Top Ten (Ridiculously Expensive) Wine Vacations
Castles are cheap accommodations, right?
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Someone please slap me if I ever say I want to try the “cuisine de terroir” unless I happen to be speaking French. I originally bookmarked this article about the ten best wine vacations in the world because I thought, “Oh, I have time. I’d love to take a wine vacation.” Then, I realized what I was really thinking was, “Oh, I have time, because I don’t have a full-time job. I’d love to take a wine vacation on a budget.”
Oh, well, I can always dream about luxury accomodations and private helicopter tours at the finest vineyards in the world. And if a million dollars or a platonic sugar daddy dropped into my lap, some of these places would be high on my list, though for now, please inform me about the closest hostel:
- Tunisia and the Mediterranean
- Priorat, Spain
- South Africa
- New Zealand
- Mendoza, Argentina
- Alentejo, Portugal
- Napa and Sonoma, USA
- Piedmont, Italy
- Tokaj, Hungary
- Burgundy, France
June 14th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
If you seriously want to see Napa on the cheap the way I’d advise you is to find an inexpensive motel/ hotel in the EAST BAY area, NOT San Francisco and rent a car, then drive up to Napa.
There’s probably some tour deals that you can take out of Oakland that do the driving for you if you want to imbibe above the legal limit (who doesn’t?).
There also is a hostel in Marin County just south of Sonoma if you really want to do it cheap. It’s suppose to be really pretty and I do recommend a visit to the area. You can drive there too as well. (Something us San Franciscans try to avoid).
http://www.norcalhostels.org/marin/
Cheers - Julie San Francisco, CA