Jane Turner

Review of Grgich Hills Estate Winery

This was a disappointing visit.

This was a disappointing visit.
We had been recommended to go to Grigich Hills by a couple of other wineries in the area because I love Petit Verdot and Grgich was supposed to have one! So unfortunately they were sold out, which happens, you know, whatever, but my mom and I stayed to do a tasting and it went pretty poorly, I'm not sure why.
The tasting associate kind of ignored us completely while we were there, like, they would pour us a wine and then walk away and leave us to our crackers, olive oil, and surprisingly not-good wine without saying a word.
On a personal note, I used to work behind the bar as a wine tasting associate and even when we were busy I tried really hard to at least look all if my customers in the eye, to try to make them laugh... like, it's hard to come down on someone in the service industry because we work so hard but I was a little frustrated, especially watching my mom try to find out more information and being completely ignored. It was rough.
Finally, the wine was not as good! As some others have been! What the heck was going on with that "award winning" Chardonnay?? It was bad! Then the tasting associate skipped over a couple of wines and poured others instead saying, "oh this one is better than the one that's on the list,"... like if the one that's on the list is really that much worse than the one we're being served, why serve it at all? I couldn't make heads or tails of it, especially because the ones that were supposed to be better were pretty bad.
Listen, I know wine comes down to taste. I know it's in the palette and it's personal and all that, but this area is so jam-packed full of good wines that I cannot recommend going to Grgich. Go somewhere else!