V. Sattui Winery Review

I only wish so many people hadn't found out how great this place is! Beautiful grounds for a picnic and nice deli to go with your wines. We bring Yahtzee and dominoes and make a day of it. Relaxing and great wines which can only be purchased direct from the winery. We belong to the Wine Club and love it!!

Edit: Sadly, after enjoying V Sattui for 40 years, it's not what it used to be. No longer 5 Stars. Cancelled our membership after our last visit, even that took 3 emails AND they billed me a full month after my first request to cancel.

Pre-ordered and paid for a limited release bottle. When we picked up our order they had sold out, even though I had prepaid for it. They sold MY wine. Went to do our free wine tasting and were given one glass with instructions to share it! While discussing the missing bottle of wine, a dog at the tasting bar started to bark, and bark and bark. Not a word from management. Keep your untrained animals at home! We will give it one more shot, as the grounds are lovely and we enjoy the wine. What was lacking was pleasant customer service.

Beautiful architecture and scenery, coupled with a delicious selection of wines, makes V. Sattui a gorgeous and relaxing experience in wine country. Taste their wines indoors or outdoors, and buy any selection of their cheeses and meats to pair with your favorite bottle. Outside is also a BBQ area where they sell gourmet meals that are made right in front of you. Have a picnic. Enjoy your meals and your wines with good company on the grass.

We had a really good wine tour and wine tasting visit to this place. In fact our tour guide was one of the family members and explained the process of wine making the and the difference between various wines really well

Really cool to see the very popular winery. Cheap tastings give you a lot of variety, but with service can be slightly overwhelmed at times with the volume of people they're dealing with. Overall very enjoyable to see one of the staples, but if you want a more relaxed environment you may be better trying somewhere else. To be fair we did not try the private tours, however.

Wonder place. Love the atmosphere! Jordathan is amazing!!!

I loved it. Great collection of wines, friendly staffs, and nice atmosphere. BBQ outside was a little bonus.

Very very happy at reopening of winery. They are strictly following CDC guidelines. One must wear mask and keep social distancing when possible. Tables are available with sign up. Food is also available. Kinda crowded but still keeping the flow well. Will recommend to all. Thank you.

By far some of the most amazing wine in the Napa Valley. Paired with amazing views, private tastings, great deli with everything you could need. Inside the deli they also have an amazing cheese selection , can't go wrong with this winery

A very nice cellar to stop for a drink. Very busy, but has plenty of space, tables and grass, and a great deli shop, with a little bit of everything, though not cheap.

V. Sattui winery was the highlight of our Napa valley tour. Our Sommelier was the great-great granddaughter of the original founder and she was great. We loved the atmosphere and the added deli section, two hundred cheeses! The wine was amazing and their wine club options were the best of all the wineries we visited.

We had a private barrel taste, lunch and gold room tasting. What a wonderful day spent with friends and a wonderful staff was so helpful and friendly. What a great day! Our tour guide was Bob, our tasting host was Jay. Will definitely share with friends and plan on a return visit. Looking forward to our barrel tasting "futures" to being delivered and enjoyed.

The grounds were beautiful, this is a great place to get some pictures! Suzanne provided great recommendations for which wines to taste. We really loved their entanglement and port wine!

As a European I always have a bit of trouble with paid tastings ... it's not at all applicable on the old continent. Apart from this superb place, quality wines often awarded in the competitions. No reservation needed.

Had an amazing picnic here! V Satui has a nice market where you can buy your products and a bottle of wine. The space outside is picnic friendly and you can just enjoy the view and the space having your food and wine.

This was my first time to V. Sattui! We had an opportunity to check out their barrel room, crush pad, and bottling line. The description of each room was very brief but that was okay since we knew there were six lovely wines waiting for us at the end of the tour. V. Sattui does not distribute outside and so the only place you can try their wines is at this location! Their rouge wine was the most beautiful color red and the perfect amount of sweetness. We tried a variety of other whites, reds, and a port. The woman pouring our wines was very knowledgeable and gave us some great tips when shopping for wine at the grocery store. V. Sattui even has a BBQ truck on site that seemed quite popular although we had brought our own picnic and didn't get to try it. Overall, great place to relax and "wine" down!

This was our third visit to the Napa/Sonoma area, but our first to V. Sattui. We had a very enjoyable visit and will definitely stop here on our next visit to Napa. We had a great experience with the terrace tasting and found some excellent wines. V. Sattui has an enormous selection of wine, almost overwhelming, but great wines. I particularly enjoyed the Entanglement, Syrah, and Zinfandel. This is a very popular winery for good reason. I highly recommend a visit to V. Sattui.

