St Supery Winery
Rutherford, CA 94573 (707) 963-4507
- Price Range: $$$
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- Parking: Private Lot
- Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
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Sonoma, CA
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35 Reviews for St Supery Winery
I highly recommend you stop at St. Supry Winery for a tasting when you're up in Rutherford/Napa. My favorites were the lu (red) and the Sauvignon Blanc from Dollarhide Ranch. I'll admit, despite my sweet tooth, I've never been a fan of dessert wines. The St. Supry Moscato is very light, refreshing, and delicious. I think it would taste most delicious with peaches, apricots, or nectarines. The winery is known for its Moscato, so definitely give it a sip if you stop by.
Of the 5 wineries I visited this weekend this was by far the best. The wine there is by far the most delicious out of all the places we tried and they were very helpful and informative. They treated us with a lot of respect and we really appreciated that as sometimes when 6 young 20 something girls who don't know a lot about wine walk into a winery, we often get rude service . Not only did they comp our tasting because my friend was a local, but she also gave us two extra tastings on the house. Also, since this was our first winery, her recommendation to only buy 3 tastings to split between the 6 of us was a great suggestion.
I bought the Virtu for my parents (a dry white) which I'm seriously considering keeping for my self, it's that delcious, and my friends bought the Moscato, a delicious dessert wine, which we ended up drinking that night because we couldn't wait.
If you're in the area, go to St. Supery!
for our last stop in our wine tasting adventure, we went St. Supery.
it was different from the others in the sense that it was a lot less "wine country" like, and had more of a restaurant type feel. it was super crowded, but we stuck around just to taste their dessert wine, moscato.
many wineries have their own version of the moscato, also called, muscat in some places, but st. supery's was by far the best. it had a sweet fragrance of lychee, that made me salivate just by smelling it. a mixture of peaches, lychee, and tangerine make up the sweet, yet tart taste of the muscato wine. delicious. it's worth the trip and the wait.
we tasted 4 different wines for $15. their tasting portions were generous so we just shared glasses among 4 girls which was plenty.
they also have a selection of books on wine and cooking, and they sell riedel glasses in the corner. artsy and classy. i liked it.
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The fact that I haven't a written a review for the only winery I'm a member of baffles me. The service here is great for wine tasting and the value is definitely something I kept in mind but only after the quality of the wine itself.
Ok, this is where I admit I'm not wine enthusiast, nor am I a sommelier, but I do know what I like how what I don't. The wines that my group was recommended were very good, but I seriously don't like reds. Yet, when I had them here, I did enjoy them.
Then the guy here recommended this lychee moscato. Ok, I realy don't like moscato nor do I like lychee, but the combination was something that I loved so much I get it sent to me. So, the main point of this rant would be listen to the recommendations and go outside your comfort level for wine. Eat, Drink, and be merrry.
We went for the more expensive "exclusive" tasting. Soooo worth it. Seriously, fork out the extra cash for this one.Most supermarkets sell St-Supery products; and that's what they pour in the regular tasting room. The more exclusive one lets you taste things they only sell there at the winery.
Loved everything here. I ended up buying the Rutherford ($75!, and I was happy to spend it). Really nice service.
The building is just so-so. Kind of like an office building. Inside is pretty though.
I love love love their Muscat. Apparently lots of other people do too; as they have a special wine membership that ships ONLY the Muscat to the members. Seeing how it's easily available around here, that's not necessary for me.
Honestly, I can't remember too much detail about this one. The wine was alright, the tasting room and service were alright. There are more memorable places to visit in the area.
I didn't take them long to sucker me into their Wine Club. Free tastings for four is worth it alone. Very friendly staff and generous pours are all I've come across in the past. A bit more laid back than the other tasting rooms, but still offer some great wine. Their Elu and Virtu are both to die for.
st supery was always one of the wines i'd expect to see on the mid-tier of a menu of moderately priced wines. before visiting the grounds and their tasting room, i somehow expected a bit of an artsy environment, maybe the owners were into clean and simple design and featured a gallery of modernist paintings to comment upon while drinking their wines.
but then there's the reality of st supery. their buildings appear to have been part of the microsoft complex at some point - horribly out of place in napa valley. the tasting room feels like the snack room of a corporate office building. it strips all the "art" from the wine. the saving grace was the moscato we ended the $15 per person tasting session with.
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My husband really liked it, but it didn't blow me away. Felt really commercial, and the wines were just ok.
