Explore legendary Napa and Sonoma, with its phenomenal cycling, luxe lodging, elegant dining, wine tasting and spas.

Your wine country bike tour starts on a Sunday morning with complimentary hotel and airport pickups in Santa Rosa. We shuttle to a nearby winery to start cycling. We ride through vineyards and stop at an olive press for an olive oil tasting, visit Sebastiani and Buena Vista wineries, two of California’s oldest wineries, en route to our lodging for the night — MacArthur Place near the historic plaza in Sonoma. Sonoma was founded in 1823 as the most northerly of the Spanish missions linking California to Mexico, and seven different national flags have flown there since. MacArthur Place was built there in the 1850s as a grand estate on 300 acres of vineyards and ranchland. It has been beautifully transformed into an opulent inn that has won high praise from many magazines, including Conde Nast Traveler.

On Monday we leave the birthplace of the California wine industry and cycle on side roads through miles of vineyards in the Carneros Region to the world-renowned Napa Valley. We have lunch at a winery, then ride north on the old stagecoach road — the Silverado Trail — past more wineries to St. Helena.

Our lodging for the next two nights is the gracious Napa River Inn, situated on two and a half acres of riverfront property. A short walk leads you to the center of upscale St. Helena with its many superb restaurants, chic boutiques and art galleries.

Tuesday you may wish to go hot-air ballooning, hike into the foothills, take one of several great optional bike rides or get a spa treatment - take your pick!

Wednesday we cycle north into the Alexander Valley of Sonoma County, stopping for lunch at the homey Field Stone Winery, where the manager often takes us for a private tour. In the afternoon we ride winding, quiet roads through the peaceful vineyards of Dry Creek Valley. We spend the next two nights in Healdsburg at the Hotel Healdsburg, an upscale hotel with a full service spa located right on the plaza. Superb shopping, art galleries, wine tasting shops, and several great restaurants are within a few blocks of our hotel.

On Thursday we offer a bicycle ride to the far end of Dry Creek Valley. Along the way we’ll stop at the Ferrari-Carano Winery, which we feel has the most elegant grounds and buildings of any winery in California. After a picnic lunch at Lake Sonoma, we return to our inn via West Dry Creek Road. This winding, lightly traveled road hugs the foothills on the west side of the vineyards of Sonoma Valley. Many wineries will tempt you to stop and taste.

On Friday, you may want to stop and visit Hop Kiln Winery, Korbel Champagne Cellars, and several other wineries we cycle by as we exit Sonoma Valley and follow the Russian River into the redwoods. After walking around Armstrong Redwoods State Reserve’s magnificent grove of old-growth giants, we cycle on side roads to the mouth of the Russian River. From your vantage point high on a bluff in a state park, you’ll look down on the beautiful rocky Pacific Coast. We conclude with a shuttle back to Santa Rosa.