You'll savor that glass of wine even more after you have learned more about how and where wine grapes are grown. Here's a sampling of tours:

• Five-day Vineyard Walking Tours of California's Sonoma County are offered by Zephyr Wine Adventures. Anyone with an interest in learning about wine or just being in wine country will have fun. Visitors can choose from casual walks to lengthy ones in the region's most scenic and famous vineyards. Tours include all meals (except one lunch), accommodations, daily wine tastings and guided walks. The tours are offered Aug. 24-28 and Oct. 26-30. Per-person cost, based on double occupancy, is $1,900. www.sonomavineyardwalks.com .

The Spencer Hotel (ENLARGE)

The Spencer Hotel in Chautauqua, N.Y., offers a $435 package that includes one night in a double room and information on wineries on the Chautauqua-Lake Erie Wine Trail.

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• The beautifully restored, century-old Spencer Hotel in Chautauqua, N.Y., is ideally located for exploring the wineries of the Chautauqua-Lake Erie Wine Trail. The romantic hotel offers a winery trail package for a night, from $435 double, that includes accommodations in a luxurious room, breakfast, a picnic lunch and a detailed schedule of 15 wineries to visit. The Wine Trail running along Lake Erie stretches for 40 miles from Silver Creek, N.Y., to northeast Pennsylvania. www.thespencer.com ,

www.chautauquawinetrail.org

• Globus Journeys offers Flavors of Burgundy & Provence, a 12-day escorted visit through France's famous wine and gastronomic regions. Trips originate in Nice before heading to Arles in Provence, where participants board an elegant ship. Stops include Avignon, Lyon (a gastronomic capital), the twin cities of Tournon (one of France's oldest medieval cities) and Tain l'Hermitage and Mâcon. The trip also includes guided orientation in Paris before a two-night stay (this tour also is offered in reverse). Several dates are offered from mid-April through mid-December, with the least expensive, land-only tours priced at $2,059 per person, based on double occupancy. www.globusjourneys.com

• Tour Italy's Tuscany region guided by a local sommelier-in-training of fine Italian wines and a master chef of regional foods. Groups of four to 12 guests go on daily excursions to family-run cellars in the southern Tuscany countryside. Towns visited on a sample five-night/six-day tour (12 wine tastings each day) include Montepulciano, Morellino di Scansano, Chianti and the classic Tuscan fortress town of Montalcino. Accommodations are at the country estate of Villa Gaia, near the small village of Seggiano in the province of Grosseto. Also included are transfers from Rome (tour ends in Grosseto). Five-night tours are $3,025 per person, based on double occupancy. Three-, four- and seven-night packages are also offered. www.tuscanway.com