Hmm...yeah, don't have too much else to say about this place. The wines were eh, although they do have nice artwork on the bottles.
I've been here several times, and the experience has been different every time. You're thinking that's good, right? And it can be. But in this case, it's not.
One time (not at band camp), I stopped here and everything was wonderful. St. Supery had released a 1988 Cab Sauv, which they were selling for a mere $25, and I bought several bottles. It's hard to find wine from when Reagan was in office, so I felt as lucky as leprachaun coated in 4-leaf clovers with a horseshoe nailed to its butt.
Another time (also not at band camp), I stopped and it was very crowded, but I still found a place at the tasting bar and the woman who was pouring was very busy but still friendly and wasn't rushing me and poured a few wines that weren't on the list. This, I thought, was a good effort from a popular winery during a busy season. Bravo!
Another time (stop with the friggin band camp, already!), I stopped and the service was really slow, even though they weren't busy (I thought somehow I had turned my 6'4" frame invisible), and the wine wasn't that great, and the people behind the counter really looked like they didn't care. Or looked like they really didn't care. Or looked like they didn't really care. See, you can put that word almost anywhere in that sentence, and it still words. It's like word magic!
I'm not going back.
Band camp.
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I joined my best friend and her husband in Napa this weekend to do a little wine tasting...
We ended up coming to St Supery on recommendation from another couple we were with. It is very educational, you go upstairs and can read all about wine and look through lots of big windows and see the large fermentation and barrell rooms. In this educational part of the winery they also show what a real grapvine looks like under the earth. I had no idea you didn't have to water them in the summer, but they like the dry hard earth. There is also, (and this is smart!) all these different categories of red and white smells, pepper, grapefruit, wild flowers etc.. so you can get an idea of what smells to look for in a wine.
Once we went down to the tasting room we paid $15 to sample 4 wines. (this is on a Sat of a 3 day weekend) My girlfriend and I did the whites a Rose and the Moscato(of which I bought 2 bottles that stuff is sweet and Gooooood!). I also joined the wine club, and got all our tasting free.
I highly recommed this stop on the tour of Napa, the tasting building is really big and there is tons of picnic area outside to sit and hang out if you want.
I really enjoy all the different Cabs at St Suprey! They all have such different flavors and it is really nice to enjoy them side by side. We intended to just stop by and have a glass of one of our favorites, Elu but left new wine club members! The staff was very friendly and generous with their pours.
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i'm sorry st supe, but it's over. our affair has been dwindling for some time, but this past weekend's experience capped it off for me. while i do still enjoy your sauv blancs (dollarhide especially!) and the one guy who usually pours for us in the tasting room is super friendly and pours wines not on the tasting menu, there are a few rude folks about. for example, you're listed as dog friendly on napavinters.com, but when we entered, the rude old crotchety "welcome" guy stopped us and snapped, "how far do you think you're gonna go with blackie there?" i said i intended on marching "blackie" right on in to the tasting room since they're listed as dog friendly, and we are regular patrons (can we get some respect around here????). but they made part of our group hold her outside while others tasted sub-par over-corporatized wines. i've been coming here for nearly 5 years, and the wines are going down in quality for sure. still, the sauv blanc is delish, but i won't be back. sowwy.
This has been one of my favorite Napa Valley wineries since I first discovered it. It's next door to Peju (another favorite) and just a hop down the road from Robert Mondavi (yet another fave!) --- all three off which I consider to be the three points of what I refer to as *the golden triangle* making it easy to hop skip and jump... and stumble... giggling and laughing from one place to the next.
The servers in here are very generous and very cool; they like to set the tone up to a fun level. We ended up doing a full tasting of red wines with a full tasting of whites thrown in free of charge...how cool is that?!?!
And whilst all this complimentary wine tasting, our server was more than happy to share with us tastings of the same wine from two different years, making this last visit a true wine tasting experience.
I recommend stopping by here at the end of the day, while most other wineries close at 4 pm, they are open until 5 pm.
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The St. Supery Cabernet is by far one of my favorites! One of the smoothest wines you will ever drink and at about $25 you can't go wrong.
As for the winery itself, the cabernet tasting goes for $15 and you get to taste about 5 different wines, the higher end ones and most of them not available in stores.
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Great whites here... mainly their legendary Sauvignon Blanc. If I only drink one white the rest of my life, that is pretty much it. Still gorgeous after all these years.... A bottle of St Supery Sauvignon Blanc (a '97 no less) was the first bottle of non-dessert wine I ever bought.
