WINE TRAILS: PLAN 52 PERFECT WEEKENDS IN WINE COUNTRY

(Lonely Planet) Napa Valley, California: “... Home to some of the world’s most famous and critically acclaimed wineries, today’s Napa Valley is as moneyed and manicured as it gets – a far cry from the rural backwater that visitors would’ve discovered up until the mid1970s. Things have never been the same since the “Judgement of Paris” tasting of 1976, when a handful of plucky upstarts pitched their wines in a blind tasting against the mightiest estates of Bordeaux and Burgundy in France. The winners in both red (Cabernet Sauvignon) and white (Chardonnay) were revealed to be from the Napa Valley – a result that shook the wine world to its foundations.”