Napa Valley Wine Tours

Napa Valley is the American resources of food and wine. Expose the wealthy tradition and the specialties of family-owned and universe-renowned wine peoples. The World famed Napa Valley is home to over 250 wineries, and each has its personal sole taste and attraction. Spend all day inspecting some of the past riches they are as the Christian Brothers Estate that is at present home to the Culinary Institute of America, Beringer Vineyards, the oldest endlessly in use vineyard in Napa Valley, the significant fireside winery that is currently home to the Niebaum-Coppola Estate or the Robert Mondavi vineyard, certainly a basis in American winemaking.

Winery employees in the Carneros area can help out you to grip how a wine's color, feel, flavor and smell are demonstrated in the teeth etching sharpness of a steel fermented chardonnay or the soft flexibility of a typical pinot noir. Immerse yourself in the world-class wines, fine dining, abundant cultural venue and enamoring beauty that define the area and add to the Napa Valley being the same with heaven on ground.

You may find a more friendly wine practice by visiting the little and additional personal wineries where the opening may present itself to converse with the wine maker or owner. The town of Calistoga with its medical waters is the home of frequent rejuvenating spas with all your much loved treatments. Call the old-fashioned towns of Oakville, Yountville and Rutherford that are packed with galleries wherever the arts disclose the words of limited artists and restaurants where you can practice cooking as only the nation's most famous chefs can prepare.

Grgich Hills - Vineyard Tour

The Wine Train get there at Grgich Hills
Enjoy a foodie with three course lunch in an stylish dining car as you trip northbound during the Napa Valley. Land at Grgich Hills Winery for a one hour personal tour and tasting controlled by a associate of the Grgich Hills organization. Re-board the train for the dessert course in our plentifully restored 1915 Pullman Lounge Car as you start back to Napa Station. From Sunday to Friday Lunch Trains only. Every one of our vineyard tours want reasonable stair climbing and standing for complete periods. They support guests who may have trouble performing these two activities to believe the usual Lunch Packages.

Napa Valley Wine Tasting

The beautiful Napa Valley, which lies to the north of San Francisco Bay, produces some of California’s greatest Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Sauvignon-Merlot-Cabernet Franc blends - powerful, full-bodied wines with the potential to age 10 years, but with suppleness and fruitiness too. The region has also produced some impressively crisp, elegant, yet richly buttery and complex Chardonnays.

Hestan Winery, the rising star of Napa Valley, produced its first vintage in 2002 and was named by Wine Spectator as Napa’s Impressive Newcomers, listed among the 10 names "you should know and search out in your quest for the best".

South African Wine Company Goes Global with U.S. Help

Cape Town, South Africa — Loukie Vlok, the winemaker of South Africa’s Koopmanskloof Vineyards, points to six bottles on a table — three reds, two whites, and one rosé. “These wines are going to be known around the world and make us rich,” he says.

By “us,” Vlok means primarily the 86 black farmworkers who collectively own one of the six Koopmanskloof farms and 26 percent of Koopmanskloof Vineyards, the winemaking and retailing firm. He also refers to the mostly black businessmen who have a controlling interest in the vineyards and to Steve Smit, the aging owner of the five other Koopmanskloof farms.

The Koopmanskloof lands and winery, located in the lush Stellenbosch region north of Cape Town, have produced wines for more than 100 years, but the people who used to drink them knew them by other names. The wine was sold in bulk; buyers bottled it and put their own labels on the bottles.

“Mr. Smit was not interested in marketing. He was only interested in the quality of the production. I told Mr. Smit that other people put their names on our wines and make extra money from that. I told him that we could do that too,” Vlok said.

The launch of Koopmanskloof wines under its own labels came in 2005. That event was the outcome of a convergence of factors, the prime one being the South African government’s drive to place 30 percent of the country’s farms under black ownership by 2014. The government is steering clear of the forceful land-seizure policy taken by Zimbabwe, a policy blamed for devastating agriculture and causing famine in Zimbabwe.