Hotels

The Wine Country Inn
www.winecountryinn.com

The Wine Country Inn is right off the main highway, turn right on Lodi Lane, and you will see signs to the left at the first street. A new vineyard is being planted and the entire view now will be fabulous. This is perhaps the best value in the valley with each room a little different, wine and cheese in the evening, and breakfast in the morning. Great, friendly staff, and great help and advice of where to go and what to see. The owner and his wife were working the desk, taking reservations, and the entire staff was always very helpful and friendly. A neat trick I found was that you can spend time at the nearby wineries or go down to Deer Park Road, make a left, and you are on the Siverado Highway--left is Duckhorn. It seems you can only buy their wine at their winery --you need an appointment for a tour, but once you've seen how wine is made, you basically have seen them all as the process is very similar. You can buy wine here anytime and that is a definetely worth a visit and turning right from Deer Park, there are more places than you can visit in a week.

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