Festivals
California
Anderson Valley Pinot Noir Festival (Mendocino)
California Wine Festival (Orange County & Santa Barbara)
Garagiste Festival (Paso Robles, 2011 inaugural event)
Hospice du Rhone (Paso Robles)
Monterey Wine Festival
Pinot on the River (Santa Rosa)
Pinot Paradise (Los Gatos)
San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival
World of Pinot Noir (PismoBeach)
Canada
Niagra Grape & Wine Festival (Ontario)
Okanagan Wine Festivals (British Columbia)
Other USA
Finger Lakes Wine Fest (Watkins Glen, NY)
International Pinot Noir Celabration (McMinnville, OR)
Wine South (Atlanta, GA)
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 San Francisco
Other USA
Beechwood Inn, on Georgia's newly-designated Wine Highway, provides
award-winning hospitality in an historic setting.
Restaurants
California's Central Valley
Cafe 225 - Visalia's own Mediterranean Bistro; with wood fire rotisserie specialties.
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*.
Pismo's Coastal Grill - celebrating California's Central Coast, where wine country meets the sea
The Vineyard top-notch cuisine featuring locally-sourced ingredients;
second-generation family-owned and operated (Madera)
Trelio innovative 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
Food & Wine in London Brian St. Pierre is an American writer who's lived in
London the better part of two decades and one of the very few restaurant critics who also rates wines
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? |
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Maps
California Specific
Metskers Maps winegrowing region and vineyard maps
NapaMapa wine tasting trip planner (new and nicely done, expected to improve)
Paso Robles
Rutherford Dust Society
Silverado Trail Wineries Association (click link in upper right corner)
Sonoma Appellation Maps
General
Steve O's California Wine Touring Guide
VinMaps
Tours & Travel
California
Aallin Limo Service - Temecula Wine Tours (San Diego)
California Winery Advisor - great info, maps, videos; search over
700 wineries by ambiance, fees, wines, etc. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Extranomical Adventures - (San Francisco & North Coast wine country)
SteveO's California Wine Touring Guides - non-commercial personal
recommendations on wineries, restaurants and lodging
Wine Country Getaways - (Northern California)
Wine Country Tour Shuttle - (Napa, Sonoma)
Wine Zone - (Napa, Sonoma, Bodega Bay)
Other USA
Finger Lakes Wine Country - travel & tourism guide
Washington Wine Tours
Canada
Crush on Niagra - regularly scheduled & custom tours
South America
Mendoza Holidays - (Argentina & Chile)
Montanamar Tours (Chile)
Pulp Travel - (Mendoza, Argentina)
Robertson Wine Tours - (Argentina
Australia & New Zealand
Central Otago Wine Tours (New Zealand)
Europe
Austrian Tourist Office (click "Dream Vacations"tab, then "Wine & Gourmet
" from drop-down menu)
Bordeaux Wine Experience - first-class tours and excellent information
Cooking in Tuscany - also wine classes & tours
Digngo - bike tours of Alsace, Burgundy, Loire
Excursions in Tuscany - also wine & cooking classes
French Wine Explorers - small group & custom tours
French Tour Company - tours of Languedoc/Roussillon
Love Umbria - tours of the Italian wine region
Magica Tours (Franciacorta, Italy)
O-Chateau wine tasting in Paris, tours
Tasting Italy excursions, classes, etc.
The Tasting Quarter - corporate wine tastings and European wine tours for
corporate entertainment
Travel Tuscany
Veronissima wine tours in Verona
Vinophoria wine tours and luxury vacations in Spain
Wine Pleasures - (Spain's Priorat & Penedés regions)
Worldwide
DuVine Tours - Bike Tours in wine countries all over the World
Great Wine Capitals - wine venues by city
Virtual Cities - Bed & Breakfast, Vacation Rentals, etc.
Worldwide Wine Tours - (Argentina, Chile, South America, Ausralia, New
Zealand, South Africa); site includes lots of good information for each region about production, marketing, and touring |
