Thank you, Amya! We love working with Army. He has been guiding wine tours for us full-time for over fifteen years, and I would be very surprised if any tour guide in this whole region has more experience or better winery relationships than he does. We're so pleased to be working with him still after all this time. Also, we will always try to serve our tour lunches in the most attractive winery picnic grounds we are able to book on any of our tours. I'm so glad you loved that aspect of the tour!

I'm so glad you loved Courtney's tour! This is her first season guiding our join-in tours, and she seems to be picking it up so quickly. I appreciate the winery feedback, too; we are always reaching out to new wineries to improve our selection for these tours. Thanks for posting!

It's so great to hear that your first visit to our beautiful region was so enjoyable, and that you so loved Courtney! We feel the same way about her. It is not uncommon for the winery founders and wine makers to appear and spend time with our groups during our visits, which is one of the big treats of visiting these smaller backroads wineries. Hope we'll see you again sometime soon!

Thanks so much, Slayman! Everybody loves Army. We have had the great fortune of having him on our tour guide team for almost fifteen years, and I can't even calculate the number of tour guests he has delighted for us over that time. Go, Army!

Sam is such a treat! He is another guide who has been doing a fantastic job for us for over ten years! He is lively, curious and entertaining every day. Also, even I am amazed by everything he knows about this region, and by his compelling story-telling (Sam was voted tour guide of the year by the Napa and Sonoma hotel concierges, and mostly because they've heard so many of their guests raving about his tours over the years!) Thanks for posting!

I appreciate that feedback very much, and I'm delighted that your private tour with us met your needs and your expectations so well! For private tours, our guests often have places or experiences they are really hoping for, and we'll always take the time to understand just what those are and then do our very best to pull that specific tour day together. Other guests have only general ideas of what would constitute an ideal tour day, and we're very happy to accommodate them as well. On your tour day, your guide can be as interactive or as unobtrusive as you prefer. Again, different private tours call for different skills, and we know the difference. Best wishes!