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New Napa Wine Train route to open
A new Napa Wine Train route which will drop off wine tourists directly outside Robert Mondavi, Charles Krug, Merryvale and V Sattui wineries is set to open.
It is the first time in the Napa Valley Wine Train’s 27-year history that it will provide a tour service to Upvalley wineries.
The service, called Quattro Vino, has been launched by Wine Train owners Noble House Hotels & Resorts and Brooks Street, which bought the business from the DeDomenico family in September last year.
The one-car train will take Napa wine enthusiasts for a six-hour, 36-mile tour up and down the Napa valley, stopping at the Robert Mondavi, Charles Krug, Merryvale and V Sattui wineries in Oakville and St Helena. A second car will be added shortly, the Wine Train owners said.
The new tour costs $249 per person and is set to launch on June 1, the Napa Valley Register reported.
“We are incredibly excited to launch the Quattro Vino Tour as a new Napa Valley Wine Train offering,” Pat Colee, chairman and founder of Noble House, said.
Prior to the change of ownership in 2015, the Wine Train focused on one-way train excursions on which wineries were then reached by bus or shuttle.
While those tours will continue, passengers taking the Quattro Vino tours will be able to hop off the train and walk directly to the wineries adjacent to the tracks.
Noble House has made several small updates to the Wine Train, including an interior makeover that will bring “a hip and contemporary vibe” while preserving the “classic elegance and charm” of the cars, Colee said.
Last month the drinks business reported how the previous owners of the Napa Wine Train had reached an out of court settlement with a group of black women who filed a racial discrimination lawsuit after being ejected from one of the train tours for “offensive laughter”.