Travel Guides For Your Best Nappa* Valley Wine Tours

Napa Weekends is a collection of travel guides for the Napa Wine Country weekend visitor.  Each Travel Guide contains all the information you'll need to enjoy a great weekend in the famous Napa Valley including hotels, restaurants, best Napa valley wine tours, best Napa valley wine tasting, activities and shopping. 

Napa Weekend Travel Guides cover most popular areas of Napa Valley plus a few off the beaten track places the tourists never find including:
 Napa wine tours of
St. Helena, the Silverado Trail,
Calistoga, 
Yountville

Take the Guesswork Out of Your Napa Wine Country Visit

Visiting Napa can be a wonderful and exciting experience or it can be a confusing mess of traffic, crowds,  and pricey but disappointing tasting rooms.  Napa Weekend Travel Guides represents hundreds of hours of Napa wineries visits, weeks of hotel stays, and many, many restaurant meals to bring you only and best that Napa has to offer.  All travel guides are designed for a two day visit but feel free to combine them for a longer visit. 


Our Point Of View

There are some truly awesome tasting and tour experiences to be had in the Napa Valley or you can just try to cram as many tastings as possible, spend a lot of money, fight the crowds, and try some pretty disappointing wines.  Our view is to capture those awesome experiences (duh...).  Of course you want to taste great wine, but we've found that the "Wine Country Experience" is about touring caves, wine and food pairings, conversations with the winemaker, and those unforgettable picnics above the valley.  By using our Guides you can find unique and memorable visits and some great wines to bring back and share with your vacation stories.  All you have to do is read on and PLAN.

Plan Your Weekend In Advance

Planning your visit is a must.  Napa is a busy and sometimes crowded place.  To get the most out of your weekend, make reservations well in advance for hotels, restaurants, winery tours, and wineries that require appointments.  Feel free to cut and paste each guide for easy printing and take-along on your Napa weekend.   Also check out the local happenings in case there's some great music or events you'd like to attend.  Go to:  www.napavalleycalendar.com/  or www.napachamber.com/calendar.html  or www.napavalleyregister.com/ to see what's going on during your visit.

Take or Rent Bikes

If you enjoy biking, consider bringing or renting bikes.  Many of the wineries can be easily accessed by bike and there's no traffic or parking to worry about.  Wineries will be happy to hold your wine purchases for later pick-up on request.  St. Helena and the Silverado Trail or particularly good for a bike tour. 
Napa Bike Tours at www.napavalleybiketours.com/ can provide first class bikes or take you on one of there outstanding bike tours where the wineries are chosen for you, you can travel in a group and the wineries are expecting your visit and have arranged your tastings.

Napa Wineries Tasting Fees & "By Appointment Only"

Most Napa wineries charge from $5 to as high as $30 for wine tasting and tours.  Premium wines can range as high as $40 to $50for tasting.  Just another reason to choose your visits wisely and find the best tasting experience.  Many "Appointment Only" wineries don't charge a tasting fee but it is expected that you will be purchasing wine.  These wineries often provide the most personal, informative, and quality wine tasting experience.  We have included many wineries in our tour that require making appointments, don't shy away from these.  Visiting these wineries is often the best experience of any Napa tasting.  We've included e-mail links and information to wineries who accept e-mail appointments to make the process easier for you. 

Complimentary (Free) Wine Tasting Still Exists

There are still wineries who offer complimentary tasting for non-premium wines.  We've included some as a part of our weekend wine tours both for the experience and to take the bite out of the more expensive tours and tastings that are also suggested.  In addition, there's a complete list of all the wineries in the Napa Valley who offer free tastings.  See our web page, "Napa for Free" to get the entire list.

Sonoma Wine Country Travel Guides Also Available

We also offer Travel Guides for Sonoma Valley wine tours.  Sonoma has long been treated as a step child to Napa's booming wine industry but Sonoma offers a very different and very personal wine tasting experience for the wine country visitor.  Our Wine Country Travel Guides detail a self-guided wine tour for each of Sonoma's three wine growing regions:  Sonoma,Perfect Day Kenwood Perfect Day, and Glen Ellen Perfect Day.  We encourage you to visit our Sonoma website: www.go-winetasting.com and use our guides to visit Sonoma Valley.

Enjoy Your Napa Weekend!