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Beringer Vineyards
What is a good moderately-price hotel to stay at in Napa Valley or near the area?
My bf and I have finally settled on going to Napa for vacation in August. We just are looking for a moderately priced hotel to stay (under $200). We are looking at Gaia. Is it too far outside Napa? Any other suggestions?
How far are Napa and Sonoma away from each other? Where are most of the vineyards? We are looking at Sterling, Beringer and doing the wine train tour. Are there any beaches nearby? We are flying in to San Fransico. Is 5 days/4 nights too long?
We plan on doing the wine tasting tours and vineyards; we’d like spend some time at a spa. So any advice or suggestions on hotels/things to do would be greatly appreciated.
Wife and I stayed at the Jack London Lodge in Sonoma (Glen Ellen) last July. Reasonably priced for the area. Previously we stayed at Holiday Inn Express in Santa Rosa and Holiday Inn Express Sebastopol.
The drive from Sonoma to Napa is 30 – 45 minutes depending on the route you take. It’s helpful to have a GPS but a set of maps from Google Maps will do just as well. Be aware that some of the routes between the valleys come through mountains and are narrow, twisty roads.
There are wineries in both Sonoma and Napa Valleys. More in Napa, but they are also more ‘commercial’ – more crowded, more expensive tastings, and more ostentatious (approaching Disney Land artificiality in some cases).
The Wine Train is nice – we did it at noon, and it pretty much filled the day. Our favorite wineries include Chateau St. Jean (Kenwood); Chateau Monteleone, Calistoga; Clos Pegase, Calistoga; Castelo di Amorosa, St. Helena; and Rutherford Hill, Rutherford But some of the smaller, less popular wineries are just as good and much less crowded.
There are beaches but they are a couple of hours away. Be aware that the water is cold!
You have more than enough time – actually, my wife and I tend to only allow a couple of days in wine country, spending the rest of our week in the Bay area doing things in San Francisco and some of the peninsula towns.
Beringer_Slow_Mix, Beringer Vineyards, Napa Valley, California, USA
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1996 Beringer St. Helena Home Vineyard St. Helena Cabernet Sauvignon … |
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1997 Beringer St. Helena Home Vineyard, Limited Release Cabernet Sauvignon (etched) 92 points Robert Parker: “The 1997 Cabernet Sauvignon St. Helena Home Vineyard offers copious quantities of blackberry/cassis fruit, in addition to tannin and structure. Spicy, with outstanding ripeness, a big, chewy mid-section, and intriguing roasted coffee and black currant flavors, this will be a large-scaled Cabernet to drink during its first 15 years of life.” (12/2000)… |
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Beringer Vineyards White Zinfandel 2010 1.50L This wine is from United States, California region. The coordination between viticulture and winemaking teams is essential when choosing fruit, to achieve the optimum level of flavor and balance in the wine. The vineyards selected for the California Collection wines are bathed in warm sunshine the majority of the day, to yield the most ripe, sun-kissed fruit flavors in the grapes. NON-VARIETAL ROS… |
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Beringer Vineyards Merlot Bancroft Ranch Howell Mountain 2005 750ML This wine is from United States, California region, Napa County sub-region and Howell Mountain appellation. Beringer’s Bancroft Ranch vineyard is located at an elevation of 1,800 feet on Howell Mountain, a growing area with well-drained volcanic soils. In 1984, Howell Mountain became the first area within the Napa Valley appellation to be declared a separate viticultural area (AVA) for the distinc… |
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Beringer Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley 2006 750ML This wine is from United States, California region, Napa County sub-region and Napa Valley appellation. CABERNET SAUVIGNON Wine… |
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