Product Features

• It is like having a wine-savvy travel guide
• Inside travel tips
• Details for hotels, restaurants, tours, pricing

From the Editors

<b>Put the Best of Napa & Sonoma in Your Pocket</b> <ul> <li> <p> <b>With insider tips</b> on tasting, buying, and shipping wine. <li> <p> <b>Outspoken opinions</b> on what's worth your time and what's not. <li> <p> <b>Exact prices,</b> so you can plan the perfect trip no matter what your budget. <li> <p> <b>Off-the-beaten-path experiences</b> and undiscovered gems, plus new takes on top attractions. <li> <p> <b>The best hotels, restaurants, and wineries</b> in every price range, with candid reviews. </ul> <p> <b>Frommer's. The best trips start here.</b> <p> Experience a place the way the locals do. Enjoy the best it has to offer. <p> And avoid tourist traps. At Frommer's, we use 150 outspoken travel experts around the world to help you make the right choices. <p> Find great deals and book your trip at <b>Frommers.com</b>
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Customer Response

Broad, Generic, Timid
This, like the other Frommer's Guides I have seen, seems to be timid, generic and void of fun, gritty, insider information. It gave some useful information to read on the plane about various wineries, but I left it in my hotel the days I headed out to Sonoma, and this I did on purpose. Do your research and buy a better guide.

Touristy hot spots
Just because a travel guide rips into the Mondavi winery as being too touristy does not mean it has any special insights on how to see parts of Napa that are off the beaten path. Mondavi is an easy target. Nevertheless, this guide does have some good info about where to go to get some free drink--and do not worry about wine-drinking protocol. Because if you like it, that's all the counts. The best vintage I ever had was still the '53 Chateau Mouton Rothschild my uncle gave me as a present for getting my doctorate in material science, and I slurped down that bottle while eating a corndog.

Trip to wine country
I'm planning a trip to wine country and needed some information, not an encyclopedia's worth. This was concise and will be handy to take with me. It is laid out geographically which will make it that much easier to see the wineries that I want to see.

Good Guide
We're not what you'd consider wine snobs and bought this book for the good excuse of checking out wine country which is just a short drive away. It's nice they included restaurants. After all the tasting stops it made our outing complete and we drove home totally content as well as sober.

Excellent little book
This small book (only 172 pages) is perfect for planning your next Sonoma/Napa visit. In fact, although I have been many times to Napa, I wanted a new place to stay with a fireplace and jacuzzi bath and privacy. I found a great place in the book called Cottage Grove Inn - with 2 Frommers stars.

Because it is so portable, not all the wineries are listed, so if what you need is a listing of all wineries this may not be your book. However, if you need to find the best in hotels and dining experiences as well as some of the best wineries to discover for yourself, then this little jewel is perfect.

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