay in California Wine Country?
We live in Southern California and would like to take a weekend trip up to wine country. Where is the best place to visit? The best place to stay? Sonoma, Napa, any others? I want to stay in a nice hotel but not spend a fortune. The goal of the weekend is going to be to drink a lot of wine, eat a lot of good food, tour a winery or two, and that’s about it.
Embassy Suites in Napa. They have a full buffet, pond, and a restaurant on the premises in the atrium called Rings. They’ve got the whole thing, heated pool, hot tub, herb gardens, it’s gorgeous. It’s right at 29, 1st Street, and California Blvd. on the entrance to Napa if you’re coming from the south. It’s right off the highway.
For food, there’s also Tres Hermanos downtown, Allegria, Sushi Mambo, Cole’s Chop House, Fazzeratti’s, Don Giovanni. Upvalley there’s Mustard’s and Brix.
For wine tasting, hit the downtown visitor’s association and you can get a card for $20 that allows tastings at the several tasting rooms downtown for a “dime”. Most tasting rooms waive that. That way you can try out a variety of wines and decide where to go for your tours. But you can’t miss Mumms on Silverado Trail. Excellent sparkling wine, beautiful views of the valley, and Ansel Adams photos if you’re into that.
If you’re on you’re way up on 29 towards Oakville, you have to stop at the Oakville Grocery and get a sandwich and browse.
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MISSION WINERY San Jose CALIFORNIA Wine Jug BOTTLE Spring Green with HANDLE $7.64 |
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The Fine Wines of California; Revised Edition $4.39 |
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Vintage 1948 Petri California advertising Wine Selection card wallet calendar  $3.00 |
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Disney California Food Wine Weekends 2006 Pin (NC:46783) $17.90 |
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Wine Spectator’s California Wine by James Laube 1995 $9.00 |
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IMAX Worldwide 3203 Wine Rack Gifts Under $100 $84.64 Contemporary topsy-turvy wine rack featuring metal rungs…. |
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AHeirloom’s California State Cutting Board $46.00 Our signature state shaped cutting boards are designed and manufactured in Brooklyn, NY, by our small housewares company AHeirloom. Each board is drawn, scaled and cut to reflect the true curvature of some of our favorite state borderlines, as precise as possible. To provide maximum durability and longevity our cutting boards are made of strong bamboo constructed with 3-ply formaldehyde free stran… |
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Santa Barbara Design Studio Calendar Girl Wine Glass with Beaded Stem Charm, Miss October $19.98 Celebrate your birthday month in style with a glamorous pin-up girl wine glass! Each elegant glass comes with its own colorful stem charm and is packaged in a special gift box. Glasses are NOT dishwasher safe. The harsh chemicals and high temperatures can damage the paint. We recommend gentle hand washing to clean your glassware…. |
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Back to Black $9.87 Hailed by Newsweek Magazine as a cross between Billie Holiday and Lauryn Hill, British soul singer Amy Winehouse’s U.S. debut, Back To Black hits the US amid a flurry of accolades, radio and TV buzz unprecedented in recent years for a young siren. Her brassy mix of emotive vocals tinged with 60′s girl-group stylings, sly funk, and anguished jazz, sparked the New York Daily News to crown Back To B… |
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Grace $4.19 Resembling at times a soft-sung Robert Plant, Buckley was an intuitive vocalist capable of dizzying arabesques and choir-boy sweetness. He is joined here by a tight band for 10 tracks highlighting his stylistic range–Pearl Jam bluesy on “Eternal Life,” impossibly serene on Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” art-school noisy on “So Real,” Led Zep daring on “Mojo Pin.” Unorthodox, this was the debut of … |
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I Told You I Was Trouble: Amy Winehouse Live From London $10.76 Amy Winehouse scored a UK hit with 2003′s Frank, but her follow-up is another story. Released in 2007, Back to Black blew up worldwide. So, the bouffant belter took her soulful show on the road. It turned out to be a short trip; after only a few dates, she canceled her North American tour due to “severe exhaustion.” Fortunately, I Told You I Was Trouble captures the petite powerhouse before person… |
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Bed and Breakfast Inns: California’s Wine Country [Candlelight Collection] $45.00 Sit down and sip a glass of wine with the owners of these gracious old homes and learn what makes each of the inns so special. Browse through the bedrooms which are elegantly decorated in a romantic motif. Dine with other guests for breakfast and enjoy the homemade gourmet specialties of your hosts. Experience the romance, serenity and hospitality of these Victorian getaways. Explore the surroundi… |
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Gold Rush Bucks: Hunting Blacktails with Pete Shepley in California’s Wine Country $19.99 Few hunters are successful at harvesting these elusive cousins of the mule deer. And, despite the almost impossible conditions opreventing stalks, five California Blacktail are harvested in spot and stalk hunting. Add to this the thrill of hunting feral hogs in country better known for its vineyards and incredible beauty, and you have one of the best hunting videos ever made!… |
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Gardens of Northern California’s Wine Country [VHS] $3.47 … |
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SOG Specialty Knives & Tools FSA-97 Flash I, 1/2 Serrated $57.00 SOG Flash I Partially Serrated Folding Knife. Perhaps one of the coolest knives you’ve ever seen. Forget its wicked-quick blade access, that it handles like a race car on rails, or that it locks up like Alcatraz. It just looks and feels extraordinary. The Flash family of knives feature SOG Assisted Technology (S.A.T.), which employs a powerful piston lock that is easily released with a sliding but… |