Rocky Pond Winery Tasting Room — Attraction in Chelan

After reading the reviews we were excited to visit this place. Unfortunately we were very disappointed. We were greeted warmly and ordered a couple tastings (5 tastings for $25) the wait staff that greeted us made it seem as though they would be bringing the wine to our group to complete the tasting. We did the first tasting and our wait staff was not attentive to our group at all we waited about 30 mins before going to the bar to request our next tasting. Meanwhile our original wait staff was schmoozing another table this whole time. While waiting at the bar we were then ignored by the other wait staff behind the bar until she doubled back and proceeded to give us wine 2 in the tasting. See photo- this is the smallest wine tasting that I have ever received at an establishment, not on par with the amount we received for our initial tasting. The second wait staff did the rest of the wine tasting(if you call that amount a tasting) before our group was thoroughly disappointed with the service and wine and proceeded to check out leave without completing our tasting. As we were proceeding to leave early our initial wait staff apologized for the lack of service. Our group communicated our dissatisfaction to which the original wait staff who responded with “I was trying to sell some cases.” This statement only continues to validates the lack of regard the staff has for its patrons. Might I add that the second wait staff kept referring to the first wait staff as “the boss”. This was unacceptable service especially from someone who was supposed to be higher level at this...

My wife and I decided to make this our final dinner stop of the week. I typically won’t write reviews, but the food and wine here were completely unique and absolutely delicious. It all started off with a unique wine tasting on a classic Washington tree. Matt, our waiter and guide through the history of Rocky Pond and the local Washington area wine, couldn’t have been more helpful and outgoing! Chef Austin is an incredible chef who’s creativity came through in his food. We both ordered the “chef’s feast” and all 6 courses were our favorites. The squid ink scallop filled tortellini was the best tortellini either of us have ever had. We can’t recommend this place enough and we will be coming back to the lake only on days that the kitchen will be...

Rocky Pond has fabulous wine, and they have an excellent kitchen with some great food available. Their service is also wonderful. All of the staff were terrific and very informative. Great downtown location in Chelan, too! The only thing most people would want to know is that their tasting fees are really high - $30 each. And unlike every other winery in the area, those fees are not waived with a 2 bottle purchase. I suppose my wife and I should have asked about that instead of assuming it. $60 for two tasting fees, when we bought 4 bottles of wine and had some food (which was outstanding, by the way), was a rather unwelcomed surprise. Other than the tasting fees, we had a...