St. Helena Luxury Hotels & Destination
St. Helena, CA
The Napa Valley has attracted luxury hotel guests for years. The exquisite scenery and the sophisticated surroundings have been a balm to the busy city life of many luxury hotel guests. In the heart of this paradise is a small town called St. Helena. St. Helena offers the best of the Napa Valley, and is the perfect place to situate yourself on a Napa Valley luxury hotel vacation. St. Helena is quaint, charming and always stylish. St. Helena luxury hotels are even more so: elegant, small and surrounded by the beautiful Napa Valley scenery, they exist as some of the finest luxury hotels in Northern California. Outside your luxury hotel there is plenty to discover on the streets of St. Helena. The famous Napa Valley cuisine is at its finest in St. Helena, as is shopping and art buying. Sophisticated luxury hotel travelers have long known St. Helena as the ideal wine country vacation destination. St. Helena is the heart of Napa Valley, but offers so much more than wine! A luxury hotel vacation to St. Helena will insinuate you into one the most appealing places in California.
St. Helena Wineries
Of course, no luxury hotel vacation to the St. Helena wine country would be complete without spending a great deal of time sampling and appreciating the wine bounty that surrounds your St. Helena luxury hotel. Within the town of St. Helena is grown every kind of grape for every type of wine. More than twenty wineries are within minutes of your St. Helena luxury hotel. One of the best ways to try a variety of vintners in one place on your luxury hotel vacation is to go to A Dozen Vintners Wine Tasting, in downtown St. Helena, which features wines not just from St. Helena but all over the world. The staff at A Dozen Vintners will be wine experts and able to answer all your questions. If you would like to venture out to specific wineries on your St. Helena luxury hotel vacation, you can count on each one being unique and special. Sutter home Family Vineyards is the biggest name in St. Helena, and they offer complimentary tastings at their Highway 29 location. Merryvale Winery is smaller profile but has the distinction of being the first winery in the Napa Valley after the repeal of Prohibition in 1933. Luxury hotel guests rave about the Signature and Prestige wine lines. Located just minutes from your St. Helena luxury hotel, in Rutherford, is Mumm Napa Valley, which is consistently rated as one of the best tasting rooms in Napa and offers private tours and tastings for luxury hotel guests. Luxury hotel guests who Merlot and cabernet lovers should not miss a trip to Duckhorn Vineyards in St. Helena, which has award winning varietals in a beautiful location, complete with an old-fashioned wrap-around porch. Also at many of the St. Helena wineries is olive oil tastings. Olive oil tastings are quickly growing in prestige and joining wine as a premier activity in the Napa Valley. St. Helena is an olive oil epicenter and offers plenty of places to experience some of the finest in the world on your St. Helena luxury hotel vacation.
St. Helena Activities
For luxury hotel guests who would like to see Napa Valley outside of the wineries, St. Helena is the perfect place. The small, up-scale downtown area of St. Helena offers a plethora of cultural activities for luxury hotel guests. The Silverado Museum houses one of the largest collections of acclaimed author Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) in the world. Robert Louis Stevenson spent his honeymoon in an abandoned bunkhouse on the slope of Mt. Helena, spurring the cultural devotion to him from the town. You need not be a literature fan to enjoy the fascinating life of Robert Louis Stevenson on a luxury hotel vacation. Another great place to visit on your St. Helena luxury hotel vacation is Elmshaven National Historic Landmark, which is the last home of the founder of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. But the best cultural activities to take advantage of on a St. Helena luxury hotel vacation are the kinds that involve food, a Napa Valley specialty. The Culinary Institute of America is one of the most venerated culinary schools in the United States and has a beautiful campus in St. Helena. The beautiful, sprawling campus is worth a stroll on your luxury hotel vacation, but inside is plenty to discover as well. Cooking demonstrations take place every Saturday and Sunday and include tasting and a recipe. Taking a cooking class is another St. Helena luxury hotel guest favorite: create small plates and learn how to pair individual foods with wine. While at the C.I.A., spin by the Spice Islands Marketplace which has every culinary tool, cookware and specialty food product you could imagine.
St. Helena Gastronomy
As the home to the Culinary Institute of America, the cuisine on a St. Helena luxury hotel vacation is first-class. Some of the best food in the world is produced within the city limits. Market is a high-end American restaurant whose chefs shop at the local farmers market. Organic foods and seasonal ingredients are hallmarks of this popular downtown St. Helena restaurant. For a more casual, alfresco setting on your St. Helena luxury hotel vacation, try Vercelli Ristorante, which is a light-hearted restaurant with bright yellow and red walls and has delicious Italian food on an ever-changing menu. One of the highest-end and most famous restaurants in St. Helena is Tra Vigne, which is perfect for a special night out on your luxury hotel vacation: just make sure to have reservations at this world-famous restaurant. Tra Vigne also has a more casual pizzeria, Pizzeria Tra Vigne, that is great for a casual bite on your St. Helena luxury hotel vacation. One of the best ways to see the cuisine that St. Helena offers on your luxury hotel vacation is to simply take to Main Street and see what is around you. As one of the premier luxury hotel destinations for foodies around the world, St. Helena will never disappoint and always surprise.
St. Helena Shopping
On the flip side of dining is shopping, another favorite activity of St. Helena luxury hotel guests. Boutiques selling designer clothing abound: but there are several small, unique shops that are fun to visit on a St. Helena luxury hotel vacation. The Napa Valley Toy Company has something for everyone in a fun, light-hearted atmosphere, while Toss Designs sells everything from luggage to hostess gifts. Woodhouse Chocolate is a perfect stop for every luxury hotel guest with a sweet tooth: the European style chocolate and confections are awe-inspiring. Stop by the St. Helena Wine Center for everything wine related, including olive oil, decanters and high-end spirits. Luxury hotel guests who are interested in purchasing or simply perusing art will find sophisticated galleries to enjoy on Main Street in St. Helena; included in this is Art on Main, which has traditional mediums and bronze sculptures. Of course, like many of the best cities surrounded by beautiful farmland, the best place to shop on a St. Helena luxury hotel vacation at the Farmers Market, which is in spectacular Crane Park every Friday morning May through October. This is the place to find fresh, organic produce as well as special souvenirs of your St. Helena luxury hotel vacation, including honey, jams and jellies, and homemade jewelry.
St. Helena is the heart of the Napa Valley: the sophistication and simple elegance of this wine-country town has lured luxury hotel guests for years. Book your beautiful luxury hotel accommodations today and enjoy one of the finest luxury hotel vacation destinations in the world.
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