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Drive Napa Valley yourself, with a GPS audio guide that plays automatically as you go. Your booking unlocks the whole region in the free Wine Trails app: pick your date and starting point — Downtown Napa near Oxbow Public Market, Yountville, St. Helena or Calistoga — choose the cellar doors you want from the 58 mapped across the valley, and the app builds your personal route with turn-by-turn narration. 82 narrated stories cover the valley's people and places: as you pass Oakville you'll hear how one afternoon in Paris on 24 May 1976, when a 1973 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon beat the great chateaux of Bordeaux at Steven Spurrier's blind tasting, put this valley back on the world map. No group, no schedule, no guide — pause for a long lunch, replay anything, and the audio keeps working when the signal drops, because everything downloads offline. You'll need a car and a designated driver; tastings are booked and paid directly with the wineries.
What's Included
Meeting and pickup
Itinerary
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1
Robert Mondavi left his family's Charles Krug winery after a fistfight with his brother and built this Cliff May-designed arch at Oakville in 1966, the first major Napa winery since Prohibition.
1 hour • Admission ticket free -
2
Jacob and Frederick Beringer founded this St. Helena estate in 1876 and had Chinese labourers hand-cut tunnels into the hillside; it stayed open through Prohibition on sacramental wine.
1 hour • Admission ticket free -
3V. Sattui Winery
Vittorio Sattui started selling wine from a North Beach cellar in 1885; his great-grandson revived the label here in 1976, and the wines are still sold only at the winery.
1 hour • Admission ticket free -
4Castello di Amorosa
Dario Sattui spent thirteen years building a 121-room, 13th-century-style Tuscan castle above Calistoga, hand-laying imported stone down to a working drawbridge and moat.
1 hour • Admission ticket not included -
5Sterling Vineyards
A white hilltop winery reached by aerial tram, three hundred feet above the valley floor, with the bells of a 12th-century London church hanging outside.
1 hour • Admission ticket free -
6Frog's Leap Winery
John Williams farms dry, without irrigation, on an old Rutherford frog farm; the red barn dates to 1884 and the house motto is that time's fun when you're having flies.
1 hour • Admission ticket free -
7
Gustave Niebaum founded this Rutherford estate in 1879; Francis Ford Coppola bought it back piece by piece with Godfather money and reunited the original vineyard in 1995.
1 hour • Admission ticket free -
8Domaine Carneros
The Taittinger family of Champagne built this chateau on the cool Carneros flats in 1987, modelled on their own 18th-century Chateau de la Marquetterie.
1 hour • Admission ticket free -
9Stag's Leap Wine Cellars
Warren Winiarski's 1973 Cabernet beat the first growths of Bordeaux at the 1976 Judgment of Paris, and the vineyard that grew it sits on the Silverado Trail.
1 hour • Admission ticket free
Additional info
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Cancellation Policy
- For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
- Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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