“Over the last decade, wineries have begun to rethink the whole tasting experience and investing in upscale settings, with prices to match.

If your image of a winery tasting room in Napa or Sonoma is a long bar dotted with open bottles and black plastic spit buckets no one uses anyway, you’re out of date. New tasting rooms are opening at twice the rate of new wineries, a trend that isn’t always welcomed by local residents, who complain about traffic.”

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