TRAVEL: Wine Country, Two Ways

Nora Zelevansky
5 min readJan 31, 2023
Stanly Ranch in Napa Valley

Here’s a weird thing: I love wine country. But I don’t drink wine.

I know, I know. I actually adore it and still take the occasional sip. But, in my late twenties, I developed an allergy to alcohol and I can’t really drink it anymore.

At least not in the quantity I want.

And yet the bucolic vineyards and windy roads of Northern California still call to me…

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Nora Zelevansky

New novel: COMPETITIVE GRIEVING (Blackstone). New nonfiction: ROLL RED ROLL (Hachette ). Bylines: NY Times, T&C, WSJ etc. https://norazelevansky.com/