Used to be this place was just a quaint white house with a huge and gorgeous grass lawn outside. You walk in, pay $5 for a tasting, and they give you a lifetime tasting pass. I still have mine from '98...hahaha. I don't think they really give them away anymore....Now they have this kinda olive green office complex looking building that looks kinda ugly behind the quaint white house. And half the lawn has been compromised for some concrete picnic area. Man.... too bad. It was so nice to sit on the lawn before. So they lose a star for that.
The white wine, and Pam, pouring our wine, were so awesome though, that they still get 4 stars. As we started talking to her, she ended up pouring almost the whole wine list, including the club member/reserve list for us. It was $10 for the "normal" tasting, and $20 for the "club member/reserved" tasting. The cabs were quite nice, though also quite pricey at $75 a bottle. I ended up joining their wine club, just for their whites (their sauv blanc really), so all of my friends' tastings were also comped. Nice to have a little not-too-touristy winery still in Napa... god just coming back to Napa this time, I realize why I always go to Sonoma now.
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Fond memories of my dad sneaking me wine tastings during the tour. Revisited this place today and really enjoyed myself. I'm taking one start off because it's a bit intimidating...maybe it's because we started off the day here? Me knowing nothing about wines felt like an idiot when the winemaster (not sure of the actual title) mixed the sauvignon blanc & muscato together and asked me to figure out which it was. I don't do well under pressure!!! But it was DAMN good.
I bought a bottle of the Muscato because I am unashamed to say that I love dessert wine. Tastings are $15 ($20 for reserve) and included with purchase, but they don't seem to care so much about "collecting" payment for tasting only. Maybe because you will inevitably buy something. This is also one of the few places where the tasting room has a good selection of whites.
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The tasting room isn't to upscale but it isn't really old school, it's somewhere in between. Personally, I'm a big fan of tasting rooms that have a lot of history and flavor, but you can't have it all.
Anyway, I wasn't a huge fan of their wine and the person helping us kinda lacked personality for me.
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Nice wines! We enjoyed premium tasting, a $15 cost for tasting 5 premium wines; the tasting was upstairs, where they have an art gallery with works of local artists. The regular wines in the tasting list include Elu from 2004. But the kind gentleman who served us at the counter let us try also the limited availability Elu from 2000 and 2001! Wow. All Elu wines tasted outstanding, but also, very different! Our favorite was definitely the 2000 (with hints of blackcurrent & walnut).
By the way, a 'regular' tasting is available downstairs, for $10 per person.
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This was my favorite of all the wineries I visited on my last trip.
The only reason we ended up there was because,the hotel where we stayed gave us a paper to present for free tastings.
I enjoyed my wine there more than anywhere else. The woman who gave us our tastings was really nice, and very personable. (She also gave us some bonus tastings!!)
Friends that bought wine got free posters.They're actually pretty enough to frame.(They got two, and were nice enough to give us one.)
i would definitely revisit St. Supery!
******I had a dessert wine there that was the best I ever tasted!
Lifetime membership is awesome.
4 stars because the wine's not the best but the tasting is FOREVER free, and at least one or two of the 5 tastes is always decent... Plus, the dessert wine is consistently good.
Did I mention the lifetime membership?
This place felt kind of sterile and the wines were nothing to write home about. I know this winery is more "commercial" than some of the other ones in Napa, but I was looking for a little bit more atmosphere and knowledge from the people who work there. The people pouring my wines really couldn't answer any of my questions and one time they poured the wrong wine and told me it was something else. However, they did put up with my drunken companion and gave us cheese and crackers, so I can't complain too much.
We happened to come here on a weekday, thus avoiding the crowds. The benefit? Very friendly staff... we paid for our tasting, and he ended up letting us taste a few others not on the list. While all tasty, I bought the moscato, a delicious dessert wine. Definitely a must to visit again, especially with the lifetime tasting pass!
Paid $5 for the lifetime membership/lifetime tasting...makes me feel happy. Pretty tasty wines and beautiful garden area. Worth a visit out here to escape the more commercialized wineries.
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4 stars for the Semillon.
Someone in my office does their PR and Marketing. So I was overly familar with their fan-fucking-tastic Elu, Virtu, Sauv Blanc and Cab. However once I actually went to the winery and discovered the hidden jewel, Semillon.
I was over the moon. The food pairing possibilities are endless.
Everything here smelled like guavas... but didn't really taste like them. I hate it when that happens.
