The Top 11 Things to Do Near Auro
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Insignia, the estate's flagship Bordeaux-style blend, is the reason most visitors make the turn onto Taplin Road. Joseph Phelps is a hillside Napa winery with panoramic vineyard views and several tasting formats, from a current-releases pour to a library session that pulls older vintages of Insignia alongside the newest ones. The World's 50 Best Vineyards ranks it at number 37, which tracks with the crowd, who tend to arrive having done their homework.
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The tasting room's camera-aperture architecture, all dramatic angles and floor-to-ceiling glass, was designed to pull your eye toward the vineyards outside, which is a neat trick given what's in the glass. Aperture Cellars pours Bordeaux-inspired Sonoma wines across a few tasting tiers, from introductory blends up to a private gallery session with limited releases. A rotating photography exhibition runs throughout. It holds a spot on the World's 50 Best Vineyards list.
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Bardessono's spa built its reputation on a simple but unusual idea: the treatment comes to your room. Each suite has a massage table tucked discreetly away, and the lighting, temperature, and sound are all adjustable before the therapist arrives. Products are sourced from the property's certified-organic garden. Vogue named it among the 100 Best Spas in the World, and the unhurried post-treatment wind-down is treated with the same seriousness as the treatment itself.
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A 12,000-square-foot wellness circuit at Stanly Ranch in Napa, Halehouse Spa is designed for people who bring the same intensity to recovery that they bring to everything else. The setup runs in three parts: a movement studio, a recovery space using heat, cold, and steam, and the spa itself. Vogue named it among its 100 Best Spas in the World, which tracks given that the surrounding valley treats well-being less like a weekend treat and more like a performance metric.