Your Guide: You want nice place, nice people? Try Grass Valley

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Your Guide: You want nice place, nice people? Try Grass Valley: "Everyone is so nice in Grass Valley. Not goober-sweet, insulin-shock nice. Just friendly and open and, you know, nice.

Visitors mingle and taste recently at the Sierra Starr Winery's room in downtown Grass Valley.

Linda Clough, co-owner of Lucchesi Vineyards with husband Mario, reacts to a toast from a happy patron in the Lucchesi tasting room at Mill and Neal streets.

A bottle- and glass-filled view out a window of the room onto Mill Street.

Above, Linda Clough, co-owner of Lucchesi Vineyards with husband Mario, reacts to a toast from a happy patron in the Lucchesi tasting room at Mill and Neal streets. Left, flags fly from the Holbrooke Hotel on Main Street – yet another happy place in Grass Valley.
Chewy naps at the Sierra Starr Winery – how's that for casual? The winery has a second friendly canine, Bruno.

Chewy naps at the Sierra Starr Winery – how's that for casual? The winery has a second friendly canine, Bruno.

Chuck Baker straightens the stacks at Booktown Books, a 12-owner co-op for used books. Booktown is one of 19 independent new- and used-book stores in the Grass Valley-Nevada City area.

Ken Sherrod pours in the tasting room at the Grass Valley Wine Co.

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