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5pm), both crafting
outstanding zinfandels.
Backtrack and continue
straight across
Plymouth Shenandoah
Rd, bending south
towards hilltop estate
Wilderotter Vineyard
(www.wilderottervineyard.
com; 19890 Shenandoah
School Rd; h10:30am-5pm
Wed-Mon), which pours
dry, minerally whites and
smoothly balanced reds.

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The Drive » Follow
Shenandoah School Rd
another mile west until it ends.
Turn left back onto Plymouth
Shenandoah Rd for 1.5 miles,
then turn right onto Hwy 49
northbound. Less then 20 miles
later, after up-and-down roller-
coaster stretches, you’ll arrive
in downtown Placerville, south
of Hwy 50.

77 Placerville
Things get livelier in ‘Old
Hangtown,’ a nickname
Placerville earned for the
vigilante-justice hangings
that happened here in


  1. Most buildings
    along Placerville’s Main St
    date from the 1850s. Poke
    around antiques shops
    and Placerville Hardware
    (441 Main St; h8am-6pm Mon-
    Sat, 9am-5pm Sun), the oldest
    continuously operating
    hardware store west of
    the Mississippi River.
    Downtown dive bars open
    in the early morning, get
    an annual cleaning at
    Christmas and are great
    for knocking elbows
    with odd birds. Marked
    by a vintage neon sign


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