California Travel Tips
Days of Sonoma wine and roses
Published on: May 03, 2019
Pictured: Russian River Rose Company, California’s ONLY perfume rose fields, hosts Peak Bloom Perfume Rose Oil Harvest Demos May 4-5, 2019, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $2 Donation. No reservations required.
Days of Sonoma wine and roses
By: Barbara Steinberg, “Are You That Woman”
As symbols of love, hope and passion, roses are said to have miraculous healing powers and are legendary for soothing both heart and soul.
“Rose is a rose is a rose,” American writer Gertrude Stein so dismissively said, but clearly she had never toured the rose gardens of Sonoma County. This is the time of year to see Sonoma’s flowery bounty at its best. This pastoral landscape is filled with rose-inspired escapades of varying colors, fragrances, and form.
- Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa offers a Wine, Roses & Romance Package.
- Santa Rosa’s Luther Burbank Rose Parade & Festival May 18, 2019, celebrates pays homage to the city’s namesake Saint Rose in this rose-rich community.
- Built in 1907, Hotel La Rose in downtown Santa Rosa is truly Old World.
- Tudor Rose English Tea Room in Santa Rosa offers more than a dozen teas, including the wonderfully aromatic Tudor Rose.
- At places such as Flowers Vineyard & Winery, one of approx.425 wineries in Sonoma County, guests can sip rosé and other world famous wines.
- Garden Valley Ranch in Petaluma cuts 5,000 long-stemmed roses daily from more than 300 varieties May-October.
- Accessible by guided tours mid-April to mid-October, Korbel Champagne Cellars in Guerneville showcases more than 100 varieties of antique roses.
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