MOON NORTHERN CALIFORNIA WINE COUNTRY

Moon Handbooks give you the tools to make your own choices, with
• Can’t-miss sights, activities, restaurants, and accommodations, marked with
• Suggestions on how to plan a trip that’s perfect for you, including:
   One Week in Wine Country
   A Romantic Weekend
   Redwoods and Rivers
   Varietal Tours
   More Than Just Wine
• 31 detailed and easy-to-use maps
• The firsthand experience and unique perspectives of author Philip Goldsmith

Moon Northern California Wine Country
2nd Edition
Philip Goldsmith
ISBN 1-59880-078-7
ISBN-13 978-1-59880-078-4
$19.95
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Endless moves as a child, including a year long stint in North Africa, made Philip Goldsmith a travel addict from an early age. He has since lived and worked on two continents, forsaking the rain in his native England for the California sun, and clocked up some impressive airline mileage as a globe-trotting business journalist and a wayward traveler in search of personal misadventure. He has survived flash floods in Malaysia, been stranded on a train in Spain, fallen off the Great Wall in China, and tumbled down the side of a volcano in El Salvador. Still, his desire for unusual new experiences remains as strong as ever.

It helped that Philip inadvertently chose the right career path. After putting in more hours working on the student newspaper at the University of London than on his degree in chemistry, it was no surprise that he found it easier to get a job as a journalist than as a scientist. More than a decade later, however, he once again found himself learning about chemistry—the chemistry of wine.

Philip’s introduction to the joys of wine might have come from watching his father drink large quantities of the stuff to get through many stressful family holidays in France. More likely, however, he acquired his expensive wine habit as a journalist who was wined and dined in style by some of Europe’s biggest corporations. Many companies wasted many bottles of fine Bordeaux on Philip before he learned to appreciate them.

Now Philip has a very European attitude to enjoying wine and hopes to live to a ripe old age by drinking a glass every day. When he’s not writing, traveling, or working hard to extend his life at local wineries, Philip often seeks out adventure in the great outdoors of the wine country, whether mountain biking in the Santa Cruz Mountains, hiking in Mendocino, or canoeing down the mighty Russian River in Sonoma. All are within easy reach of his home in San Francisco. You can read more about Philip’s wine country experiences and observations at www.winenomad.com.