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Wine Country Tours: Discover How Wine is Made

by Summer Wilde

Few getaways can exhilarate your taste buds as vibrantly as wine country tours can. These romantic and enlightening trips provide an opportunity to enchant your sense of taste with an array of California wine, as well as exquisite restaurants featuring local, fresh ingredients to accompany every selection.

Whether you have a partiality for Pinot Noir, a penchant for Pinot Grigio or a soft spot for Shiraz, wine country tours can help you enjoy all of your favorites, as well as learn to love new wines - all with the benefit of experienced tour guides.

Any legitimate wine guide can explain wine ingredients and the growing, fermenting, and aging processes involved in wine creation. However, a wine guide's knowledge can be extremely useful for pairing complementary foods and cuisines with matching wines for maximum sensory enjoyment.

The ultimate wine country tours provide ample tasting opportunities for a wide variety of wines. Wineries want you to fall in love with their product, so they give you the chance to fully experience the taste. Thus, a comprehensive tour often provides transportation to and from the vineyard.

While enjoying your tour through vineyards and discovering your favorite wines, find out if they have something called a wine club. A wine club could either offer a scheme where you get a discount from the winery on purchases of cases of your favorite wines or it could even send its members new wine samples to try off and on. Either way, it is great to find out more about what is on offer.

You get to enjoy some of the most lavish scenery along with the educational and tasting opportunities through California wineries. The rolling hills of grape arbors and fruit orchards make a beautiful and lovely setting for a picnic, so don't forget to enjoy the benefits of the backdrop accompanied by wine country tours. Also remember the cool wine caves of the place, which provide relief during hot summer days. It doesn't matter where you are, in Sonoma County, or in the Napa Valley, there is a California wine, and much more waiting to delight your senses.

Signing up for one of California's wine country tours is a marvelous way to treat yourself to an educational and fun vacation. You will learn about new grapes while enjoying your old favorites like Merlot and Pinot Noir. Guides can help you discover the subtleties of taste and decide which California wine to purchase, as well as giving you information about a wine club to join. The scenery at these wineries is romantic, with great views and lots of picnic opportunities. Explore Napa Valley and Sonoma County to discover a whole new world.

Published February 20th, 2008

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