One of our favorites. Great picnic area for families or big groups. Wonderful deli and winery.

We went somewhere else and it was rather snooty and very expensive, 4 of us over 100 dollars. We came here and purchased a delicious bottle of wine, a baguette, 2 cheeses, bruschetta and some paper plates and spent less than 60. Everything was phenomenal. We would highly recommend it.

My favorite winery. Excellent wine, food and customer service.

Perfect place. Every year I buy port and dine on great sandwiches.

First time doing wine tasting and came to a perfect spot. Nice place, very beautiful. There's tables to sit down and eat your food and drink wine that you've bought, no outside food or drinks are allowed. Dogs are allowed if you happen to have them with you. There's also a lounge area away from the other seating area. Benches are also available to sit and eat. Overall great experience and definitely recommend.

A large busy winery with beautiful grounds and an amazing selection of cheese and deli sandwiches! If you're driving by - make sure to stop in for a snack. Best place to eat between tastings!

This place is amazing. Great selection of wines, and very attentive staff. The winery also has its own shop with an amazing selection of French cheese and charcuterie.
Please enjoy this place with the family members, love ones and friends - you won t forget.

Had another great visit at V. Sattui winery. I am a local Napan and love to bring visitors to the Valley to Sattui as their first stop. Sattui is set up for visitors that are new to wine and Wine Country. Some like to disparage Sattui as too touristy or too commercialized but I strongly disagree. Sattui makes fabulous wine and has price points accessible to most as well as a staff that is trained to lead the uninitiated through many different wines, from beginner to the high end complex wines of far more "exclusive" wineries. Wine should be accessible to everyone. Leave the snootyness behind and just come have a great afternoon and take home some world class wine, whatever that means to you.

Nice picnic place to relax and have some wine and cheese. It can get very crowded and is a bit pricey, but definitely worth visiting

Good wine tasting room, enjoyed it. The atmosphere is Delicate and elegant

I have visited here several times, specially when I take guests on a Wine tasting trip. They have good wines on the Wine tasting menu. There is a small market, where you can buy cheese, dips, bread etc. There are several picnic tables, where you can sit and enjoy the wine and appetizers. Great place to visit on your Wine tasting trip.

Had a great deli and cheese selection! We enjoyed a nice picnic on the grounds. Very delicious for the value.

I love this place. Wine tasting and food all in one place! This place has benches along with shade for the perfect picnic. They also have a BBQ menu on the daily. This place is very popular on the weekend So bring picnic blankets to sit down on.

My first dine on-site experience since Civid-19 pandemic decended on us. It was great! Menu was, if course somewhat limited but atmosphere was great! We dined outside at the picnic tables ( as I usually do) had a bottle of pinot noir. The weather was perfect.It was so good to be out again. It was my birthday and I was happy. We wore face covering inside and were seated out on grass. There was more than adequate distancing on a Monday afternoon. I'M not ready for tasting tour, not yet

Great stop for lunch. Full deli and sandwich shop. Wine tasting and sales by the bottle. If it rains there are spots to wait it out in the cellar.

This was our favorite winery. We went back the next day. They have wine tastings & food were terrific. The service was great. They had shaded picnic type areas to go outside and eat and drink.

