We live in Northern California. Napa has better fancy restaurants, but Sonoma is a better overall experience for wine tasting, shopping, sightseeing, and relaxation. Sonoma has so many excellent, friendly, better priced wineries. Healdsburg is super cute and walkable. And, both Sonoma and Healdsburg have several wineries right in town. We like to go mid week or in the winter - the wineries are very quiet and people are happy to give you tips on restaurants and hidden winery gems.
New subscriber... we're planning a trip to Mendoza later this year, thanks for the tips! We liked Sonoma more than Napa, and did enjoy the Girl and the Fig as well. Sonoma is our second favorite wine region... you need to check out Paso Robles. Red, reds and more reds!!!!
Oh yay! Welcome to the family! How cool you're going to Mendoza. We did so many wine regions this year! We'll add Paso Robles for next year! Reds are totally our thing!
@@TouristtoLocal for one day I'd highly recommend Fratelli Perata, Ecluse and Venteux. Second day would be J Lohr, Glunz and Loma Seca. We've been going for over a decade and tasted at 100+ places... although that means there are 300 places we haven't tasted at yet! From your vid I'm thinking you'd love these 6. Hope you make it, and thanks again for the great Mendoza videos!
@@TouristtoLocal 0:29 well, as your criteria goes, I think you should. It is one of the oldest wine region of CA, one winery is even named after a Bandido😄. Many small winery and a couple of large name like Wente and Concannon. Livermore also has a nice small downtown area for foods and IF you're into comic books... well, they have this one cool corner one, with a great guy to help ya.. Also near by is Pleasanton CA, which has it's great history as well, it's famous for their small town feel, especially with their downtown area. The good thing is you can visit both and both cities offer a lot of history and good food. Thanks for replying👍
We live in Northern California. Napa has better fancy restaurants, but Sonoma is a better overall experience for wine tasting, shopping, sightseeing, and relaxation. Sonoma has so many excellent, friendly, better priced wineries. Healdsburg is super cute and walkable. And, both Sonoma and Healdsburg have several wineries right in town. We like to go mid week or in the winter - the wineries are very quiet and people are happy to give you tips on restaurants and hidden winery gems.
Sonoma is such a special place! We love the vibe there :) Thanks for watching!
You sure do find beautiful places to show us, Sonoma is no exception.
Yay! So glad you enjoyed this one, Cindy!
New subscriber... we're planning a trip to Mendoza later this year, thanks for the tips! We liked Sonoma more than Napa, and did enjoy the Girl and the Fig as well. Sonoma is our second favorite wine region... you need to check out Paso Robles. Red, reds and more reds!!!!
Oh yay! Welcome to the family! How cool you're going to Mendoza. We did so many wine regions this year! We'll add Paso Robles for next year! Reds are totally our thing!
@@TouristtoLocal for one day I'd highly recommend Fratelli Perata, Ecluse and Venteux. Second day would be J Lohr, Glunz and Loma Seca. We've been going for over a decade and tasted at 100+ places... although that means there are 300 places we haven't tasted at yet! From your vid I'm thinking you'd love these 6. Hope you make it, and thanks again for the great Mendoza videos!
Ty, and the mics sound great
Such a fun video guys!
Aw thanks so much!
Healdsburg is a hidden gem in Sonoma.
Ooooh thanks for the tip!!
As long as you have LOTS of $$$$.
will you guys be checking out Livermore?
We weren’t planning on it! Should we???
@@TouristtoLocal 0:29 well, as your criteria goes, I think you should. It is one of the oldest wine region of CA, one winery is even named after a Bandido😄. Many small winery and a couple of large name like Wente and Concannon. Livermore also has a nice small downtown area for foods and IF you're into comic books... well, they have this one cool corner one, with a great guy to help ya.. Also near by is Pleasanton CA, which has it's great history as well, it's famous for their small town feel, especially with their downtown area. The good thing is you can visit both and both cities offer a lot of history and good food. Thanks for replying👍
Hi, will you guys go to Estes Park this year? Im going late January for first time and would love to see what i have instore!
Unfortunately we aren’t! Sounds like a cute place though!
@@TouristtoLocal kind of a cheaper alternative to aspin, cant wait
Sonoma makes wine, Napa makes auto parts.
That’s funny 😂
The girl and the fig is not dog friendly, even service animals.
We called to confirm and were advised pets are allowed on the patio only :)