If you want to elevate your next California wine-tasting journey, think about a fall trip to Yosemite National Park.
The landmark Ahwahnee Hotel offers multi-day food and wine events that have been a tradition for more than three decades.
Called the Vintners' Holidays (so named because they're after the grape harvest), sessions highlight 24 wines in groups of four and the people who make them.
Each session features wine tastings and seminars, a reception in which you'll meet some of the winemakers, and "rare or limited-release wines" paired with a five-course dinner prepared by the hotel's executive chef, Percy Whatley.