Fall in Colorado at the Colorado Wine Festival

Posted on Friday, August 21, 2009

Celebrate Colorado wine and food at the annual Colorado Mountain Winefest. Enjoy wine maker's dinners, wine pairing courses, a variety of seminars and tastings and much more. One of the highlights of the weekend is sure to be the 16th Annual Tour de Vineyards, a scenic bike ride through Colorado's wine country beginning in Grand Junction, September 18th, 2010. www.coloradowinefest.com

Giada's Wine Country Weekend

Posted on Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Popular Food Network TV Chef Giada De Laurentiis, took her Oct. 2nd episode to the Napa/Sonoma regions. She experienced a balloon ride over the valley, olive oil tasting in St. Helena, wine tasting and biking along the country roads of Sonoma. No visit to the region is complete without going to COPIA: the American Center for Wine, Food & the Arts.

Want to experience a similar trip but don't know where to start planning?
Globus offers a similar 8 day package San Francisco & the Wine Country.  Trip highlights include a San Francisco tour as well as a Bay cruise. In Sonoma  you visit Roche Winery, have a picnic at Viansa Winery & Italian marketplace, tour Sebastiani Vineyards, as well as food & wine pairing at Buena Vista Winery. In Napa have lunch aboard the wine train, visit Mumm, Envy Wine & COPIA. A farewell dinner is included at Wine Spectator Greystone Restaurant...Prices from $1,989 per person.

"The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars."Benjamin Franklin