Sonoma: A Food and Wine Lover's Guide

by Lena Tabori

Slip them into your purse or briefcase, or tuck them into your glove compartment, your carry-on, back pocket or backpack, these durable, laminated "books in a map" take travel guides into an exciting new direction. Highly visual, AAA Greatest Hits Maps provide solid information in an accessible format for our fast-paced times. AAA Insider Guides have everything great about a map - the size (folds down to 4 1/2" x 9"), the information (nobody does maps better than AAA), the price (only $7.95) - as well as the essential features of a guide book (24 pages of text by someone worth listening to, recommending the best of everything, whether in the Bay Area, Napa, or Sonoma, including opening and closing hours, telephone numbers, and probable expenses). Laminated so you can spill coffee on them and fold and unfold and refold as often as you like, these maps are designed to work for you. Everything recommended is numbered and color codes. Since the numbers run sequentially, you can find anything as you logically a restaurant next to the hotel, a picnic area near the winery. Detail maps right next to your chosen spot mean you can fold the Insider Guide down to a handy size. And, of course, there is an overall map, providing you all the context and more that you'll ever need. Here, in addition to the wineries, there is a special focus on the food the cheese makers, the wild mushroom growers, the Gravenstein apple orchards, the farmer's markets. You'll even learn the best place to buy raspberr vinegar. So much grows in Sonoma besides their incredible vineyards. This slim but jam-packed little map/book allows you to revel in the same country that Alice Waters made famous, in her search for organic produce for Chez Panisse.

Paperback

First published September 1, 2002