Did the pioneer tasting at Robert Mondavi yesterday, and it was well worth every penny. Fabulous wines, and the history behind the winery as well as the region was so fascinating to learn about alongside the wines. The staff is incredible and the renovated space is simply gorgeous. You also have the most incredible views while tasting. I highly recommend.

The new Robert Mondavi tasting room looks absolutely gorgeous built on sustainability, drought, resistant foliage, removing the concert lawn and bringing it back to nature gives it more serene sophisticated ambience. Now the tasting room is absolutely gorgeous. It’s big expensive multiple options from indoor to outdoor. It’s a great use of space. There used to be a tasting room option in the barrel room which is now I believe only for special events. The service was great from checking in with the host to getting seated, going through the rotations of the wines and having them explained to us with the history of the Mondavi wines, overall a great presentation. They have excellent white wines, but the real Takeaway is the To Kalone Vineyard wines. The 2023 were showing well but they’re still young Titanic but good structure overall I particularly liked the 2018 reserve brands which was amazing wines very sophisticated structure well balanced, and expensive. I will definitely bring the wife back here instead of Billy to do the Food&Wine pairing. 🙂 Thanks Billy for hanging out. It is our unofficial Yelp elite event (UYE). They currently do not have breadsticks but at some point, they may offer small bites Tapara along with your food. They were gracious enough to prepare something for us for today, but that wasn’t part of the tasting so thank you for that Mondavi team. I do like the Membership options, especially for the two bottles every quarter customizable great member offering to come back for a complementary tasting so I’ll definitely be looking at that becoming a member.