Napa Valley Wine Country Tour
Highlights
- Marina district home to the Palace of Fine Arts
- The historic Presidio and the world famous Golden Gate Bridge
- Marin County home to the picturesque Sausalito
- Carneros wine growing region home to the Wine Country best Chardonnay and Pinot Noir
- Napa Valley (Oakville, Calistoga, Yountville, Rutherford, St. Helena)
- Gourmet Picnic lunch often takes a place within a winery or in a restaurant
- Visit Napa back roads such Silverado trail and its hidden wineries
- Drive back to San Francisco via Napa and Sonoma Valleys with an optional stop at Sausalito
Description of Napa Valley Tour
Napa Valley is home to California's finest wineries located in the most famous and elegant cities and growing regions in the Wine Country: Calistoga, St.Helena, Oakville, Rutherford, Yountville, Napa City and Outlying Areas.
Whether you are a first-time visitor or a wine connoisseur, our exciting Napa Wine Tour is unique and will fit your expectations. An all-day tasting experience takes you through almost all Napa Valley and its countryside back roads. During the day, you can eat outdoors among the vineyards with a gourmet picnic lunch at a scenic winery, or delight yourself at one of our many world famous Napa Valley restaurants. Taste Napa gourmet food and the array of excellent wines or sparkling wines that have made Napa Valley the world famous Premium Wine producer thanks to some famous wine producers such Robert Mondavi, Baron Ph.de Rothschild, Sutter Home, The Rubicon Estate Winery (former Francis Coppola winery). Napa Valley is also home to some of the finest sparkling wine in the whole Wine Country such Domain Chandon and Mumm. The guitar master, Carlos Santana, has teamed up with Mumm winery. The new bottling called Santana DVX. Santana qualifies his Sparkling wine as "a wine of great personal expression, fresh and supremely elegant!"
Over the years, Golden Horizon Travel team has developed privileged relationships with both small family "boutique" wineries and large well-known estates wineries, offering access and excellent services to our clients that go far beyond those of regular Van and Bus Tour companies. Many of our tour guide themselves have a wide and international background in the wine industry as one of their passions. Many of them are multilingual and state licensed tour guides. They know the Wine Country very well. Only Napa has more than 300 listed wineries, which makes it very overwhelming and difficult to explore without guidance. They know where to go and above all where not to go in order to make our Napa Wine Tour a successful and a pleasant experience. Your tour guide will be at your service all day long unlike other tour companies. So let our expert tour guides show you the best-kept secrets and hidden treasures of Napa Valley.
Your Napa Full day tour will take you to visit the back roads, off the beaten path wineries, both on the valley floor and in the imposing surrounding mountains, and take the opportunity to meet with winemakers. We also go where you wish to go on our Private Tours.
As we drive through charming vineyards and the back roads, your tour guide will provide a narrative preview covering the history of the Wine Country, and the wine making process. Take a seat and relax. Open the windows and smell Napa rich and colorful palette of flora such lavender, the fragrant eucalyptus, rosemary or the golden poppy, the state flower that grow abundantly in this area.
If you don't see birds in the blue sky above, you may see a bunch of colorful hot air balloons hanging over you. It's an enjoyable ride along the vineyards. Are you ready for the ultimate getaway to Napa Valley Wine adventure of your life? Call us at 1800-210-3008 now or make your online reservation to save money and time.
Our goal is to guarantee your satisfaction and exceed your expectations. We will make your visit to the Napa Valley Wine Country a most enjoyable and memorable experience. Join us and visit some of the premier wine producers in Napa Valley. We have selected these wineries not only for their outstanding red and white wines, but for their reputation and pleasant atmosphere, the location offers as well. Explore and admire the unsurpassed quality of life of the country side of Napa, the sunny side and the scenic rolling hills of the wineries surrounded by natural splendid mountains such Mount St Helena where mercury and silver were discovered. Wherever you stop, you will be touring the charming courtyards and boutique wineries. From tasting to shopping to simply relaxing in the serenity of Napa's natural beauty.
After lunch, we drive to new wineries either in Oakville, Napa Down Town, Calistoga, Yountville, Rutherford, or in St. Helena. We may also take you on our favorite back road wine trail well known as Silverado trail.
