What to eat with North Valley & Chico wines, on the trail and at home: local pairings that actually work.
Pairing here starts with the wines themselves: certified-organic mountain fruit poured downtown, winery-distillery evenings and foothill weekends on farm-family calendars.
Chico's restaurant blocks surround the LaRocca room, Almendra runs true evening hospitality with spirits beside the wine, and the farm stops reward a packed picnic
start at LaRocca's downtown Chico room for the certified-organic mountain estate, then Durham's Almendra-and-Bertagna double, before picking a foothill loop by calendar
Where kitchens are scarce, a cooler and a farm-stand stop turn any permitted picnic table into the best restaurant in the region.
LaRocca's certified-organic estate bottlings are the district signature, with Bertagna's four-generation farm wines and Grey Fox's foothill reds filling the case, and both reward the table more than the trophy shelf.
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