If you’ve been to the northern California wine country in the last few years and done any wine country tours that focus on or include Sonoma Valley along with the better know Napa Valley, you might have noticed on those wine country tours that the Sonoma Valley is coming into its own and breaking out of the shadow long cast upon it from its neighbor over the hill, the Napa Valley.
Sonoma Valley wine country has slowly built a reputation for being a much more inviting atmosphere for the average wine drinker and visitor on a wine country tour, with inexpensive or free tasting rooms and most of the wineries producing wines with a more accessible price point. Sonoma County seems determined to keep their welcoming reputation and to promote it further, likes to host various community events throughout the year, focused on the pleasures of wine and food.
One the third weekend of March, Sonoma Valley will hold its annual Savor Sonoma Valley event, which is built around drinking Sonoma wines from two dozen local wineries in the valley drawn from barrels of 2008 grapes before the contents are bottled. In addition to drinking barrel wines, and some new releases, there will also be food, live music and art on display while wine drinkers and makers at twenty venues scattered throughout the Sonoma Valley.
