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From: lacy@hplabs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: California Wine Tours - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 11-Jul-83 16:29:59 EDT
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hplabs!lacy    Jul 11 12:44:00 1983

Advice on wine tours depends on what you want to see.  There are
dozens of wineries and each one offers something different.
You can plan a tour around:

   Wine History
   Wine Making
   Good Reds
   Good Whites

As an example, I've already seen the tours and I like to taste
good cab/zin/chard.  I'd do the following:

   Robert Mondovi
   Cakebread
   Stags Leap
   Silver Oak
   Heitz
   Schramsberg
   Sterling 
   Guenoc (Lake County)
   Chateau St Jean (whites - Sonoma)

Good wine tours might include:

   Korbel
   Beringer
   Sterling
   Buena Vista - history
   Christian Bros - history

Ask anyone else and you'll get a different list.

Oh yes, if you want good prices, go the the liquor barn in
San Jose.  The only deals you get at wineries are on the
wines you can't buy anywhere else anyway.  

Sharon Lacy
Lacy@HP-VENUS