The Napa Valley Wine Walk

We apologize that the wine walk has not been updated for several years, but many of the sites are still available to visit. We hope the tour offers an opportunity for you to  discover more opportunities for tasting and exploring along the way. 

Where to Stay, What to Do, and How to Get Around.

Preparing for Your Visit and What to Expect ​

Wineries on the Wine Walk

Why Napa Wine WalkWalk?

"A safe wine-tasting option"
"Because [Napa County] is so vast, someone in every group of visitors  must drive from one tasting room to the next—which requires a  designated driver or chauffeur. This could be one reason locals are atwitter over a new concept designed to attract wine enthusiasts to downtown Napa.
 "The idea, dubbed Napa WineWalk, is an upscale spin on the traditional pub crawl."   (Read the Chronicle's article)

Explore the Napa WineWalk on California Heartland, courtesy of KVIE Public Television (5 minutes) 

Nowhere else can you try so many wines so conveniently
And nowhere else can you buy so many hard-to-find wines knowing with certainty that you'll like them because you just tasted them. You'll save time, you'll save gas, you'll save the stress of driving and traffic. You can focus solely on enjoying yourself as you wander on foot through the food, wine and shopping delights of downtown Napa. And, why not spend the night at one of downtown Napa's new hotels, and do it all over again the next day? And another night and day as well.
Join us on the Napa WineWalk.  

You'll notice that as you walk, you'll also pass many of Napa's finest restaurants
30 excellent restaurants from Michelin-starred to friendly pubs. Do yourself a favor, and stop in during or after your walk for a thoroughly enjoyable meal, whether it be lunch, dinner or a mid-afternoon snack. 

Small Wines, Big Wines and more Wines
Most wines available for tasting on the Napa WineWalk are from small, low-production wineries in the Napa Valley, many of them hard-to-find "cult" or "boutique" wines. Others are from elsewhere in California and throughout the world.
Some tasting rooms are operated by a single winery pouring its own wines. Others are a cooperative effort where wines from a number of different wineries are served. Still others are wine bars, not connected with any particular winery but pouring wines by the taste or the glass from as many as 40 different wineries from the Napa Valley and beyond.
Wine samples on the Napa WineWalk can vary from an ounce to a full glass. There's a fee, of course, but the Napa WineWalk is a rare opportunity to not just sample but purchase some of the finest wines in California and in the world. The wine shops and tasting bars will be happy to deliver your wine purchase to your hotel, or arrange for shipment to your home or office, assuming you live in a state where direct delivery is legal. (See www.freethegrapes.org for details. If you've visited every tasting room on the Napa WineWalk and are still ready for more, we recommend the Napa Wine Project. You'll find extensive information on nearly every single winery in the Napa Valley.

No Designated Driver Needed......
when you spend the night at one of 5 New Downtown Napa Hotels or any of our many other convenient lodgings. No matter how you choose to experience the Napa WineWalk, it makes sense to have a room at one of the hotels, inns or B&Bs in the downtown area. With a convenient location like that, you can have a great meal at one of the downtown restaurants, walk back to your room, have a good night's sleep, and do it all again tomorrow, sampling some of the wines you missed today.Find out more about places to stay. 

The Napa Valley Book is still the most comprehensive guidebook to the entire Napa Valley.
You can order it through your local bookseller, or buy it by clicking on the cover image above. Frankly, since it was last updated in 2007, it's out of date in some areas. Prices have gone up, restaurants and wine bars, and even lodging, have come and gone...and come...but it's still the best and most comprehensive guidebook to the valley you can find.
Paperback, 252 pages, published 2007.  

And it's not always about the wine.
Remember bookstores? Real bookstores? Where there were real people who carried on conversations with customers, and liked to talk about and recommend books? There's no wine tasting at Napa Bookmine. (Although there are books on wine.) But you'll find great books, both new and used; and a friendly staff. They're right downtown at 964 Pearl Street. Stop by.