San Francisco Half-Day Wine tour?
 

Im joining my husband for a quick trip in San Francisco Oct.22-24th. Hes there on business so will be working a few hrs in the mornings. This leaves us an option to take a hallf-day winery tour on wednesday. Any suggestions? ive found 2 links online. One for wineries in Oakland...
http://www.extranomical.com/HTML_PAG..._WINE_TOUR.htm

Or a Sonoma Valley one: (First on list on the pg)
http://reservations.onlyinsanfrancis...?ticketID=2123

Thoughts or a better idea? Thanks!

Hmmm, I don't get it...what's the rush or need to do a half-day wine tour? Is it that important?

Stay in SF and enjoy am awesome City.

Of the two you've listed, I'd try the Sonoma tour. However, you might contact Don at Platypus Tours: www.platypustours.com
He may be able to provide or suggest something for you in the Napa Valley.

My suggestion:
If you have a car, it would be easiest to drive to Sonoma (town) or Napa Valley and visit a couple of wineries on your own. If you leave at Noon, you would be there by 1:00 PM, and you could have a fabulous lunch and visit wineries, or visit a few wineries first(some are open til 6PM, others close earlier) and then have an amazing dinner in one of the fine Napa Valley restaurants before driving back to the City.

In Napa Valley wineries are relatively close to one another, so an afternoon trip would work well.

If you decided to visit the town of Sonoma, you could eat at one of the restaurants on the town square and visit wineries close to town.

ummmm? 1/2 day in <u>Oakland &amp; Emeryville</u> vs. all day right in San Francisco. That is a no brainer - go to a nice wine bar in SF and skip &quot;beautiful&quot; downtown Alameda County.

I agree - if you really REALLY need to get out of town, rent a car, and drive to Sonoma.

Good point...I guess i was just excited by the wine country idea. Never been.

Hi cruzan, that EastBay tour is NOT wine country. Having lived here all my life I had never heard of this tour but I read the website and quite frankly it wouldn't appeal to me even if it was free.

Were you planning on renting a car? Will you be coming back to SF? With the time you have I would be inclined to just enjoy SF but if you want to see some wine country I agree with janisj's suggestion.

Wishing you a fun and wonderful trip!

cruzan,

The east bay &quot;wine tour&quot; is merely visiting tasting rooms sponsored by wineries, not the wineries themselves.

If you want to see the wine country in half a day you will need to go to Sonoma Valley or Napa Valley. These are at least an hour away from the city.

If you can find a 1/2 day tour which will take you to a couple of wineries so that you won't need to just drive around and find them. OK.

But, I agree that with such a short time in the city I would save the wine country visit for another trip and make a whole day or two-day trip. So much to see and do in the city.

Press Club at the Fairmont has a wine tasting bar:

http://www.pressclubsf.com/

Wouldn't even have to leave SF. 8 Napa wineries.

You could also ride the ferry to Alameda and go to Rosenblum Cellars:

https://www.rosenblumcellars.com/pag...6&amp;catid=48

Sorry about that, the Press Club is not near the Fairmont... it is near the..... on Market St......near Union Square:

http://www.yelp.com/biz/press-club-san-francisco

Oh, somebody help me out...

It isn't at Union Sq - it is on the south side of Market street at the Four Seasons.

Thanks janis. I did say NEAR Union Square not ON Union Square. I walked past it while staying at the Palace Hotel last week. Not far from there.

Thanks everyone! We fly out wednesday. We arent renting a car. Like your thoughts!