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5 Tips for Planning a Wine Country Vacation

Planning a vacation can sometimes be tough, frustrating and nerve-racking.  Once you decide where you want to go you then have to decide what to do next. What to see?  Where to sleep?  Who to visit?  Where to eat?  The list goes on.  Lucky for me, I have a wife who is very organized and [...]

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Time for a Vacation

I really hate the start of a new year.  In addition to all the resolutions that most likely will never come to fruition and performance evaluations at work there is the fact there are not very many holidays to take advantage of after just finishing the holiday blitz of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and [enter your celebrated end-of-year holiday [...]

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Review of the iVisit Sonoma County iPhone App

We have been planning a trip to Sonoma for past several weeks and much like planning for any vacation, it takes some time to prepare an itinerary especially when you’re looking to visit several wineries a day.  There are several approaches we like to use and after polling some wine friends, we’ve learned of other [...]

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The Surreality that is Sonoma

Piggybacking on the 2nd Annual Wineblogger’s Conference this year, the wife and I stayed in Sonoma another 4 days to tour and taste to oblivion!  In those 4 days we visited 20 total wineries and we thank many of our friends for the awesome recommendations, hook-ups and tips that lead to such a wonderful experience.  [...]

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Vacation in a Wine Country Near You

Living in Georgia, we don’t get an opportunity to vacation in Napa, Sonoma, or the other northwest wine regions of the country as often as we’d like.  And certainly, wines from those areas get most of the notoriety which kinda makes sense since California produces roughly 90% of the wine made in the U.S.  But, [...]

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