"St. Helena has a legitimate claim on the title of America’s culinary capital. It’s home of the West Coast branch of the Culinary Institute of America, and also home to one of the California wine country’s most rarefied — and wine-obsessed — hotels. Meadowood Napa Valley has been a local institution for half a century, but far from showing its age, today it remains an absolutely first-rate luxury resort." - Mark Fedeli