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Article: Sonoma County's vineyards and gardens reveal nature's bounty.(Travel)
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- April 10, 2003
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Byline: Susan LaTempa
Special to the Herald
HEALDSBURG, Calif. - From the red blush of the region's signature Zinfandel wine to a perfume rose harvest tour, northwest Sonoma County is a bouquet of pastoral pleasures.
Spring is the ideal time to tour wine country, especially here where not only grapevines but roses, lavender and fruit trees abound, reflecting the area's rich and diverse agricultural traditions.
Unlike Napa Valley, where the single highway is often snarled with traffic on weekends and huge corporate wineries cater to the tour-bus trade with gigantic gift shops, Sonoma is a large geographic area with several two-lane ...