Santa Clara County

Santa Clara County holds wine country on both flanks — the Santa Cruz Mountains west of Saratoga, the Diablo range east of Morgan Hill. Granite and sandstone soils, 1,500-to-2,500-foot elevation, cabernet and pinot noir where the fog reaches. Tasting rooms pour from mountain barns along Skyline and Summit roads, from country estates along Uvas. Uvas Canyon County Park opens a leashed waterfall trail south of Morgan Hill; Sanborn County Park runs redwood-shaded forest loops. Pair a Santa Cruz Mountains cabernet with an afternoon above the fog. The county’s wine country is older than the valley’s silicon, and the dogs know the roads.