Cool exploratorium sniffing thing upstairs where you can "train" your nose to recognize black pepper, bell pepper, white pepper (?!), cedar wood, cherries and the like. The cherry smelled more like the pink handsoap that they put in public bathrooms but whatev.
Nice boys who work here but I can't say I like the wine.
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OK I must be the odd man out here. I've always wanted to stop here because the grounds are nice from the street, but I never had. That is...until recently. I must say I thought it was awful. I take that back, the labels are beautiful, but I found all of the wine awful. Simply, the relationship must not have been meant to be between this vineyard and my palette.
This is a large commercial feeling winery, very modern.
They do offer good events such as dinners and grape stomping if you check the events calendar on their website.
Wow, we almost didn't stop here on our trip up to the valley last week, and I'm so glad we did. I am a happy new member of the St. Supery moscato club! Probably the best wine I tasted up there next to the Prager reisling I brought home with me. Talk about nectar of the gods.
The grounds are pretty, with the most amazingly huge old oak tree. It's too bad they felt the need to run a power line up it for a spotlight :( One of the coolest things I've ever experienced were the flowerbeds. Not for the flowers themselves, but the bees. There must have been hundreds, both bumble and honey bees, so many you could plug your ears and still feel the vibrations in your body and head. So surreal and beautiful.
So there's gorgeous grounds and a cool old oak tree and a neat Victorian out front, and the winery itself looks like a generic office park-type building made out of cement and glass. It looks like they stole a building from somewhere in Fremont or Milpitas and parked it in the Napa Valley and opened up shop. Not very asthetically pleasing, but I suppose it's all about the wine anyway.
Great wine, friendly staff, but it can get crowded sometimes. We passed by on our way up intending to stop but the parking lot was packed, and ended up stopping for a tasting on our way home. (Actually I had to be to work that afternoon, shh!) Like I said, I'm glad we stopped! I'll be back!
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I, too, am a happy lifetime tasting member here. Ok, I'll sign autographs later...
I've done the standard tastings dozens of times. The merlot is one thing that really stood out. However, the reserve tasting upstairs is much more memorable. This nice older man named Joe is very friendly, knowledgeable and always wears his nametag upsidedown. On purpose, of course. The reserve reds are lovely. You can take them outside and sit at their small tables on the grass and lazily sip away underneath the shade. Just be nice to Joe. He'll take care of you!
My boyfriend and I spent a day wine tasting in Napa and this was the 1st of 4 wineries we visited.
It was $15 for 5 tastes - the most expensive tasting price of any winery we visited that day. They have a large distribution network for their wines so many of them are in supermarkets like Safeway or Albertsons. But we found they also have some less common and more interesting labels (Elu and Virtu). We bought 2 bottles of wine and the total price for the wine plus tastings was $85.
The place was quite crowded but we didn't wait more than a few minutes. We had a couple of different servers and they were so busy that it was not like the other wineries where you get their undivided attention.
It's a nice place but I don't think I would go back - there are places that have better wine for the tasting price.
It's a larger place and so doesn't have the charm of some smaller spots like Nichelini. But they have lovely grounds and a very fun "demonstration vineyard" where we got to snack on growing cabernet franc, merlot, semmilion, and cabernet sauvignon grapes! The grapes were delicious, sweet and warm from the sun. I assume we were allowed to eat them. If we were not, this never happened.
i'm particular to their moscato. the moscato comes in full not half bottles so double the shiznit!
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Chalo saves the day! After 2 very disappointing tastings at Duckhorn and Peju, St. Supery's much more pedestrian tasting room yielded the most fun and the best flavors. This is a much bigger winery and they produce a broader and more commercial range of wines than the other two, but they clearly understand that their customers should enjoy the tastings. The tastes were 10 bucks for a flight of four, but I'm sure we tasted 9 or 10 wines by the time our tastemaster, a young fella by the name of Chalo, had finished with us. The pours were generous both in number and size, and everyone behind the counter was exhuberant and knowledgeable. They were very happy to tell us how the wines were made, including some unusual bottles they opened, and Chalo made sure we all tried his personal favorites. Both Chalo and the wines had lots of fans by the time we left, among the posse of young ladies and several young laddies in the tasting room Sunday. St. Supery is upgrading their rather humdrum tasting room with a large new garden out front, so I'll be back to check it out.
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since i have a "lifetime membership" here(whatever that means) i always stop by when i'm in wine country. nice sprawling garden area so you can buy some cheese and crackers, sip your wine and just hang out for awhile.
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