Napa Valley is located at the Sonoma County in California which is very famous for its wine.

My destination to Sonoma County started at Sterling Vineyards, about 15 miles from Santa Rosa. This is one of the biggest private vineyards and provides tour and wine tasting for the visitors.

Entrance fees is USD 30 per person which includes the cable car ride, 6 different wine tasting, and factory tour.

This is where visitor gets to enjoy the beautiful scenery at Napa Valley.

A castle in the middle of the vineyards.

Autumn was approaching soon. The yellow color was actually the leaves turning brown.

Perhaps, this would be the most informative post in this blog.

How do you made wine?

There are 6 important steps in creating wine.

First of all, the grapes are picked from the yard and then send for crushing.

The grapes crushing machine. The crushed grapes, skin and seed are now called “must”

To create the white wine, the white grapes are immediately pressed after crushed.

Pressing section.

While the red wine will go straight to the fermentation machine.

The fermentation machine.

After the fermentation, then only the red wines are pressed to separate the wine and the skins.

This is where wines are stored and kept for a very long long time.

Wine storage room.

And then the last process will be bottling.

More comprehensive review coming up shortly.

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