Bitcoin acceptance point: SacTrips Travel Tours

L ST 1017
95816 Sacramento

Web: http://www.sactrips.com/

phone: (916) 443-8741

Meet Sacramento’s King of Day Trips: Grady O’Bryant

In the Beginning, There was Wine

After years traveling overseas with the Air Force and working in Alaskan tourism, Grady and his wife decided to start their own tour company. Initially specializing in small tours with a nightlife focus, O’Bryant ventured into wine tours after receiving a call from two women visiting from Mississippi. They wanted to enjoy an afternoon of wine tasting in the Sierra Foothills.

When the Sacramento Convention and Visitors Bureau couldn’t recommend any tour companies servicing local wineries and every local limousine company they contacted steered them to Napa-based trips, “a light bulb went on.” And they knew they were on to something.

In 2007, O’Bryant founded Sacramento Wine & Nightlife Tours to showcase wineries surrounding Sacramento. The following year, the company got its big break when the American Wine Society held its annual convention. O’Bryant seized the opportunity, providing wine tours to five different wine regions for more than 250 wine experts over three days.

Today, the company continues to organize tours for locals, vacationers, and corporate clients, offering tours to more than nine wine regions, including Amador, Lodi, Napa, Apple Hill, Fair Play, Clarksburg, Sonoma, Calaveras County, Suisun and Russian River. A stickler for personal service, O’Bryant has visited every winery on each tour, meeting with owners, winemakers and tasting room personnel. This eye for excellence has led to one of the company’s signature experiences: custom winemaker’s dinners. Working closely with leading vintners and an exceptional chef, he has developed authentic and eclectic California winemaker’s dinners suitable for intimate parties to large groups (up to100 people).