This weekend we are heading out to California for our trip to the Napa Valley because we are attending the BottleRock festival! If you’ve never heard of BottleRock, it’s a 3-day music, wine, food, and brew festival with 5 music stages, a culinary stage, and more! Basically, it’s a weekend of fun AND it’s in Napa. We can’t wait!
In honor of BottleRock this weekend, I thought it was finally time for me to put together my ultimate Napa Valley travel guide. While we love BottleRock, we’ve been to Napa just to wine taste, eat, and vacation many times and we always enjoy ourselves. If you’re a foodie and love wine, you have to visit wine country!
Napa is amazing but there are SO many different options when it comes to hotels, wine, and food. You really can’t go wrong because everything is lovely, but since I’ve done my fair share of trips to Napa, I’m laying out the best of the best. Depending on what your vibe is for your trip you’ll want to do some research, but overall there isn’t a bad option on this list! Now grab a glass of wine, sit back, and dive into this guide of the Napa Valley…
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Napa Valley Travel Guide
Hotels
Archer
Andaz
Alilia (staying here next…will report back)
Hotel Yountville
Ultra-Luxe Hotels
Stanly Ranch
Meadowood
Carneros
Solage
Four Seasons
Bardessono
Restaurants
Press
Boon Fly Cafe
The French Laundry
Solbar
Kenzo
Ad Hoc
Torq
Oenotri
Bars
Goose and Gander
Sky and Vine
Solbar
ArBARetum
Wilfred’s Lounge
Wineries
We LOVE visiting smaller wineries or wineries that offer an experience, such as a vineyard lunch or champagne brunch. If you have never been to Napa, some of the bigger-name wineries are worth a visit, if even for the aesthetics of the property. PRO TIP: I would visit NO MORE than 3 wineries per day. Honestly, 2 per day is probably the magic number. Here are some suggestions:
For the Views and the Experience
Far Niente
Cakebread
Joseph Phelps
Lunch at Chandon (if they still do this)
Chappellet
Domaine Carneros (Bubbles and Bites)
Prisoner
For the Architecture
Opus One
Quintessa
Artesa
Progeny
Cade
For the Heavy Pours
The only answer here is Del Dotto!
Some of Our All-Around Faves
Frias
Andrew Geoffrey (lunch on the mountain is a MUST)
Arkenstone
Vineyard 7&8
Viader (gorgeous views and wine)
Check out what I’m wearing to BottleRock here!
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