1. Wine Country Chocolates
City: Glen Ellen, CA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (707) 996-1010
Address: 14301 Arnold Drive
Description: Mother and daughter chocolatiers Betty and Caroline Kelly serve up the best truffles around, thanks to a special ingredient: wine. Take your pick of formed and pressed truffles made with sparkling wine, Zinfandel, Port, or Cabernet Sauvignon. There’s also cappuccino-tiramisu, raspberry, apricot, fresh orange, and more. A selection of four truffles in a discreet takeaway box will have you swooning.
2. Raymond & Co. Cheesemongers
City: Glen Ellen, CA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (707) 938-9911
Address: 14301 Arnold Drive
Description: Just steps from the chocolate shop described above is the aromatic domain of John Raymond, a delightful character who can converse about cheese like some men talk about baseball or football. If you’re a cheese neophyte, John’s your man. It’s his passion, and cheesemongering is his profession. He doesn’t make the cheese; he selects artisan cheeses from around the world—many produced in Sonoma County—and presents the best in this small shop. As John puts it, “I believe that just as great fruit begets great wine, great cheese can only come from great milk.”
3. Jack London Bookstore
City: Glen Ellen, CA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (707) 996-2888
Address: 14300 Arnold Drive
Description: Used and new books are sold here, with a special concentration of books dealing with the life of author Jack London.