If you’ve never been to Napa Valley or Sonoma before (or even if you have), Wine Road Weekend is the perfect time to visit.

Last year Dan and I joined our friend, Katharine, in the valley for some barrel tasting. The weather was perfection, and getting to hop from winery to winery was a blast. Each participant planned events to entertain their guest; everything from live music, to pulled pork sliders and other food, to multiple barrel tasting.

*please excuse the head on a stick. That is our friend and Kat’s husband, Saad, who couldn’t attend at the last minute. He was there in spirit and picture!*

Here’s the places we visited while in wine country last year:

Hotel: Solage Calistoga

Restaurants: Rustic, Sol Bar, Fremont Diner, Calistoga Ranch

Spa: Solage Spa for a Mudbath

Car Service: NVTT

Vineyards: A. Rafanelli, Bella, Coppola, Lynmar, Hook and Ladder, Seghesio, Round Pond, Alpha Omega, Pahlmeyer

And for some other info, check out some of my previous posts on wine consumption :)

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a taste of the valley.

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