The tasting list, in the right order.
A car and chauffeur for the day, routed around appointment times, lunch, and the drive home that nobody in the group wants to make.
All-inclusive fare, quoted upfront. Free cancellation: 6 hours for airport pickups, 24 hours for hourly and point-to-point.
Airport transfers need 6+ hours’ notice; everything else needs 24+. For a last-minute ride, text +1 (408) 883-9848 with your full name, the pick-up address, your flight number if it is an airport pick-up, the drop-off address and anything else we should know. You can also call, or email support@pblimo.com.
A tasting day falls apart on timing. Appointments run long, lunch runs longer, and the drive between two valleys is never as quick as the map suggests.
We build the route outward from your bookings, with a chauffeur who knows the roads and how long each stop actually takes. The car stays with you all day, cases go in the back, and nobody in the group has to stay sober to drive.
What a tasting day actually needs
Napa and Sonoma are close together on a map and further apart in practice. Most of a good day is decided by pacing, and by who is not drinking.
It is the whole reason the day works. Everyone tastes, nobody watches the clock on someone else's behalf, and the drive between valleys stops being the thing one person is dreading.
What you buy goes in the trunk rather than on the back seat in the afternoon sun, and it stays with the car between stops. If you are shipping instead, say so and we will plan the last stop around it.
Tasting rooms run long and a day without a proper stop in the middle of it turns into a rushed afternoon. We build lunch in when we build the route, at a time that fits between the appointments you have already made.
The route is built from your bookings, not the other way around.
Drivers who know the valley roads and how long each stop really takes.
Half or full day, with the car yours throughout and cases in the trunk.
A one-day Napa itinerary from San Francisco
An example, not a fixed route. We build the day backwards from whichever appointments you have already made — this is roughly how the timings fall when we start from scratch.
- Collected in San FranciscoFrom your hotel or address. Water and a phone cable are in the car; the route over the bridge is chosen on the morning's traffic rather than the map.
- First tasting, CarnerosThe southern end of the valley is the natural first stop — sparkling houses and cooler-climate whites, and it is the first thing you reach coming up from the city.
- Second tasting, Oakville or RutherfordThe heart of the valley floor and the cabernet houses most people picture when they picture Napa.
- Lunch, Yountville or St HelenaBooked with the rest of the day rather than squeezed in. An hour and a half is the honest allowance; less and the afternoon feels rushed.
- Third tasting, St Helena or CalistogaFurther north as the afternoon opens up. Anything you buy goes into the trunk and stays with the car.
- A fourth, if the day is going wellOptional, and decided on the day. Three tastings and a proper lunch is a complete day; four is a good one.
- Leave the valleyAhead of the commute back into the city, which is the difference between an easy drive home and ninety minutes of it.
- Back in San FranciscoDoor to door, with nobody in the party having driven.
Book your own tastings and send us the confirmations — we build the day around them.
Someone else drives home
The last hour of a tasting day is the one people regret booking themselves. Yours ends in the back seat, with the cases in the trunk and the route already worked out.
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