Country Chic independent inns

Set along St. Helena Highway amid Napa Valley vineyards, this country-chic bed & breakfast sits on a working organic farm — the kind of place where the rows outside your window are actually part of the property. Rooms are bright and simply done, with free Wi-Fi throughout. It's a small operation, with fewer than 60 guest reviews to its name, and reads more farmstead than hotel.

A small bed-and-breakfast on Sonoma's Broadway, the Bancroft Inn keeps things elegant but unfussy — rooms done in a country-chic register that suits the valley outside. Out back, a garden makes room for open-air dining, the kind of setting that turns a morning coffee into a long one. With fewer than thirty reviews on the books, it remains a quiet find rather than a well-trodden one.