Wine Tour:Napa Valley-Carneros-Calistoga-Sonoma
AOC Travel Guides – A tour of food, wine and culture!
Want to savor your trip to the Napa Valley and Carneros and avoid the tourist traps? Just pack your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad and let us show you how to save time, money, energy and inconvenience as you explore the heart of California’s Wine Country.
“Napa Valley-Carneros” maps out four days of adventure through Calistoga, St. Helena, Rutherford, Yountville, Sonoma, the Carneros region and of course Napa. We’ll travel through vineyards, farmlands, state parks and museums.
We’ll stop at wineries, restaurants, and charming hotels. We want to share with you the bounty of Napa’s food and wine culture by showing you the best places for authentic tacos, outstanding BBQ, American gourmet home cooking, and Cabernet Sauvignons.
Don’t expect our travel guides to be an endless list of every business in the area, we’ll leave that to Yelp and the Yellow Pages, nor should you expect a review of every winery in the region. Instead, we offer you a well-researched list of places we can honestly and heartily recommend that you visit.
We have traveled to each destination, stayed in all the hotels, sipped wine at each winery and eaten at each of the restaurants listed.
We don’t accept freebies. We pay what you pay. And you reap the benefit of our independent, objective and unfiltered opinions. We take users on a guided adventure from breakfast through dinner. It’s much like having a personal concierge.
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WILLAMETTE VALLEY “My Perfect Days”
AOC Travel Guides – A tour of food, wine and culture!
Want to savor your trip to the Willamette Valley and avoid the tourist traps? Just pack your iPhone or iPod Touch and let AOC Travel Guides show you how to save time, money, energy and inconvenience as you explore the heart of Oregon Wine Country.
Wine Tour App Takes iPhone Users On Personal Road Trip
“Willamette — My Perfect Days” maps out four days of adventure through McMinnville, Carlton, Yamhill, Dundee, Newberg, Dayton, Amity-Eola, Mt. Angel and Silverton. We’ll travel through vineyards, farmlands, forest, state parks and museums. We’ll stop at wineries, restaurants, microbreweries and charming hotels. We’ll even introduce you to the largest Oktoberfest in the United States. (For the one in Munich, you better consult with Rick Steves!) We want to share with you the bounty of Oregon’s food and wine culture by showing you the best places for mushroom cuisine, Oregon fruit, cheese, Pinot Noir, Marechel Foch and where to find the only estate Syrah we know of being produced in the Willamette Valley.
Don’t expect our travel guides to be an endless list of every business in the Willamette Valley, we’ll leave that to Yelp and the Yellow Pages. Instead, we offer you a well-researched list of places we can honestly and heartily recommend that you visit.
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SONOMA – RUSSIAN RIVER – HEALDSBURG, CA
“My Perfect Days”
Want to savor your trip to Sonoma and the Russian River and avoid the tourist traps? Just pack your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad and let us show you how to save time, money, energy and inconvenience as you explore the heart of California’s Wine Country.
“Sonoma-Russian River” maps out four days of adventure through Sonoma, Healdsburg, Dry Creek Valley, Forestville, Guerneville, Jenner and Bodega. We’ll travel through vineyards, farmlands, forest, state parks and museums. We’ll stop at wineries, restaurants, and charming hotels. We want to share with you the bounty of Sonoma’s food and wine culture by showing you the best places for Dungeness crab cake salad, roasted chicken, gourmet pizza, Zinfandel, and Pinot Noir.
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What you can expect:
Under-the-radar wineries
Local and sustainable restaurants
Perfect spots for a romantic picnic
“Cool Things to Do”
A list of tourist traps and overrated spots
A special section detailing what’s kid-compatible, and what’s not
Lots of uncensored opinions, and a few laughs
We’ll give you our candid and distinctively personal opinion — never mean, sometimes irreverent and funny, but always unapologetic.
We’ve been there, done that … and for less than a glass of wine, you can make sure that you experience the best of the best.
ABOUT AOC TRAVEL GUIDES & AUTHORS
AOC Travel Guides publishes mobile travel publications on the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch that guide visitors with an interest in food, wine and culture. Every part of this application is generated by AOC Travel Guides. We have traveled to each destination, stayed in all the hotels, sipped wine at each winery and eaten at each of the restaurants listed. We don’t accept freebies. We pay what you pay. And you reap the benefit of our independent, objective and unfiltered opinions.
We’re just like you. We savor the perfect bite, the perfect sip and exploring new and long-loved places alike. Food, wine, adventure and travel have been our lifeblood and our passion for years. We want to use that background to help you discover “under-the-radar” adventures and introduce you to the uniqueness of the United States’ wine regions.
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Dana Jackson
Dana is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area. He studied sociology and political science at the University of California, Berkley, before joining the management team at the Westin St. Francis and the Four Seasons Clift Hotel in San Francisco. Currently, as a consultant, Dana travels the world working with major hospitality companies and casinos on their customer service culture and brand standards. His clients have included Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Mandarin Oriental, Hilton In-ternational, Preferred Hotels and Resorts, the Taj Group, Peninsula Hotels and Venetian/Palazzo Hotel in Las Vegas.
His passion for wine resulted in running a wine distribution co-mpany in Seattle, WA, specializing in wines from California, Wash-ington and Oregon.
Manfred Bluemel, Ph.D.
Manfred studied political science and art history at the University of Minnesota and the University of Vienna, Austria. He worked for several years designing and lead-ing customized tours across Europe and has lived in Austria, Italy, Turkey, Uganda and the United States.
Besides following a career in market research for a major Fortune 500 company in Seattle, WA, his interest in food and wine led him down the path of jointly owning a wine distribution com-pany with Dana Jackson.