PRACTICAL WANDERLUST
What’s a weekend in California without a bottle of wine?? California makes some of the best wine in the world thanks to the perfect combination of hot daytime sun and cold marine fog and wind.
Rolling vineyards. Misty mountains. Opulent castles. Napa Valley is California’s most iconic wine country – and for good reason! Napa wineries are the glittering heart of California’s globally-celebrated wine industry.
Located just an hour north of San Francisco, Napa’s classic wine country views, Michelin-starred chefs, and imaginative wine-tasting experiences attract wine lovers and inspire connoisseurs.
How many wine country getaways in California are also charming coastal towns? Mendocino is known for it’s world-class wine and stunning coastal views, and Fort Bragg is best known for Glass Beach.
Mendocino is famous for its wine tasting! While you’ll find plenty of wine in town, Highway 128 is known as The Wine Road and is home to countless wineries. We suggest a stop at Navarro Vineyards & Winery for wine & cheese.
Situated between the Salinas River and the Santa Lucia Coastal Range, Paso Robles (known locally as simply “Paso”) is one of the world’s leading wine regions. It’s been described to us (many times, mostly by locals) as “what Napa was like 30 years ago.”
If you’re a foodie and you love drinking (um, us) you’ll definitely want to spend a weekend in Paso Robles. There are breweries and distelleries and buckets of wine!
Healdsburg, a little town just north of San Francisco, is close to Napa and Sonoma. And like Napa and Sonoma, Healdsburg is home to loads of vineyards and tasting rooms – the perfect place to spend a day wine tasting delicious local California wine.
But unlike Napa and Sonoma, many of the wine tasting rooms in Healdsburg are walking distance from one another, and many of them are complimentary! (Yes, y’all, FREE WINE.)