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Locals Tasting Room
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- Hours:
Mon-Sun. 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
12 reviews for Locals Tasting Room
This little tasting room was one of the high points of our wine tasting adventure. We were visiting another winery earlier that afternoon and they recommended Locals for our next stop. What a fantastic find!
We were welcomed immediately and were expertly guided through their mind-boggling large selection of wines. (I believe they had 71 available for tasting!) I loved the idea of a tasting room for small local wineries and it was everything I could have hoped for.
I really enjoyed being able to taste from a selection of wineries, rather than just being given a flight of 2 whites, 2 reds and a dessert wine. Here for example, you can taste 4 or 5 versions of a Cabernet Sauvignon and be able to directly compare each one.
Carolyn was not only fun and informative to talk with, but she helped us keep track of our likes and dislikes throughout our tasting and never once made us feel rushed, even though we were there well past closing time.
Their wine club is a excellent deal and gives a very generous discount on purchases. Overall, it was a very memorable experience and I highly recommend Locals.
Clever name, pretty cool location,and decent wines.....but....I was really put off by the service?!
I've been there twice, with two different people pouring for us, and both times the service sucked. I really felt like we were interrupting something, or just a big annoyance... I swear the host never smiled once...
Maybe it was circumstance, someone having a bad day or just coincidence. I was super surprised given the great reviews here on Yelp. I'm gonna try it one more time based on other Yelp'ers reviews.... but I'm a little skeptical.
We did go next door to Meekers and tasted some good wines, with a much more friendly host...
Comment from Carolyn L. of
Locals Tasting Room
10/12/2009
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I loved my experience at Locals! I was able to compare several wines of the same style and decide which I preferred. It's great to be able to compare different wines so that way you really know that you love what you are buying! i walked away with 5 or 6 bottle of wine I am excited to drink some day. They also have some really fun merch, like a solar powered disco ball. Had to get it!
Locals is located in Geyserville's tiny downtown strip. There are 3 other tasting rooms that you can walk to and an amazing pizza place (I'm told) right next door. I definitely recommend a visit to this gem in wine country!
This was maybe the most unique wine-tasting experience that I had while in the area. We first had a tasting of several cabernets, and when we told the host that the one we liked the most was out of our price range, she poured us tastes of some more modestly-priced reds. She was not at all condescending about it, and we ended up buying three different bottles of fairly pleasing wine that were in the $13-20 range. This isn't a flashy tasting room, and ordinarily I wouldn't give a place like this 5 stars, but the staff was very professional, friendly, and accommodating.
We were staying in Sonoma for a week in 2007 and just got lucky to have found a house to rent in Gyserville down the street from the tasting room. This is the only club I decided to join and am still a member. Their selections are always excellent and I look forward to see what they've chosen for me 4 times per year. We can't wait to have the opportunity to get back to Sonoma and visit in person again. Thanks for the great wines!
Loved it! Very relaxed atmosphere with a great selection of local and international wines to sample. It was particularly nice to be able to pick almost anything from their list without being told it'd be extra to try that particular wine. The people there were also extremely friendly and easy to talk to, none of that nose in the air attitude even from those who were bona fide wine connoisseurs. The fact that the wines that you taste here you can't get anywhere else is a big selling point to me. If I go all the way here to get some wine it'd better be something I can't get while I am grocery shopping. Also if I can get better for cheaper at Trader Joe's there's really no point hehe.
Came out with a bottle of Sangiovese and a bottle of a very nice (and surprisingly inexpensive) Malbec. Would definitely go back next time :).
In an ancient stretch of roadside America, this storefront behind a wild-west boardwalk takes you back to the days when wine tasting rooms were all about local farmers and small business owners getting you as drunk as possible for free in hopes you'd buy a bottle.
Inside and out, this is the Napa and Sonoma people came to love in 1982 before Louis Vuitton, Coca Cola and Schweppes moved in.
Make sure your driver isn't to thirsty before a tasting at locals. The kind folks here represent a delicious and delectable myriad of wines of all flavors and colors, from some 8 different vintners. Believe it son, this is the one-stop-shop, wine-o's heaven on Earth.
The proprietors are super friendly and most of the vintners are small production folk that do it as much for the love as for the cheddar. What you get is some (hit or miss) truly spectacular wines for the price. With such a huge selection (probably as many as 50, excuse the excessive parenthesis) of wines to choose from, one is damned not to find a few choice bottles in the crowd. And it is in Sonoma, Napa's better half.
Though I love Napa, and they do have, in my opinion, the best wines in the world, I just can't stand the bachelorette parties screaming and yelling about how buttery their chardonnays are. I also can't stand strolling up to a tasting room armed with a meager budget only to find that I can't even afford the tasting, nor is my limited wine vocabulary lofty enough to talk shop with the pretentious, butt-mouth behind the counter.
At Locals I told them that one of the wines tasted like a pool raft, and they considered it, made an effort to understand what I was getting at, and in the end, agreed. Your five stars with me Locals.
I was here for the barrel tasting so your might have a different experience. Wow...I liked this place. Roughly 30 wines from 7 or 8 different places, covering a range of styles... from Viogners to Sangioveses to Zins to 10 other types it seems from all over CA.. Sonoma to Lodi. Staff was very friendly and helpful. Many of the wines were excellent, I just wish it hadn't been my last stop of the day when I really couldn't take any more wine. I will definitely be returning here again to taste all of the wines I missed. Looks like there is a nice restaurant next door as well. Go here. Go here now.
We stumbled upon this place during a trip to Sonoma and I highly recommend it for anyone who is interested in tasting a variety of lesser known California wines. The husband-wife couple that run this place source wines from about 10 local wineries that they've selected.
The atmosphere is very down-to-earth and the owners are pretty generous with their pours. Instead of a fixed tasting list, they offer a selection of flights... great for anyone who has a preference for specific varietals. They also have a wine club that ships two wines quarterly - 8 bottles a year at a very reasonable price. Good deal for any wine club newbies (me!).
After touring 6 wineries in the Healdsburg-Geyserville area, we "stumbled "upon Locals. This is a small space where you can sample many of the local wineries offerings in one place. We made some great discoveries.
Totally as good as it gets. The model has been covered in detail in the other reviews, so I'll skip all that. There's always too many places to go when you're up in Sonoma and not enough time to get your tipsy self to and fro. However, Locals is all about efficiency. They pick some of the greatest local wineries that are too little (or aren't interested) in having their own tasting rooms and showcase them all for your convenience. Carolyn is as sweet as can be (and can give you plenty of local tips to fill the rest of your day with fantastic stops)
