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Napa & Sonoma, A Love Affair in Maps - NEW BOOK - Taking Orders 
ISBN: 978-1-931163-32-3 RETAIL Price: $11.95 (plus shipping)
Designed with the day trip in mind, with plenty of easy to read maps, planned theme tours, large fonts, and short chapters about the most important aspects of enjoying Wine Country, for a day or three. This is designed to be used in a car with the top down and the wind blowing through your hair. It includes a contact directory of the 450 wineries in the two counties that happily welcome visitors.

It includes:
How to create the best day trip strategy, what to wear, how to stretch your tasting endurance and understanding how to most enjoy the tasting room experience. If you have the Smart Phone Apps this books works synergistically with them.
 
Wholesale Customers: It is that time of year, the canes are being pruned on the vines and Ralph & Lahni are taking orders for books. The form below is for wholesale orders only. Please fill out the quantity next to the books name. We will confirm by email. Expect delivery in May. Wholesale Discount: 50% off cover price, Terms Net 30 Days from delivery. Minimum 12 books.  You can also call us at 707-235-2648. Please make checks payable to Space and Time Designing Inc. Thank you
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Wine Country Books 2011

The Amicis Winery Guides are the book series that experienced travelers rely upon. Filled with good advice and great maps, they provide a local guide's insights about maximizing the tasting room experience while safely navigating these country roads. They include numerous mapped tours, a comprehensive winery directory, plus restaurant, hotels and B&B directories. It was created by Ralph & Lahni of Amicis Tours.

These books will help you make the most of your visit.
They were created to answer the five questions:
What to expect in the winery?
What to wear?
Do we have a good map?
Doe we have a route that won't waste our time?
Where should we eat?

The current titles include:
Napa & Sonoma, A Love Affair in Maps
Dream Tours of Napa & Sonoma
Napa Dream Tours
Sonoma Dream Tours
Guidelines for the Hospitality Professional
The Wine Diet, It's Not Just for Breakfast Anymore!

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Amicis Winery Guide: Dream Tours of Napa & Sonoma 3rd Edition
ISBN: 978-1-931163-22-4 Price: $21.95 (plus shipping)
This is the wine tourist’s most comprehensive guide for enjoying both Napa and Sonoma, with 70 maps, 31 planned theme tours, and a detailed directory of 450 wineries that happily welcome visitors.

It includes:
How to create the best daytrip strategy, what to wear, how to stretch your tasting endurance and understanding how to most enjoy the tasting room experience. Plus, the keys for finding the best picnic spots and restaurants, shopping, lodgings and scenic drives.

Plus, how to economically ship wine, enjoyably travel with kids, join wine clubs, hire a car and driver, and much more! Increasingly popular in its third year, the Guide is a great tool for planning multiple trips to wine country. Also available on Amazon for international clients.  



Napa Dream Tours, 3rd Edition
Book, 5.5 x 8.5, 224 pagesISBN#: 978-1-931163-21-9  $14.95  (plus shipping)

For touring Napa this guide provides 44 Easy Driving Maps and 21 detailed, Connect-the-Dots Dream Tours. These are based on popular themes and include the area’s Best Picnic Spots and Favorite Restaurants. 
           
The tours include directions, driving tips, practical, yet scenic routes, and lunch stops. Other wineries are shown along the routes to encourage travelers to customize the tours for individual tastes and diversions. 
           
The 250 Winery Directory includes the important details, with map references, plus insights from professional tour guides based on visitor feedback. Directory listings include ‘Nearby Wineries’ to help visitors put together easy tours, and ‘tricky to find’ locations include navigation tips. There are also market, restaurant and lodging directories to help plan your trip to Wine Country.
 
 



Sonoma Dream Tours, 3rd Edition 
Book, 5.5 x 8.5, 180 pages 
ISBN#: 978-1-931163-20-o $14.95  (plus shipping)

For touring Napa this guide provides 29 Easy Driving Maps and 10 detailed, Connect-the-Dots Dream Tours. These are based on popular themes and include the area’s Best Picnic Spots and Favorite Restaurants. 
           
The tours include directions, driving tips, practical, yet scenic routes, and lunch stops. Other wineries are shown along the routes to encourage travelers to customize the tours for individual tastes and diversions. 
           
The 200 Winery Directory includes the important details, with map references, plus insights from professional tour guides based on visitor feedback. Directory listings include ‘Nearby Wineries’ to help visitors put together easy tours, and ‘tricky to find’ locations include navigation tips. There are also market, restaurant and lodging directories to help plan your trip to Wine Country.




The Wine Diet
It’s Not Just for Breakfast Anymore
Book, 5.5 x 8.5, 136 pages, Color Photos
ISBN#: 978-1-931163-23-1  $14.95 
 (plus shipping) 
Wine tourism is the best kind of adult entertainment, a wonderfully social mix of education, scenery, flavors and inebriation. This helpful collection of insights about wine country comes from the creators of the Amicis Winery Guides series.

They are, coincidentally Guides and Naturopathic Physicians. When they suggest you drink two glasses of wine and call them in the morning, they know what they’re talking about. This is what they share with clients to help them feel more comfortable in the tasting room and more knowledgeable at the dinner table.

They offer guidelines about the healthiest way to consume wine and insights about the joys of traveling among the vineyards. This insider’s perspective of wine tasting and travel is paired with the authors’ beautiful collection of photos of vineyards and wineries.




Amicis Winery Guides:
Guidelines for the Hospitality Professional
Book, 5.5 x 8.5, 94 pages
ISBN#: 978-1-931163-24-8 $14.95  (plus shipping)
 
A business that combines travel, maps, logistics, food, wine, scenery, and shopping, all while the customer’s level of inebriation increases, has the potential for incredible chaos. Turning that potential into a graceful dance of pleasurable experiences takes some planning and flexibility.
 
‘Guidelines’ is a collection of tried and true systems and techniques gathered from within the Wine Country hospitality community. It was designed using an easy to read format interspersed with photos of beautiful wineries.




Reviews of Dream Tours of Napa & Sonoma

This book is packed full of helpful hints that are useful for both the first-time visitor and those returning to enjoy the area again and again. Whether you are visiting for a day or a week, this is the book that you want to have handy. I hope this book will be translated into Japanese.
- Emiko Kaufman, Author, Publisher of Wine Talk (A popular Japanese Wine Blog)

Without a doubt the most helpful, detailed and practical guide I’ve seen for touring wine country, no matter what your level of wine knowledge.
- Jeneen Summerton, Tour Director

This book is detailed and easy to read.  I would say that it is perfect guide for first timers traveling to the Napa Valley. 
- Gena O,   Concierge

Sonoma Wine Country Map
Map from Sonoma Dream Tours
Color Photo from Napa Wine Country
Page from the Wine Diet
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