Article: Escape to Napa: raise a glass of local wine to the ever-growing gay life in this divine California valley.

Though the Napa Valley is barely a two-hour drive from my San Francisco home, I succumbed to its charms only recently, after several years of avoidance. I'm a city girl who loves Thai takeout, and I usually buy my wine from the corner deli. I just couldn't see myself bellying up to a tasting moneyed wine connoisseurs or spending months on speed dial to get a table at the famous French Laundry restaurant in Yountville (and spending $500 once I get in).

But after hearing gay friends rave about nearby Calistoga's mud baths and small-town charms, I had to experience Napa. And besides, autumn, with its smells of wood smoke and crushed grapes in the air, is the best ...

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