Wildsam Field Guides: Napa & Sonoma leads travelers into the heart of California's wine country with guidance from trusted locals and wine experts. This handsome volume features a deep dedicated section of wine country travel and how-to wine-tasting guides, while also covering farming, the Sonoma Coast, pioneer, Indigenous and Black history, art and architecture, and much more.
NAPA & SONOMA
FIELD GUIDE
$20.00
“Rivers wind through cool, shady valleys not far from sunbaked, gnarly oaks. Sea breezes drift far inland through mountain gaps. Napa’s sunshine builds mighty cabernets, and winter lows only flirt with freezing. In Sonoma, startling chill after torrid days heralds the sea, with coast-born fogs key to both mood and
the land’s fertility.”
-THE EDITORS
WINE COUNTRY STORIES,
TRAVEL INTEL & MODERN LORE INCLUDING:
Interviews with winery founders Kashy Khaledi, Tony Coturri and Andrew Mariani
Heroic firefighters and obsessed vintners
An exploration of connections between Northern California cuisine and Mexican heritage, by the founder Rancho Gordo
Russian River poets, bottles of note, and other well-aged finds
Artist Arleene Correa Valencia and activist farmer Leslie Wiser tease out hidden stories behind the landscape’s legendary bounty
The pop culture evolution of wine from Dean Martin songs to Falcon Crest to Sideways
Original essays by renowned wine columnist Dorothy Gaiter, Sonoma tribal leader Greg Sarris, aficionado Frank Schoonmaker, and author Anne Goldman
Dive deeper with carefully chosen itineraries and picks, opening the world of wine for both curious explorers and seasoned tasters.
ILLUSTRATOR
LIANA JEGERS
Liana Jegers is an illustrator based in Los Angeles, California. Her work appears in Epicurious, Bon Appétit, the NY Times, and the LA Times.
“The mountains in Napa make it feel intimate, a sheltering environment for its dense concentration of vineyards. Sonoma is more expansive in its size and what it grows … and, I’ve always thought, in the type of people who live there. ”
- DOROTHY J. GAITER
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