Wente Vineyards Tasting Lounge

Very nice place for wine testing in Livermore

Wide selection of estate grown wines. Friendly staff. Excellent Chardonnays and Cabernet Franc.

Enjoy our visit and the wines were great. Beautiful facility

Hugely disappointing!
My family and I went to Wente for wine tasting a week ago with plans to join and become members. My husband and I remember going a decade ago and had fond memories and having recently moved to the area, we figured it would be a place we would regularly visit.

The wines themselves are pretty run of middle wines - nothing was special or memorable.

The venue is pretentious but has so much it could offer.

The service was the worst part. Our server was Nancy who was not just downright rude but would try to push options and items on us that we did not ask for and upcharge everything. The service was not just very slow, but there was barely any communication from her regarding the wines. She would disappear for 20 minutes at a time. The pours were less than an ounce where we could not even get two sips to actually enjoy the wine. This was not the case at other tables as I saw other servers/clients were treated much better. Nancy kept trying to give us and charge us for a charcuterie board despite us saying multiple times we did not want it or ask for it.

She then charged extra for everyone, including my husband who shared his tasting as he was driving.

The kicker - she wanted to us to blindly give her our credit card without even showing us the charges. I had to ask for the breakdown and she scoffed at the request and only let us see it since I refused to blindly hand over my credit card.

Service was horrible and for this reason not only did I not join the membership but will not be coming back. Although they state they are family friendly, they are not! They charge $5 extra for each 'non-taster' and kid and don't advertise this at all.

Our family has been to hundreds wineries all over the world, but we have never been charged a non-tasting fee for underage or non-drinking guests. To charge $40 for a tasting plus $5 for each guest that was not drinking meant our family of 4 paid $55 for one wine tasting. This is not Napa, and neither is the wine or quality of service. Our server was curt and the pours were tiny. I can understand discouraging disruptive children and other unwanted, non profitable guests, but we have 2 well-behaved kids who like to write, color, read and talk to us while we share a wine tasting. I am not just another “Karen” who likes to tote around their bratty kids, but any place that calls themselves a “Family Vineyard” should not have a policy that intentionally discourages people from bringing their children or people who choose not to drink. I doubt they would have charged us an extra $10 if we brought dogs with us. We visited Wente about 10 years ago and remembered it to be a very different place back then. It’s sad to see that they have become so pretentious and greedy, which we’ve only come to expect from certain places in Napa, for example, but this is Livermore. Thankfully, there are still plenty of other wineries in the Valley that keep the spirit of Livermore alive and they will be getting our business instead of Wente for many years to come.

Very disappointing visit August 30

For several years as a top tier wine club member I have experienced consistently excellent service. Today the staff was swamped with holiday weekend traffic. We were seated by the fire pit and then forgotten. We were trying to pickup a case of of the August club allotment that had been placed on hi heat hold. Nobody seem to be able to find the order. The order was eventually recreated by hand.

It still is a great venue. the.wine is still superior but the operation layer an egg when stress tested .

Went with some friends a couple weeks ago, but had almost comically bad service. We waited 10 minutes for water and menus, and another 30 before we flagged someone down to ask to place our order. The person we flagged down was apologetic and gave us a 2nd splash of bubbles. Midway through their apology for our lack of service, another server came by and put his wine glass out for some of the wine she was pouring for us, and then he drank it, emptying the bottle, leaving half of us without wine, again! Such an awkward and unprofessional interruption. 10 minutes later, our actual “server” came by and made some odd comments. We just told her we were going to leave at that point. Really a shame because we really wanted to try the wine.

Lunch was quite appealing and Scott was an excellent sommelier.

Love this place. We have had several gatherings here with friends and they have been a lot of fun. Clean, elegant and absolute great nth wines!!!

A bit surprising to see so many low reviews. Been here twice, last time was years ago, but both times have been a great experience. Made a reservation online, was seated promptly. Service was excellent. Friendly and knowledgeable. We did tastings of both their family $40 and nth degree $50. 5 wines on each, mix of white and reds. We were able to try some additional wines they had open already as well. Wines were pretty good overall. Consistent with the last time I came. Only negative is the high prices but it's expected given they are one of the biggest name wineries in LV. Beautiful property. They have indoor and outdoor seating. Definitely worth visiting

Disappointed by the racist discriminating staff. We came here for lunch, the staff about 6-7 people were hanging at the sidelines, and not one came to seat us

First ever experience wine tasting in California. We came from our road trip from Wisconsin and have become a brand loyalist from this experience alone. Thank you Shelia. The experience was amazing and we called ahead just to see if we could stop bybecause the tastings were booked online. They were able to get us in for an amazing tasting experience that ended in us joining the wine club. I felt like I was treated with respect and joy. I didn't feel out of place or unwanted for my inexperience. It felt like a midwest welcome. We want to come back yearly now. Sheila was lovely and informative. I enjoyed her candor and experience.
This whole place was amazing and I cannot stop gushing over it. Everyone was so friendly. Thank you for such a memorable moment.

Sadly Wente has changed for the worse. Understaffed, The whole building is a wine tasting only, but only one cheese plate to offer. Is the same one that Murrietas Well serves. From the same Catering Co. And it looks worst than a cheese plate on an Airline!

The staff at the golf course is actually nice - not like here. Commercialized, cheap sweet wines, and some entitlement from the staff here = place not to visit again.

Very mid experience compared to other wineries. Our server seemed like she didn’t want to be there nor did she care to give much info on any of the wines or grounds even after inquiring more. She would leave us and not check on us, and would reappear suddenly only to pour our glasses quickly and run off again in hiding somewhere. In the end we had to find a server at the front to pay our bill, deciding against buying a charcuterie board and went to Rubino’s nearby which was a way better experience.