Exploring California Wine Country: Sonoma Valley

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Pleasures abound in California's historic birthplace

Tim Fish
Issue: June 15, 2008

There are beautiful wine roads all over the world, rambling through Tuscany and Provence, or along the Rhine in Germany's Rheingau. But you needn't cross the ocean to find some. The route coming into Kenwood as you drive north through Sonoma Valley, the mountains ribbed with hillside vineyards, is in the same league.

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