A Napa Valley wine tour can give you a behind the scenes look at how your favorite wines are made.
Some of the top wines in the world come from grapes grown in California's Napa Valley. Every year, tourists descend on this wine-lover's paradise to see where their favorite wines are grown, and to taste the range of wines produced at area vineyards. Wine tours in this area of California were popularized by the 2004 movie "Sideways". If you are thinking about taking a wine tour of Napa Valley vineyards, there are a number of bus tours that enable you to drink your fill and not worry about having to drive.
Wine Country Tour Shuttle
The Wine Country Tour Shuttle operates an nine hour tour of a number of Napa Valley wineries. Guests leave from San Francisco in the morning, and over the course of the day visit four vineyards for tastings and tours, and enjoy a scenic picnic lunch. Guests on the shuttle visit the Andretti Winery, Domain Chandon, the Black Stallion Winery, and enjoy a picnic lunch at V. Sattui winery and food market. The tour concludes with a 50 ferry cruise through the Bay Area to return you to San Francisco. The tour runs both weekdays and weekends, and alternate wineries are sometime scheduled.
Wine Shuttle
1 The Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA 94111
415-513-5400
winecountrytourshuttle.com
Beau Wine Tours
Beau Wine Tours offer limo, limo van, and limo bus tours to numerous Napa Valley wineries, with a catered gourmet picnic lunch from the famous Girl & the Fig Restaurant included in the price of every tour. The vehicle picks you up at your hotel, where you enjoy a free glass of champagne and get to know your fellow passengers. The bus visits four boutique wineries per tour, which runs for about eight hours. The wineries visited differ each day, with vineyards visited in the past including the Andretti Winery, Mumm, Robert Craig, and Chimney Rock.
Beau Wine Tours
1680 Pear Tree Lane
Napa, CA 94558
707-257-0887
beauwinetours.com
California Wine Tours
California Wine Tours offer a number of itineraries serviced by their "green" fleet of luxury hybrid vehicles, some of which include wireless Internet. Both group tours and privately-arranged outings are available. The company's public Napa tour itinerary includes five wineries: Flora Springs, Alpha Omega, V. Sattui, Black Stallion and William Hill. Tours depart from 10:30 am, and patrons wrap up their tastings by 3:30. Tours to the Sonoma Valley are also available.
California Wine Tours
4075 Solano Ave.
Napa, CA 94558
800-294-6386
californiawinetours.com
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