Our adventure combines also wine tours within the wineries and wine tasting with sommeliers or wine experts. It's a pleasant and an informative tour. We manage to combine wine and sparkling wine. Our Napa tour allows you to visit four to six wineries that may include some from the following Napa wineries: Sterling,Castillo di amorosa , Andretti Winery, Beringer Vineyards, Bouchaine Vineyards, Madonna Estate, Mumm Napa, Robert Mondovi Winery, Rutherford Hill Winery,V.Sattui Winery, Vine Cliff Winery, Chandon.
Visits and tasting may vary and subject to change according to time, customers taste and budget.
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We highly recommend our 4x4 SUV tour to better explore the Napa Wine Country Tour and its highlands in-depth. In addition, the SUV is allowed to go through many famous streets where vans, buses and stretch limousines are restricted, such Lombard Street, the crookedest street in the USA. It's more affordable for a group of three or more to go on the SUV than on the Van or bus tours. Book online and save money and time or contact us by phone at 1800-210-3008.
Prices for Napa Valley Tour
By Van:
| Tour Prices: | Adult (12+) | Child (5-11) | Senior (60+) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regular Price | $159.00 | $96.00 | $146.00 |
| Online Discount | $32.00 | $17.00 | $20.01 |
| Online Price | $127.00 | $79.00 | $125.99 |
- Daily Departures
- Duration: 8-9 hours approximately
- Pick-up time: 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
- Return: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
- 4 person minimum
Itinerary for Napa Valley Tour
9:00 AM - 10:00 AMDrive To Napa Valley
Our Napa Wine Country Tour starts by driving through Marina District, home to the Palace of Fine Arts dominated by the Presidio and the Pacific Heights. We keep driving north through the colorful and iconic Golden Gate Bridge passing Sausalito in Marin County on highway 101 dominated by the imposing Mount Tamalpais.
As we drive north on highway 101, you can see Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, a 1956 double-decker bridge that measures 5.4 miles and San Quentin State Prison that profiles at the near end of the bridge. A few miles away, you will be able to see Franck Lloyd's architectural masterpiece and national monument known today as Marin County Civic Center. This eclectic landmark is crowned by circular domes symbolizing galaxies and infinity, has been the perfect setting for a number of science fiction movies such; Star Wars, Gattaca and THX 1138.
We now exit highway 101 to go on highway 37 East towards Napa Valley via Sonoma Valley. As we cross the bridge the separates Marin from Sonoma County, you can enjoy the views over Stone Tree Golf Club and the hanging houses overlooking San Pablo Bay and its picturesque lagoons .
We are now coming into the southern part of Sonoma Valley as we pass Sonoma's famous Infineon Raceway on highway 12 that takes us to our first winery.
10:00 AM - 12:00 PMFirst Winery
Arriving to the picturesque rolling hills of Napa Valley where you will enjoy your favorite wine tasting before lunch.
12:30 PM - 2:00 PMLunch Time
Lunch time may take place as a gourmet lunch or often as a picnic within a winery in Napa Valley. Our schedule is flexible to match your needs and expectations.
2:00 PM - 4:00 PMMore Wine Tasting
Napa Wine Country Tour will offer you now a relaxing afternoon for more wine tasting or a panoramic excursions that combines the best of Napa Wine growing regions. We may visit some wine caves and hidden wineries where wine connoisseur will share with you the amazing story of the Wine Country while you taste your favorite wine over the picturesque rolling hills or from the terrace of a castle overlooking one of the Napa charming valleys.
4:00 PM - 5:00 PMBack to San Francisco
Napa Wine Country Tour will now take you back to San Francisco after such amazing journey with an optional side trip via Sausalito where you can decide either to stay with us or enjoying Sausalito and leave back to San Francisco on the ferry (tickets are not included). We often choose to make the breathtaking photo stop at Marin Headlands overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco Bay area. The Golden Gate Bridge is San Francisco's most colorful and iconic monument. Thanks to its astonishing giant dimensions, the Golden Gate Bridge becomes the most photographed bridge in the world. These spectacular sweeping views have drawn millions of tourists from all over the world. The Golden Gate Bridge inspired Hollywood most famous movies, such as James Bond, in a "View to Kill" and much more.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PMDrop Off
Our tour guide will drive you back to your hotel via the famous Pacific Heights (optional). The Pacific Heights is the most expensive area in San Francisco where some Movies Stars and celebrities live such ; Robin Williams, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Don Johnson, Danielle Steele, Nancy Pelosi, Lars Ulrich and more. We may drive by some famous movie locations such the house where Mrs. Doubtfire was filmed.