I have booked in Advance the daily Tour for $30/per adult( this is your basic wine 101 class). We took the first tour in a Saturday morning with a 90+ degree weather. It wasn't pack with people yet at 11:06 am when we arrived, no crowds yet in the picnic grounds but can see them preparing already for the BBQ.Parking was easy at this time of the day. The drive from San Jose to Napa valley took us 2 hours ( left at 9 am), hit some traffic at Oakland but the biggest traffic was when we entered the main road headed to St. Helena were most of the wineries were located, it was bumper to bumper. If you could skip Napa Valley in a weekend,skip it and go on a weekday you would like it more with less crowds. We were like 6-7 min late for the tour.I called 3x to the number enlisted at the reservation email to notify we were late due to traffic, but no one was picking up the phone instead a VM was the only option. Left 2 VM. I got No return call but at 11 am,our tour guide called and asked our whereabouts with no idea that I tried calling. Anyway,he handled it very well and very cordial.We made it almost on time because the group didn't yet start.There were 3 couples in our group( there was a large group who came late and missed the tour to the vineyard).I had some winery tours in the past but not in Napa Valley. The tour would talk about the wineries production of wine,the history of the winery, a quick education regarding wines and the Napa region. We walked through the other tasting rooms towards the back of the winery where the vineyards are. The walking tour does not allow you to walk far and will just show how the grapes are formed etc.Take a lot of pictures since you won't be allowed back outside once the tour is over. The tour guide didn't mentioned that nor offered a few minutes if the group wants to take a couple of pictures since the area was one of the picturesque area in the winery. The best area to have your wine tasting, in my opinion, is Tasting in the Terrace ( 1st came 1st serve basis) since you can sit down , relax and have the actual view of the vineyard and the the fountain and can take pictures /sip wine of an actual "winery"feel.The best part of the tour is the complimentary tasting in the cellar. We had 3 wines to taste in the actual menu and then had +2 other complimentary wine because one in the group is celebrating his birthday and 1 complimentary from the winery total of 5. It was great, not feel rushed, the tour guide was attentive to questions and needs this time.Bring your own Bottled water during the tasting, they don't give you one. By the time the tour was over, crowds have poured in and bathroom lines were long,and parking was crazy. I got a little tipsy and so stayed in the winery and ate lunch. Good thing a lot of seating areas aside from the picnic area to rest. Staff are very friendly and helpful. You won't be able to visit more than 2 wineries ( wineries open at 9 am,but who wants to go at 9 am, I started at 11 am) and have a good time ,plan to visit your top 2 and call it a day. It's fun but tiring in a very hot day and in crowds of tourists like yourself. SUMMARY: Visit 1-2 wineries with a tour or a sit down tour, enjoy the winery and call it a day, don't drive around. For the V.Sattui winery,take the Terrace Tasting or the discover tour

Excellent place to have a picnic. The food is OK and a bit pricey, but overall great experience.

Very good wine tasting experience. Great that you can go and share a few tasting glasses quickly at the bar rather than having a longer and more formal tasting experience at other wineries. The wines we tried were all excellent.

Preston and Dominic are the best!!!! Everytime my friends and I go we are treated with the upmost respect with excellent customer service. My favorite is the Angelica followed by Madeira and would have to say the Gamay Rouge it's also a contender in my book. I'm a part of the Dolce club and I love the selections that are sent

A wonderful place !!! Not just wine tasting! Cheeses ... types of oils to accompany with tostas and others !!! The great deal! It's worth the trip !!! (if I have the opportunity to return, I'm sure I'll repeat it !!!).

its good to be back! This time its saturday.. a lot of people. family picnics. private party. tourists. all here including me. #LocalGuidesSox #roadtripus #vsattuiwinery

This winery has gorgeous landscaping and tons of food. The wine tasting was less impressive and informative than other wineries but we still enjoyed it.

Wonderful sandwiches. Delicious kale salad. Stay away from the gnocchi and....no water fountains on the premises to fill your own water bottle.

Decently large grounds but lots of people, so you will see your neighbor's picnic spread. The grounds are nice, with a large and delicious selection of cheese for free tasting and purchase. Service at the wine-tasting bar was a little bit cranky, but chat them up and they'll cheer up for you. He even offered the conoiseur in our group a delicious Cab off the menu. Pop in near the end of the day to be offered free tastings.

Updated back to 5 stars. Went by today, excellent covid protocols in place. Great visit and safe!

First time at the winery. Host was very attentive and helpful. Not a huge fan of red wines, so we got a dessert wine for our last tasting instead. Very nice location and nice selection of wines

Friendly staff. Great wine tastings and food options.

Came here for a wine tasting during what I think is the third surge of COVID-19? They were doing an excellent job of complying with all restrictions. Socially distanced tables and everyone wearing masks. Loved our wines! Make sure to call for a reservation if you want to do a tasting.

We hit this place on a very busy day when they were doing an outdoor cook out with pizza and smoked meats and such. Although the lines were long and food seemed pricey it was a very nice change from a standard restaurant and as an east coaster it's nice to be outside in November! Great people watching too!

V. Sattui is our go-to every time we hit Napa. Everything about this place is beautiful and appealing. The tasting room is also nice and open as well as spacious (although it gets very crowded because of the popularity of this winery).
I'm always shocked when someone tells me that they frequent Napa but have never been here. I tell them "It's a must!". The selection of wine is amazing, the variety and uniqueness of the wines separate V. Sattui from the rest.
My warning to others is that if you plan on picnicking here, you better come early! Everyone is a claim jumper early in the day and by noon you're lucky if you find good real estate.

Fantastic wines and atmosphere. We went on a Saturday for the BBQ and tasting. Can't miss it you're looking for wineries to visit in Napa!

