New in Accolades for Sonoma County – Winter 2024

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  Travel + Leisure Magazine named Sonoma County as one of the 50 Best Places to Travel in 2024.
• Sonoma's Animo Restaurant was named among the best in the United States in Open Table's recently released “Top 100 restaurants in America for 2023.”
• The Robb Report, an ultra-luxury lifestyle magazine, includes Kyle and Katina Connaughton of Healdsburg's Single Thread Restaurant & Farm on their “Most Powerful People in American Fine Dining” ranking. In the list of “the restaurant industry's most influential figures, as chosen by their peers,” the couple reached No. 12 in the ranking.
• Travel Lemming released its list of 50 best places to travel in 2024, with a focus on slow travel. Slow travel, for the uninitiated, is a more sustainable way to travel focused on local communities and less mass produced and high-volume travel experiences. Coastside, Sonoma County's very own Jenner made the top 50 list.
• The San Francisco-based Good Food Foundation sifts through thousands of entries nationwide to identify small and emerging producers each year. A Good Food Award serves as a valuable platform for these small, sustainable, and often family-owned businesses, granting them exposure to a wider audience and capturing the attention of food enthusiasts across the nation. Among the noteworthy 2024 Sonoma County finalists are Canteen Meats (Petaluma), offering a dry-cured and cold-smoked beef round known as Beef Cecina, sourced from Silver Sky Ranch and Beffa Springs in Petaluma. Gold Ridge Organic Farms (Sebastopol) for their Mandarin-Kumquat Shrub, featuring organic mandarin-kumquat and citrus from the Gold Ridge estate, combined with sugar, small-batch barrel-aged apple cider vinegar, and bay leaves. Spirit Works Distillery (Sebastopol) and their Barrel Gin, a product aged for several months in new American White Oak barrels, resulting in a distinctive and complex balance between botanicals and oak. Tobias Glen Vineyard, part of California Wineries & Vineyards (Sonoma), is recognized for their Russian River Bee Raw Honey, a complex raw honey with floral notes from blooming trees and perennials in spring, along with hints of apple, pear, and wild berries later in the year.

* Sonoma County Tourism https://www.sonomacounty.com/

* Birgitt Vaughan at publicrelations@sonomacounty.com