What Are the Best Hidden – and Affordable – Wine Regions Around Sacramento? See These 6 Spots

Local baseball great Dusty Baker, the manager for the Houston Astros – and former manager of the San Francisco Giants – who started his baseball career at Del Campo High School, sits with winemaker Chil Brenneman inside of the tasting room at the Baker Wine Family in West Sacramento, California, on Friday, Dec. 10, 2021. Paul Kitagaki Jr./The Sacramento Bee/TNS

By Benjy Egel From The Sacramento Bee

Sacramento— California is still America’s wine capital, but day trips to Napa and Sonoma counties aren’t what they once were.