This should be your first stop if you've never been to Napa, or if it's been a while. The is a great selection of whites and reds, so everyone in your party will find something to like. You don't need a reservation, and they have the space to accommodate larger groups. Their staff is friendly, and willing to answer questions and guide you through a tasting, if you don't know much about what you want/like. They will ship almost anywhere, which is an added advantage. Another thing this winery has going for it, is picnic tables and a large deli/store that sells all kinds of cheeses, spreads, breads, crackers, and even sandwiches. The great thing is you can taste lots of things before you buy them. They also have a pretty extensive gift shop, so if you're interested in gifts, they likely have it.

You can enjoy the old building and the wine cellar.

Been going here for about 6+ years. Excellent food, wine, and service every time.

This and their sister winery Castillo de Amorosa had my favorite wines!!! Very smooth, fruity, and not dry like I prefer them. Very gorgeous grounds to take pictures and enjoy a meal. Came back a second time on my trip. Definitely recommend. I could bring my kid was another plus.

The area is nice to bring kids and drink some wine and eat their cheese, the wines are ok but the place makes it a big win to come and enjoy a fabulous time. it is worth the stop if you are near the area.

Nice and relaxing. A lot of gras areas to sit down and do a picnic. Great for family.

Tourist trap, but what a great place to have a picnic. Wine and fresh cheese, count me in.

Great wines and wonderful approach to tastings. You get to choose which to try of their 20+ wines. It's smart too... I walked away buying a wonderful red I might never have seen on a conventional tasting menu.

Great outdoor space, the market place is nice and the food is amazing

AWESOME EXPERIENCE! We were visiting California and Oregon coast from Georgia. We just happened on V.Sattui while spending a day visiting wineries and by far they had the best wines. We had already eaten or would have loved to try the outside restaurant. Wonderful atmosphere and experience. A MUST visit winery!

Server ignored us in favour of two Italian girls next to us, giving them full glasses for free and the couple next to us buying several cases. Twice forgot to serve me, but served my girlfriend. Only visit if you a woman or buying a lot of wine.

Great service and excellent space to do wine tasting. Don't be confused by the picnic grounds - it's only available for use with food purchased from them.

Excellent wine for a reasonable price. My only complaint is you have to pay for the tasting, but this is Napa valley so whatever. The food trucks were great, the vibes were nice, overall a great place to hang with friends and drink some wine.

Excellent winery, the Mt. Veeder and Preston Cabs are some of the best we've had (2012/2013). The grounds are beautiful, and the staff in the tasting rooms are knowledgeable and fun. Great way to spend the day in Napa!

Not only wine, but also food such as BBQ
It is nice to go around various wineries, but it is also pleasant to drink with wine and knobs purchased in the courtyard here

Very friendly and knowledgeable staff. Definitely recommend to people to try.

When it comes to wineries in the area, almost none offer food besides cheese and charcuterie. However this place has a big delicatessen deli marketplace with delicious varieties of food and shady picnic tables outside to enjoy those in a nice atmosphere. You cannot taste the wine outside with your food, so I suggest that you do the tasting, buy a bottle and consume with your food outside

Amazing time with Deamitris & Bob...both always have a smile. Even though you can't see them with the mask on.

Wonderful place. We had the tasting with John and he was very entertaining.

Wonderful winery. It can be super crowded on the weekends and throw you off, but the staff's attitude and quality of wine would beat that. The property is beautiful and well maintained. Would repeat it, just for that Madeira :)

Good place for food and cheese. I had the ravioli and it was pretty good. However, I felt like a number rather than a person for the wine tasting. Definitely hurried and not personal, unimpressed. Also, extremely busy for a Wednesday afternoon. I'd hate to see what it's like on the weekends.

V. Sattui is a beautiful place set in the Napa Valley. All the members are very helpful with great attitudes and a warm welcome. Wine tasting is an excellent experience for new wine tasters with full explanations of the selected wines for tasting as well as very open to seasoned wine tasters alike. Very nicely done V. Sattui please continue the excellent commentment to fine wine making.

We ended up here only because my coworker (who was not on the trip) had specifically wanted to buy a couple of bottles of the Gamay Rouge. Turns out that on clear days, they fire up the grill and sell lunches! We had a steak sandwich and wood fire pizza at the picnic tables. This is one of the few places where you can taste wine and eat a meal on the grounds. I would recommend just for this reason.

We moved in to try some wines. Since we were already set on buying the Gamay Rouge, but didn't know what it tasted like, one of the workers allowed us to taste some wines free of charge to see whether we would like to buy the Gamay Rouge for ourselves also. Overall a pleasant experience.

Very cozy place for picnic where you can taste best wines and cheeses of the world