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Bed & Breakfast Inns of Napa Valley - For more than twenty years, the Bed & Breakfast Inns of Napa Valley have offered quintessential excellence in lodging by maintaining the highest standards for member B&Bs. Only licensed professional properties are recommended to travelers seeking a unique and quality stay in the heart of the Wine Country.

Calistoga Spas and Lodging - Body Treatments, massage, stone therapy, mud baths, hot springs geysers, hydrotherapy and more.

Christopher's Inn - Our new luxury suites feature fireplaces, as do several units in the original three buildings. Several suites have jacuzzis placed so that you may enjoy a spa while watching a cheery fire glow. Fresh flowers adorn the carefully selected antique furnishings and Laura Ashley designer interiors.

Cottage Grove Inn is a cluster of storybook cottages located in an old grove of elm trees at the edge of Calistoga. While the cottages all have the same luxury features, each cottage has a unique theme which adds to the charm and character and makes each visit a memorable experience.  

Golden Haven Spa - Nestled in the heart of the Napa Valley, in the beautiful town of Calistoga, Golden Haven Hot Springs makes the perfect wine country getaway. Come and experience the magic of the healing mineral waters and rejuvenating spa treatments.

Lavender Hill Spa - Just a few steps from historic downtown Calistoga you will find a hidden treasure. Nestled into a beautifully terraced garden hillside is Lavender Hill Spa. A harmonious blend of the Napa Valleys natural beauty with exotic Asian influenced statuary and art create the perfect setting for high quality spa treatments.ecommended. 1-800-528-4772 or 707-942-4495.

Napa Valley Restaurants - Rick's Dining Guide is your guide to culinary excellence featuring a quick reference guide to menu pages, websites, phone numbers and location of Napa Valley restaurants. Dining in Napa Valley is food for the soul. Here, you’ll find the gracious selection that completes your visit to Napa Valley.

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Taste of Yountville
By LAUREN CHAPIN, The Kansas City Star
March 9, 2008
Under a sharp, clear March sun, the esteemed grape vines of Napa Valley stand in formation like a troop of stooped old men and women. Yet all around the brown, naked vines, knee-high fields of blistering yellow wild mustard wave and flutter.In the mountainside vineyards, close-cropped ewes plod among the rows of trellised vines, nibbling on tufts of grass here and there. Their lambs — not interested in food that has to be chewed — scamper and play. In early March the vineyards are as tidy as 18-hole golf courses.The sheep are a more subdued version of the same proclamation: It’s spring in Napa Valley. As soon as buds break on the vines, they will be banished, their days as weed eaters over until after fall and the season’s grape harvest.

Where in Napa Valley
By Marsha Dorganand Mike Treleven
February 24, 2008
A patriotic red, white and blue water tower, a soothing cascading water feature downtown and a stone chimney standing sentry in a vineyard together provide another piece to what makes the Napa Valley what it is. These three icons are clues for this month’s “Where In The Napa Valley?” It was just after 9/11 that Hank and Linda Bathey decided to build the three-story, patriotic water tower that faces Monticello Road, just east of Silverado Trail. The tower is not only a tribute to the United States troops serving abroad, but also is the fire protection source for Bathey’s property that surrounds the water tower. Bathey brought the bought the property. . . Continued

Calistoga - Midweek Napa Valley spa getaways
Los Angleles Times
February 29, 2008
If you need a reason to head off the radar for a couple of days before the weekend, this is it: Midweek spa specials are the flavor of the season in Napa Valley’s Calistoga. Included with a room-for-two in Mount View Hotel & Spa’s package are two spa treatments: Each guest receives a 25-minute hydrotherapy bath plus a Swedish massage or a facial (both 50 minutes). The total package is $319 (pre-tax), which includes an in-room Continental breakfast, available Sundays through Thursdays until April 30. You’ve got to act a little more quickly before relaxing into Chelsea Garden Inn’s midweek special, which ends March 16. Guests receive a choice of bath treatments (tubs o’ mud, minerals or seaweed are among the enticing smorgasbord of options) at nearby Lavender Hill Spa, followed by a 30-minute massage. This package costs $330 (pre-tax) Which should I . . . Continued

Put a cork in it
By vince Beiser, Featurewell.com
April 23, 2008
From the tasting rooms of Napa Valley to five-star restaurants -- in fact, wherever wine is quaffed -- the satisfying pop of a cork is giving way to the unglamorous crink-crank of a screw top. That's upsetting not just to tradition-minded oenophiles, but to environmentalists as well. Vintners have been sealing their bottles with corks since at least the 16th century. But corks can have a critical flaw: they sometimes give the wine a musty, mouldy smell and taste. "It's like wet cardboard," says George Taber, author of the recently released To Cork or Not to Cork: Tradition, Romance, Science and the Battle for the Wine Bottle. Depending on which studies you believe, anywhere from three to 15 per cent of all bottles with cork sealers turn up thus tainted. This problem has been around for centuries, but took . . .

Odd Bedfellows - Wine and Mud
Written by Kristen Ball
February 19, 2008
Wine and mud may seem like odd bedfellows, but in Calistoga, Calif., on the northern edge of Napa Valley, the two go hand in hand. Tourists flock to this corner of wine country to dip themselves in the mineral rich mud and natural hot spring-fed pools at the spas that line downtown Calistoga, and of course enjoy the area’s most famous agricultural offspring, wine. The Lodges at Calistoga Ranch, a fractional ownership development on the property of a five-star hotel, is one of the few private residence clubs in Napa for those second home shoppers looking for an alternative to a traditional vacation home. Luxury hotel operator Auberge Resorts opened the Calistoga Ranch resort in 2004 and quickly added 27 Owner Lodges. One-tenth shares of 2,500 square foot two-bedroom villas go for $435,000. Owners are entitled to a minimum of two weeks of planned use a year and unlimited last minute trips, depending on availability. Exchanges are available with Esperanza, Auberge’s Cabo San Lucas resort, where there are . . . Continued