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Wine Lover’s Tour from San Jose
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Wine Lover’s Tour from San Jose Highlights
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Wine Lover’s Tour from San Jose Price List |
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For more information on tour prices, please call us on 1-866-231-3752.
We will also be able to arrange a pickup location for you.
Please note that all of our tours regularly pick up from San Francisco. But if you book a charter,we can offer complimentary pick up from San Jose.
Wine Lover’s Tour prices from San Jose do not include meals & wine tasting fees.
Wine Lover’s Tour from San Jose Description |
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Wine Lovers Wine Country Tour. You don’t have to be on your honeymoon to go on this tour, but it can’t hurt to take your special someone on this tour through America’s best known wine producing region. The Wine Lovers Wine Country Tour is a semi-private tour, which means you’ll be traveling in a smaller group, so you’ll have a little more room in the vehicle and a little more freedom in choosing where to go. The tour might be all Napa Valley, or all Sonoma Valley, or some of both. (FIY - Napa is a little further away so going there means a little more driving, and a little less tasting, nibbling, and picture-taking time than staying in Sonoma for the day. Not saying it’s a bad thing – I’m just sayin’.) Your guide will spend some time in the first hour discussing the options and taking suggestions. The group can decide to go to both Sonoma and Napa Valley, or concentrate on just one “neighborhood”. This usually means visiting from four to six boutique wineries in one day. On the rest of the drive north, your guide will fill you in on the colorful history of California and wine making therein, and the short drives between wineries afford time to talk about the science and art of wine making, and wine tasting, and other fascinating topics.
This trip will provide the opportunity to sample wineries from various Napa regions such as Los Carneros, Rutherford, Oakville, St. Helena, Yountville or Stags Leap, and/or the Sonoma Valley region. And we’ll find time to grab a tasty lunch in between the tastings, or maybe at one of the wineries! Some wineries offer complimentary tastings, but most charge a fee ranging from $5 to $10 (or it could be more - just sayin’), and winery hosted tours usually cost extra. But that is up to the group - we can adjust the route, within reason, and we’ll do our best to make it a treat for everyone. Your guide will use experience and knowledge to help the group decide where to go within the southern portions of both famous valleys, give hints about where the best deals are if you want to buy or ship home, and make suggestions to maximize the visual attraction, while minimizing the tasting fees and the driving time. Just come prepared to have fun with people from around the world and the U.S. in America’s Wine Country!
Sonoma and Napa Winery Tour Stops. California has approximately 1400 Wineries and 650 of them are located in our backyard of Sonoma and Napa counties. First we narrow the list down to those within a reasonable distance, and then we used our years of experience to whittle it down further so the ones on our list have good wine, are friendly and do a good presentation, and have other amenities, such as nice scenery, interesting history, or other attractions. Our list of wineries might change slightly from time to time, as we discover new gems, or someone’s staff or business policy changes. At this time, here is our list of wineries that we have visited on a regular basis. Keep in mind we won’t visit all of these on a single tour. This is just to give you an idea where we MIGHT end up when you travel with us. These are our “friends”, so to speak.
Wine Lover’s Tour from San Jose Itinerary |
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Wine Lover’s Tour from San Jose
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8:00 - 9:00 AM
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Pick-up for your Wine Lovers Tour at your San Francisco hotel in downtown or Fisherman's Wharf area.
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9:00 - 9:10 AM
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Cross the Golden Gate Bridge into the Marin Headlands, and maybe stop and snap a picture if the weather allows it. Otherwise, continue north on and...
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9:10 - 9:20 AM
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Pick up in Sausalito if necessary.
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9:20 - 10:30 AM
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Travel north on U.S. 101 through Marin County into Sonoma Valley or beyond. You're in Wine Country! Talk about where to go, what to see and taste, what to eat, and how much to buy! Learn some history.
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10:30 - Noon
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Visit a winery or two or three (Wheeeee!) before lunch or maybe just 2 and then lunch! Learn about the wine making process and what makes the California wine country so special.
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12:00 - 1:00 PM
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Find some lunch! We'll either plan the tour so you have lunch at one of the wineries, go to a place in Napa, or start the drive back and make it to Sonoma for lunch.
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1:00 - 4:00 PM
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After lunch, either spend more time at Napa Valley wineries and work your way south. OR, go further north into Sonoma Valley, or you are already there and work your way south back towards the Carneros for a few more winery stops.
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4:00 - 4:45 PM
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Take an optional stop in scenic Sausalito and enjoy the view of San Francisco, Alcatraz and the Bay, or say good-bye and take an optional ferry (fare not included) back to San Francisco, landing in either Fisherman's Wharf or at the Ferry Building (and find your own way back to your hotel).
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5:00 - 6:00 PM
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Go back across the Golden Gate Bridge and get dropped off at your San Francisco Hotel.
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- Our tour guides are extensively trained on both safety driving techniques and on providing an informative and interesting tour. Before being hired, we test our guides on safety driving in realistic situations around San Francisco they are also tested through an oral presentation of the material they will present to make sure that they provide a safe, knowledgeable and interesting tour. They are regularly evaluated by customer satisfaction reviews, secret shoppers and rewarded through customer satisfaction based bonuses.
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- Extranomical was founded in 2002 and is one of the fastest growing tour companies in San Francisco currently performing more tours than any other company to Yosemite National Park and Muir Woods & Wine Country combination tour. We are also pioneers in offering tours to San Francisco's Best Restaurants with our "Best San Francisco Taco Tour, Sushi Tour and Pizza Tour". To date we have served over 10,000 happy customers. Guests have chosen our tours to get engaged, begin or end round-the-world adventures, celebrate their anniversaries, welcome new employees and more! We look forward to serving you soon!
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