Sonoma County - The Delaplaine 2017 Long Weekend Guide: Long Weekend Guides
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About this ebook
A complete guide for everything you need to experience a full weekend in the Sonoma Valley, the Napa Valley’s often underrated neighbor. It was here that winemaking first got its start. Come see why.
“We had the best time exploring Sonoma with this handy guidebook. We’ve used it two years in a row and found new listings each time.”
-–Jerry C., Chattanooga
=LODGINGS, variously priced
=RESTAURANTS, both upmarket & those on a budget
=SPAS. That’s right, Napa doesn’t have a chokehold on Spas
=ATTRACTIONS and tours
=Selected wineries chosen specially by Delaplaine, who produces his own wine from grapes partially selected from Sonoma.
Andrew Delaplaine
Writes both adult and children’s fiction and adventure stories, including the Jack Houston St. Clair political thriller series and the Sherlock Holmes IV mystery series, as well as a series of travel guides. He has directed 7 independent films and shorts, written 5, and produced 5.He also co-created and co-produced "A Wonderful World," a musical based on the life of Louis Armstrong told from the perspective of his four wives.In the past, he owned a famous nightclub on South Beach (The Warsaw Ballroom), published the longest-running paper on South Beach, "The Wire," and produced (for several years) a weekly TV show, "The Live Wire."He lives on South Beach, Miami's Billion Dollar Sandbar.He has no hobbies.
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Sonoma County - The Delaplaine 2017 Long Weekend Guide - Andrew Delaplaine
TABLES OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1
WHY SONOMA COUNTY?
Chapter 2
GETTING ABOUT
Chapter 3
WHERE TO STAY
Chapter 4
WHERE TO EAT
Chapter 5
WINERIES
Chapter 6
WHAT TO DO
Chapter 7
NIGHTLIFE
Chapter 8
SHOPPING & SERVICES
Chapter 9
SPAS
OTHER BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR
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Chapter 1
WHY
SONOMA COUNTY?
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Sonoma is to Napa what Chicago is to New York. The Second City.
But you can’t look down your nose at Sonoma any more than you can Chicago, which couldn’t be more different from New York if it tried.
Similarly, Sonoma offers its own wonderful experiences apart from the high-powered, high-end, deluxe experiences you find in the Napa Valley.
As I said in my book on Napa, after you make your first trip, you’ll come back and focus on this special part of America, so completely a world unto itself that there’s literally nothing else like it in this country. I am in the wine trade myself (my family produces a fine sparkling wine bearing the Carneros appellation using grapes from both Napa and Sonoma), so I know a little bit about it.
The two counties are quite different in layout and attitude. Though Napa is more famous than Sonoma, winemaking actually began in Sonoma (with the Franciscan monks at Sonoma Mission who made wine in 1823 for religious ceremonies) a whole generation before vineyards were planted in the 35-mile long Napa Valley, which is almost twice as big as Sonoma. And while vineyards line Napa from one end to the other, in Sonoma there still are fields where vineyards have not been planted. More breathing room,
if you will.
The oldest commercial winery in California is acknowledged to be Buena Vista, set up in the 1850s by one Agoston Haraszthy, a Hungarian with aristocratic pretentions.
While Napa is narrow and more confined, in Sonoma, the land extends out from the Russian River far and wide, giving you a much more expansive sensation.
Wine lovers didn’t really begin flocking to this area until the 1980s, and the lodgings at the time were limited to a few inns and some B&Bs.
But while lodgings in the Napa Valley have been upgraded to match the most luxurious in the world, over here in Sonoma, you’ll find things a lot less fancy. The corporatization
of Napa is not something you see here.
I strongly urge you to come here in the off-season, especially if