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Grand View Winery
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Good for Kids:
- No
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
7 reviews for Grand View Winery
7 reviews in English
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Review from Shibs K.
1/22/2012
We stopped in with 10 minutes to closing, and the lady was kind enough to stop cleaning and offer us a quick wine sampling. For $1, we tasted a healthy sampling of 6 different wines and cider. As we were in the apple mood from the cider mill nextdoor, the hard cider won our hearts and we picked up a few bottles for ~$10 each. The cranberry wine was a winner and we are looking forward to ordering wines from the Grand View Winery soon!
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Review from J C.
Hyde Park, VT
10/24/2011
Good wine, bad attitude.
I stopped in there for a tasting over the weekend and was treated like vermin. The lady behind the counter pretty much ignored me for 10 minutes while I was looking around at the wines, until another party - who were apparently more "worthy" of her presence - came in for the tasting. And again, she served them while ignoring me, until one of them brought it up.
One extra star for the wine, but believe me when I tell you, it wasn't good enough to bring me back for another run-in with that snob at the counter. -
Review from Pamela C.
4/19/2011
Lame.
The fiance and I stopped in after getting some cider across the parking lot. Actually, I'm not sure we really intended to come in here but this "winery" or "tasting room" is connected to a gift shop. We came in for the gift shop to kill some time (we were waiting to meet someone). We wandered into the "winery" to take a looksey. Its more of a showroom/store than a "winery" or "tasting room."
The service was weird. We apparently interrupted the one staff person while she was doing some reading. She didn't seem totally thrilled to need to stop her book reading to actually man the shop. She was also strange about demanding the $2 wine tasting fee upfront before doing the tasting, even though we had a bottle of something we were planning on buying and had not yet paid for....I don't know...we didn't understand the rationale...she wouldn't give us our $2 of wine sampes while we're standing their holding a $14 of product?? Why not take all the money due? Weird. I think it was really just attitude for interrupting the lady's reading...
Pros: Right next to the cider mill & donuts, hard cider, cheap wine tasting, local artwork on display, local gifts/souvenirs for sale.
Cons: Parking is tight when the cider mill is hopping, service.
If you've got time to kill before or after visiting the cider mill, stop by. If not, this place not worth a special trip. After the weird/mildly rude service, I don't think I can whole-heartedly recommend the place as a "must" tourist spot. Sorry... -
Review from Pauly C.
Somerset, MA
9/30/2010
Not bad. I was a little upset they were sold out of Dandelion Wine, really the only one I was excited about trying the others were how can I say.....wines for people who want to drink wine but don't want to drink real wine. It's right across from the Cider Mill and it's a buck. Y not?
There is not actually a vineyard here but more a room in a gift store. Walk in the front and take a left. -
Review from Jason P.
2/20/2010 1 Check-in Here
Wine tasting in the middle of Vermont countryside. If you're here for some apres-ski events, Grand View Winery is a perfect place to check out. When you first walk into the establishment, the cashier is situated directly in front of you, where you can sample fudges, then peruse around the store for any souvenirs. But the real reason we all come here is for the wine tasting, which is located on the left-hand side of the store, in a separate room.
There is a small counter running along one side of the room where you can sample 6 of the ~15 wines for $1. Sadly, the 6 samples are pre-determined for that particular day, so you're stuck with whatever 6 bottles they have already uncorked. The lady behind the counter will give a short description of each wine (as you can also read on the wine menu) and pour a couple ounces in a porter wine glass. Wines (and apple cider wines) all vary with different fruits from apples, to grapes, melons, strawberries, raspberries, elderberries and more. Bottles of wine are priced around the $8-$17 range. I especially liked the pear wine ($14.50), which we bought a bottle, before making our way next door to some yummy apple cider donuts at Cold Hollow Cider Mill. -
Review from M T.
New York, NY
This location is NOT where the vineyards are. This is the wine tasting room/store. I was disappointed not seeing a vineyard as the touristy maps pointed this as the location of a winery. There is a vineyard but it is in the town of East Calais over the mountain as the sales lady described the directions of getting there.
Since we were here, we decided on a wine tasting. It was a dollar for a small taste of each wine The downside was that we can only choose from the wines that were opened already. I could not try their blueberry wine. I did try the Pear wine, Rasberry Apple wine, and Stawberry Wine. I was really surprised how delish these wines were. My favorite was the Pear wine. The mister and I bought three bottles. Overall, as first time visitors to Vermont, the mister and I were in awe to find wineries here. Hopefully, we will find ourselves in their vineyards.
This tasting room is next door to the popular cold hollow cider mill. Just go right into the Apple Core store and make a left into the tasting room. -
Review from Kiki B.
Cambridge, MA
3/29/2008
they're right next to cold hollow cider mill. while one doesn't really think of wine when one thinks of vermont, the hard cider was pretty tempting.
