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New Winery Find: Heibel Ranch

Wednesday June 22, 2011

Heibel Ranch may have the most beautiful tasting room in all of Napa - one with no walls, the wine poured at a picnic table in a wooded grove beside a lake. Make an appointment for the Back Country Tour, meet owner and winemaker Trent Ghiringhelli at the property's entrance and you'll get there in "Sugar Magnolia", a 1963 Willy's Navy jeep.

Find out what we thought of the experience.

Top Napa Wineries: New Additions, Updates

Monday June 20, 2011

To create our guide to Napa's top wineries, we started out by interviewing a professional Napa Valley tour guide to get the inside scoop on the best wineries for you to try on your next vacation. Now we've visited more on our own and have our own recommendations to offer.

On our most recent Napa visit, we enjoyed fine wine and food during the Enoteca experience at Signorello. Besides great food and wine, they have one of the best views in Napa. That's it in the photo.

We're also starting to look for some great, small wineries - ones that only produce a few thousand cases per year, individually-owned - where you might just find the owner or the winemaker in the tasting room or giving a tour. Look for them here.

Find Napa's best wineries in every category in the all in the Top Napa Valley Winery and Tasting Room Guide

More: Napa California Visitor Guide | Napa's Prettiest Wineries

Photo of the Week: San Francisco Skyline

Saturday June 18, 2011

We like the gold-and-blue of this photo, taken shortly after sunset from Tank Hill for a less-photographed perspective on downtown.

See a larger-sized version in our San Francisco Vacation Planner.

More: Photographing San Francisco | San Francisco Skyline Pictures | San Francisco at Night

Best of the Rest in Los Angeles?

Wednesday June 15, 2011
LA is too big to stop at just 10 things to do, so these are the "best of the rest" things to do. We've made some changes and added a few new things, so we need your input. Tell us:

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