Fantastic wine and staff
Benjamin, Palo Alto
I visited this winery for the first time this past weekend. It was a gem in my book. My wife and I go wine tasting frequently with our friends and are always looking for something new and different. We discovered Rios-Lovell as we were driving by and it was the second winery we visited that day. When we entered the tasting room we were immediately greeted by the owner, the winemaker and two other employees. They had a very impressive list of wines and ports. The tasting was $5 each and you get to taste 8 wines, which is a lot from our experience. We fell in love with their 04 Cab especially. It has an International Gold medal and you can definitely tell. In fact, many of their wines have some very prestigious medal yet they are very humble about it. This s not one of those snobby winery's, which we really appreciated. We tasted with the owner himself and he went into detail about each wine and told us all about the wine making process. I didn't try the ports, but my wife loves them and commented that theirs were the best in the area so far. There are three other wineries in Livermore that we love and visit regularly and this one gave them a run for their money. We will definitely be going back next time we are in Livermore.