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Wine
Country & Redwoods
One-Day Tour. The California Wine Country is a little
more than an hour north from San Francisco. Our Wine
Country & Muir Woods tour combines a wonderful detour
over the Marin Headlands into Muir Woods, a beautiful
valley filled with Coastal Redwood Sequoia trees, the
tallest species of trees in the world. You’ll spend
about an hour there, and then, continuing northward,
your guide will tell you some Wine Country history, and
you’ll spend a relaxing afternoon in California’s
famous Wine Country. We usually visit 3 small boutique
wineries in the historic Sonoma Valley and Carneros Regions,
spending 30 minutes to 1 hour at each one, and we’ll
make sure you have time for a good lunch. Free tastings
and at least 5 delicious wines are offered at each winery!
This tour is ideal for both the wine tasting novice and
the more experienced connoisseur with a rack full of
fine wines, and who also will appreciate the wonders
of nature in the Redwood forest.
Wine
Country One-Day Tours by Bus. Starting at 9 AM, our
Wine
Country Bus Tour begins by crossing the Golden
Gate Bridge, and it takes about an hour to enter the
beautiful Sonoma Valley, where the wine industry began
in California in 1857. You will start your tasting
in the Carneros Appellation, where Pinot Noir & Chardonnay
grapes thrive, and visit two wineries before lunch:
one specializes in Italian wines, and the other in
sparkling wines. The bus will then take you to a quaint
Yountville mall, restored from an historic winery,
where you can buy a tasty lunch and even add in an
optional wine tasting session (cost not included)!
Next, you will visit one more winery tasting room,
and then start the return to San Francisco and cross
the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, which is over
7 miles long, and has great views of the spectacular
downtown skyline and the wharves.
Wine
Lover’s
Tour. The Wine Lover's Tour is not just for “Lovers”,
but it can’t hurt to take a special someone to
see the beautiful scenery of California’s premier
wine valleys. You can go to both Sonoma and Napa, and
visit four to six boutique wineries that are less frequently
visited by tourists. This trip will provide the opportunity
to sample wines from various grape-growing regions such
as Rutherford, Oakville, St. Helena, Yountville, Stags
Leap, Los Carneros, Sonoma Valley, and Glen Ellen. This
is a perfect tour for true wine connoisseurs and those
that want to discover incredible California wines. Some
wineries may offer complimentary tastings, but many charge
a fee ranging from $5 to $10 (or $25 to the sky!) and
winery tours may also be extra. The tour is customizable,
and we can take requests within time and distance constraints.
Wine
Country Charters. Extranomical Adventures offers Wine
Country Charters that are customizable to fit your
personal interests, so if you have a list of wineries,
we’ll work with
you to put together a tour that works, within time and
distance constraints. There are hundreds of wineries
to choose from and a vast selection of options for lunch
and/or dinner, a combination trip of Muir Woods with
Wine Country, and over night packages. These charters
are ideal for business groups, families, or private parties.
Please call 1-866-231-3752 for further information.
California
Wine Tour Special Offers. Extranomical
Adventures is pleased to offer special discounted California wine
tours, luxury California Wine tours, and combination California
wine country tours.
Winery Tour Stops
Like
snowflakes, no two wine tours are exactly alike! Which
winery we visit is determined by several criteria. California’s
Wine Country is actually almost the whole state, but much
of the state is too far away. In our many years touring,
we have gained a wealth of experience and compiled a list
of wineries that are within a short distance, are friendly
and do a good presentation, and have other attractions,
such as good food or a great walking tour. Oh and the wine
is good, too! Our list might change as we make new discoveries,
or an old friend changes ownership. We can’t visit
all of these in one day, but here is a list of “possibles”,
just to whet your appetite.
View a List of California
Wineries that are
possible stops on our various tours.
The Golden Gate
Bridge
On many of our Wine Country Tours, we travel across the
Golden
Gate Bridge. We found a less frequently visited
viewpoint to get one of the most spectacular views of the
Golden
Gate Bridge and the City of San Francisco that makes
for incredible photo opportunities.
California Wine
Country
Almost half of California’s 1400+ wineries are located
in our 2 premier wine producing regions, Napa and Sonoma
Counties, within about 100 miles of San Francisco. The
variety of micro-climates, soils, terrains, and the Gold
Rush of European immigrants led to the growth of the wine
industry back in the mid 1800’s! Starting in Sonoma
(see Sonoma history), the region had about 60 years of
increased tourist activity until the 1906 earthquake and
Prohibition starting in 1919 put a most winemakers under
for another 60+ years. A new era of prosperity began in
the 70’s (see Napa Valley) and now there are about
650 wineries located in Napa and Sonoma counties. You can
travel far away from San Francisco and find great wines,
why would you? Well, there are some good reasons, but you
might as well start here!
