Welcome to the Napa WineWalksm

Downtown Napa, the heart of Napa Valley's biggest town, has a large and concentrated collection of wine tasting locations. Currently there are 21 of them; and more are on the way. You can walk from one tasting room to another in minutes (sometimes it's right next door), and experience wines from more than 150 different wineries.

You'll notice that as you walk, you'll also pass many of Napa's finest restaurants. Do yourself a favor, and stop in during or after your walk for a thoroughly enjoyable meal, whether it be lunch, dinner or a midafternoon snack.

Most wines available for tasting on the Napa WineWalksm 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 WineWalksm can vary from an ounce to a full glass. There's a fee, of course, but the Napa WineWalksm 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 more information.)

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?

Join us on the Napa WineWalksm.

Note: Many of these businesses accept the "Taste Napa Downtown" card which for one fee lets you taste wines at many different places. For more information, see the Napa Downtown website.