Monday 20 May 2013

Best California Vacations: Napa Wineries

By Philip Vonwrede


Napa is a well renowned city in the world thanks to the wine region in the Napa Valley. Even though most Napa wineries are usually located at the outskirts of city limits, production of wine in Napa has been there since 1800s. according to history, John Patchett was the first wine maker in the city and worked along Charles Krug in 1858 at a placed located close to the present day town of Fuller Park. Despite the fact that that making of wine at Napa city is conducted in areas away from the city, wine tasting is still possible within the town. In fact, tasting rooms and wine bars in the city are not less than 20 and there are still others located on the way. Nevertheless, most Napa wineries have limited production capacity and can not host a lot of visitors at the wineries. As such, the trend has been the shifting of wine tasting rooms into the City in order to accommodate a large number of wine lovers.

I really like Stags' leap winery. In 1893, Stag's Leap Winery started wine making on a massive 249 acre of land. It is presently maintained by Foster's group and in 2005, Stag's Leap Winery experienced a major transformation with hiring Robert Brittan. Their trademark wine variety is the Petit Syrah.

I have many memoreies at Darioush Winery. The Bordeaux styled wines produced by Darioush makes the winery quite among Napa wineries, which has been implementing the old labor- intensive production techniques, management of micro-vineyard and embracement of technology in wine crafting. The winery boasts of utmost quality and precision wines under Steve Devitt, a winemaker. Darioush Khaledi directs activities at the winery. The visitor center at Darioush Winery offers a top class facility where visitors enjoy an awesome one-on-one wine tasting experience.

Domaine Carneros Winery spares no expense. Situated at Carneros, Domaine Carneros Winery exudes superiority and conventional wine-making methods in the state of California. Built from the ground up by Champagne Taittinger in 1987, the winery has been touted as the pioneer in the whole region as well as being one of the most excellent panoramic views. The promenade area together with the chateau that you could find at the front is open for anyone and everyone daily, from 10 am to 6pm. It offers services such as wine tastings and tours of the estate.

Looking for that special winery, try Artesa Vineyards & Winery. Artesa Vineyards & Winery is arguably the most beautiful one in the whole of Napa wineries. It rests right on top of the hill and gets a clear 360-degree view of all of nature's creations. It is no wonder that locals as well as the visitors have dubbed this as the 'Carneros jewel'. It simply doesn't have any other to compare to.

As a Cab wine lover, I always look forward to my Robert Sinskey Winery visits. Managed by Robert Sinskey, Robert Sinskey winery boasts a variety of signature blends in their arsenal: the Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, together with commander Zinskey and Merlot. This wine estate produces top notch excellence and has been received well by wine lovers all around the country.




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