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Wine Shopping
Festivals, Lodging, Maps, Restaurants, Tours & Travel

Festivals

California
Anderson Valley Pinot Noir Festival (Mendocino)
Hospice du Rhone
(Paso Robles)
Masters of Food & Wine (Carmel)
Monterey Wine Festival
Pinot on the River (Santa Rosa)
Pinot Paradise (Los Gatos)
San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival
World of Pinot Noir
(Pismo Beach)

Canada
Niagra Grape & Wine Festival
(Ontario)
Okanagan Wine Festivals (British Columbia)

Other USA
Atlanta Wine Festival
Finger Lakes Wine Fest (Watkins Glen, NY)

International Pinot Noir Celabration (McMinnville, OR)


Lodging

California
Chateau du Sureau - AAA "5 Diamond" inn, 45 minutes north of Fresno, 20 minutes from the South entrance to Yosemite National Park; absolutely fabulous.

Harris Ranch, an culinary oasis on Interstate 5, midway between Los Angeles and SanFrancisco

Other USA
Beechwood Inn, on Georgia's newly-designated Wine Highway, provides award-winning hospitality in an historic setting.

Europe
Quiet Villa in Siena, Italy
Silver Springs Culinary Retreat Ontario, Canada


Maps

California Specific
Napa Valley
(click on link in upper right corner)
Paso Robles
(click on "Touring" in the left sidebar, then "Wine Tasting Map")
Rutherford Dust Society
Silverado Trail Wineries Association
Sonoma Appellation Maps
(click on "Vineyard Views" at the top middle, then "Educational Resourses" in the left sidebar, then "SCGGA Viticulture Maps")

General
Steve O's California Wine Touring Guide

TasteTour
Vinmaps.com
Wine Zone
Europe
Le Grand Cru Des Calendriers
(labels & maps)

(also see "Travel" category below)


Restaurants
California's Central Valley
Valley Dining Guide

Cafe 225 - Visalia's own Mediterranean Bistro; with wood fire rotisserie specialties.
Chef's Table
- outstanding food, wine, service, atmosphere (Fresno)
Cracked Pepper
- no-frills bistro offers well-chosen menu and winelist, great flavors, generous portions, personal service, moderate prices (Fresno)
Erna's Elderbery House - Mobil "5 Star" restaurant,
45 minutes north of Fresno, 20 minutes from the South entrance to Yosemite National Park.
Fugazzi's (Visalia, Clovis & Fresno) offers a large menu of pastas, sandwiches, wraps, salads (the Best!) in a casual atmosphere
Jon's Bear Club
(Reedley - a
PfW Sponsor) There's just a little bit of magic in the country, but you'll never know unless you visit JBC for all around great food and the very best Shish-kebob in California!

The Lime Lite (Fresno) - Steaks, chops, pastas, seafood & Daily Specials *Sand Dabs are a house specialty*.
Redwood Forest (Chico)
Senses World Cuisine
creative organic tapas (Fresno)
Slate's
- where my favorite chef cooks (Fresno)

Springville Inn
,
a great roadside rest on the way to Sequoia National Park, with terrific food and accommodations
Tahoe Joe's
(Bakersfield, Fairfield, Folsom, Fresno, San Luis Obispo)
The Vineyard
top-notch cuisine featuring locally-sourced ingredients; second-generation family-owned and operated (Madera)
"new". Trelio innovative touches to American menu; most-passionately-selected winelist; fun events
(Clovis)
Vintage Press, an oasis of cosmopolitan in the center of pastoral. Excellent cuisine, gracious service, wine list of incredible breadth and depth. Worth a trip to Visalia, California.

Elsewhere
Nani's Genuine Pasta House & Enoteca Sicula (Jackson Hole, Wyoming)

Wine-dinners.com Ever considered enjoying, in the company of up to ten other wine lovers, rare wines, perfectly matched to dinner at a two- or three-star restaurant in Paris?


Tours & Travel
Virtual Cities
- Bed & Breakfast, Vacation Rentals, etc.
Great Wine Capitals - wine venues by city

California
Extranomical Adventures - (San Francisco & North Coast wine country)
Lake County Resort & Restaurant Ass'n
SteveO's California Wine Touring Guides - non-commercial personal recommendations on wineries, restaurants and lodging
Wine Country Getaways - (Northern California)
Wine Zone - (Napa, Sonoma, Bodega Bay)
Other USA
Discover Adventures combines hiking, biking, canoeing, or kayaking with luxury meals and accommodations for weekend excursions or weeklong adventures in Eastern US wine country ...

Appallachian Adventure
North Carolina Yadkin Valley Excursion
North Georgia Excursion

Finger Lakes Wine Country - travel & tourism guideWashington Wine ToursWine America Trailblazers - online club for travelers to wine country Canada
Crush on Niagra - regularly scheduled & custom tours

Australia & New Zealand
Central Otago Wine Tours (New Zealand)
Travel Envoy - Australia & New Zealand travel guides.

Europe
Austrian Tourist Office (Wine & Culinary, under "Special Interest" bottom of left column)Discover Adventures combines hiking, biking, canoeing, or kayaking with luxury meals and accommodations for weekend excursions or weeklong wine adventures in France ...

Dordogne Adventure with Chef Joël Antunes
Loire Valley with Master Sommelier Phillipe

DuVine Tours - Bike Tours in France
French Waterways - Luxury Canal Boat Tours
French Wine Explorers - (small group & custom tours)
Holiday Seekers
Magica Tours (Franciacorta, Italy)
O-Chateau (wine tasting in Paris, tours)
"new". Tannin - (wine events and tours in England, Portugal, & Spain)
"new". Vinophoria (wine tours and luxury vacations in Spain)
Wine Cellar in Siena
Wine Holidays
- bus tours departing from England, led by Stephen Barrett
Wine Pleasures - (Spain's Priorat & Penedés regions)

South America
Montanamar Tours (Chile)
Robertson Wine Tours - (Argentina
)
Wine Tours by Magda - (Argentina and Chile
)


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