Smith Bruce is a travel journalist whose write-ups mainly focus on luxury and high living and has contributed several articles on Carmel Valley wine tour, Napa valley tour, San Francisco city tour etc and on San Francisco limousines services conducting such tours.
Located in Monterey County, Carmel Valley is known worldwide for its wineries, stunning pastoral scenery, pleasant climate, white sandy beaches, golf courses and pretty inns. People coming on a San Francisco city tour, usually take out a day or two for a Carmel valley wine tour. From the city of San Francisco, one can book a limo from San Francisco limousine rental companies and travel here in style.
Though valley’s real beauty lies in the outdoors but Carmel offers something for everyone. Let’s see the top activities that can be done during Carmel Valley wine tour.
Wine Tasting
Wine-tasting in Carmel Valley Village is a major draw for wine loving tourists. Due to the perfect combination of warm and cool climates, Carmel Valley is home to a tremendous variety of grapes. These vineyards add a unique charm to this place and entice people to plan an exclusive Carmel Valley wine tour. Here in Carmel Valley, all the major wine tasting rooms are located at close proximity to each other, so tourists can just walk around and have taste of different wines at one go.
Wineries
Most of the top Carmel Valley wineries are located along the beautiful Carmel Valley Road. And a Carmel Valley wine tour is incomplete without a visit to one or more of these small wineries. The top wineries are Chateau Julien, Heller Estate, Joullian Vineyards, Talbotts Vineyards, Bernardus Winery and Galante Vineyards. The Chateau Julien is the only winery in Carmel Valley that comes with a tasting room.
Hiking, Horse riding and Golfing
This bucolic valley has plenty of hiking treks for tourists coming to Carmel Valley Wine tour to spend some time in hiking. The 4500-acre Garland Ranch Regional Park located by the side of a river where hikers can climb up to 1800ft to get an aerial view of the valley.
Here you can also enjoy horse riding on the silent, wooded and guided trail ride at Holman Ranch or swim at the sea during the Carmel Valley Wine Tour. Golf lovers can spend a day playing golf at the premier Golf Club at Quail Lodge or the 36-hole course at Rancho Canada Golf Club.
Birding
Bird watchers can head towards the side of the main road way up the valley to have a look at the yellow-billed magpies.
Spa Treatments
For spa-savvy urbanites coming on a Carmel Valley Wine Tour, Bernardus is the right place to visit. Here one can spend a day for stone massages, Vichy showers, Ayurvedic facials, Jacuzzi baths and lots more.
Shopping
The garden shops in Carmel Valley Village are beautiful and interesting to shop around. There garden shops sell everything from wind chimes and pottery to vintage patio-furniture sets. Here you can also shop for low-maintenance Mediterranean-climate plants and ornamental grasses.
Besides all these, there are many things to see and explore here during your Carmel valley wine tour. Just be sure that you book a limo from any reputed San Francisco limousine rental companies so that you can explore the place at your own pace.
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