Will be in Temecula next weekend for my friend’s 50th (he has two little ones so can’t make it to a better wine region since he lives on Carlsbad). My wife and I don’t trek here because we don’t enjoy Temecula wines though wondering if there’s any decent wineries without the party bus crowd worth visiting. Thanks in advance.
I haven’t been down there since prior to the pandemic. But yes there are decent ones. What is it you don’t like about them? Maybe that can help us answer for you
@klezman@losthighwayz Interesting. Took my daughter and her husband down there in probably 2018. We didn’t do the tour type stuff we had a map and picked a list of them. I remember one that we really didn’t like but went there because it had this bread that people raved over it wasn’t so good.
There was actually a casements gathering in the the next year. https://casemates.com/forum/topics/socal-temecula-gathering
I honestly don’t remember anymore where we went. I remember a place with motorcycles that my son-in-law really liked and this elegant place with a restaurant where the guy serving the tasting flight said how Monday was the best day to go (it was a Monday). I also remember a very small place that was the last place we went, where my daughter actually bought a bottle of white wine (she normally drinks read) because the lime notes were so forward and she loves lime (very fruity wines there)
We did the research thing with both reviews and descriptions and picked our choices that we. we were happy.
I was just out there last weekend for a wedding at Avensole. Didn’t look very ‘party bus’ heavy, but the wines weren’t anything i broadly enjoyed. One was good, one was terrible, the rest somewhere in the middle.
That said, when i do get back out there, there are a few Spanish-variety focused that i would want to check out, Masia de la Vinya and Raul Ramirez Bodegas y Vinedos.
Will be in Temecula next weekend for my friend’s 50th (he has two little ones so can’t make it to a better wine region since he lives on Carlsbad). My wife and I don’t trek here because we don’t enjoy Temecula wines though wondering if there’s any decent wineries without the party bus crowd worth visiting. Thanks in advance.
@losthighwayz
I’ve heard a few good things about Cordiano Winery
Not Temecula, but Escondido, no personal experience.
I haven’t been down there since prior to the pandemic. But yes there are decent ones. What is it you don’t like about them? Maybe that can help us answer for you
@Cerridwyn over extracted high alcohol fruit bombs! As for the wineries, they remind me of a frat party lol
@Cerridwyn @losthighwayz yeah that’s largely my experience too
@klezman @losthighwayz Interesting. Took my daughter and her husband down there in probably 2018. We didn’t do the tour type stuff we had a map and picked a list of them. I remember one that we really didn’t like but went there because it had this bread that people raved over it wasn’t so good.
There was actually a casements gathering in the the next year. https://casemates.com/forum/topics/socal-temecula-gathering
I honestly don’t remember anymore where we went. I remember a place with motorcycles that my son-in-law really liked and this elegant place with a restaurant where the guy serving the tasting flight said how Monday was the best day to go (it was a Monday). I also remember a very small place that was the last place we went, where my daughter actually bought a bottle of white wine (she normally drinks read) because the lime notes were so forward and she loves lime (very fruity wines there)
We did the research thing with both reviews and descriptions and picked our choices that we. we were happy.
I was just out there last weekend for a wedding at Avensole. Didn’t look very ‘party bus’ heavy, but the wines weren’t anything i broadly enjoyed. One was good, one was terrible, the rest somewhere in the middle.
That said, when i do get back out there, there are a few Spanish-variety focused that i would want to check out, Masia de la Vinya and Raul Ramirez Bodegas y Vinedos.