Wine country in California is more about generalized "alcohol tourism" these days. My wife and I usually do a week a year out there combining wine country and visiting our son (who lives in Berkeley). Since he is very into beer, we alternated wine and beer tasting. The beer scene is a lot of fun. An advantage is that while the wineries keep farmer's hours (close at 5 or even 4 pm????) the beer tasting rooms keep drinker's hours.I think it's still mostly about wine, just not for me. I like bitter. Russian River is opening a new brewpub in Windsor, and you probably know about Lagunitas. And there are several smaller breweries ( Henhouse, Cooperage, Twisted Goat to name a few.You could do a nice pub crawl...