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Message: [QUOTE="Drumguy, post: 4335755, member: 75"] Well you can book Promenade for $200 a person but I wouldn’t. Yes, Napa has wineries that are less expensive like trefethen, trouchard (they supply most of the Chard grapes in the valley), and bouchaine, usually wineries where they don’t pair with food - but the big cab houses can be very expensive - they’ll pour library wines for that amount and serve great tasting pairings. I’m not a big fan of the expensive names - Opus, Caymus, Quintessa, Alpha Omega or the soulless wineries like Prisoner or Hall - I think you can do as well at the Nickel&Nickel/Far Niente/Davis/Odette wineries. I am a big fan of Ridge in Lytton Springs in Dry Creek AVA but have come to love the Napa hill wineries - as I said - Mayacamas will add a library vertical and it’s wine is so good I’ve joined the club. The ride to the winery and then an ATV ride to the top of Mt. Veeder is worth the tasting room fee. Just tried Lang & Reed in St. Helena last week, reasonably priced and the owners do the pouring - they specialize in Cab Franc and Chenin Blanc and were not expensive. Stony Hill is about the best whites I’ve had and I joined the club to get out of the $95 tasting fee. I did have some great less expensive wines in Sonoma - Lioco in Healdsberg, and Cobb pinot, Stony Edge, but the wineries can have some expensive bottles as well. Some of the wineries I mentioned have incredible wine servers - at Mayacamas I had the former Somm at 1125 Madison and at Stony Hill the former Somm at Alinea. Also, I think you should ALWAYS tip the servers at least $20-$30/person and buy a few bottles to ship back, they get some credit for sales and I use Stagecoach in Napa to ship - drop the bottles off and go for a standard $75/case. Sorry to sound like a know it all, I just spend so much time there now I’ve gotten to know the Valleys well. [/QUOTE]

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