Emerald Coast Wine Cellars — Attraction in Florida

Visited this location on 6/23/2023 with a party of 10. Wine was ok, tho I was only given a sip to taste out of my whole crew. The presenter gave all of the specs of each wine but personality was just not there. I had a water bottle that was half full with a block of frozen water which started to melt.due to the heat as to reason I had it. I placed the water bottle on the counter but it started to leak from the condensation so I placed it on the floor. Not thinking anything of it because again it was water and the presenter did see it. He made the statement that no outside beverages (alcohol) could be brought in. Never saying that I couldn’t have water. Upon checking out my purchases in which I purchased more than my entire crew. I was told after the cashier took my money. That she noticed I put my bottle on the floor when the presenter mentioned no outside alcohol. That is against their policy. I actually laughed because all I could think at that point was, Is that the reason he only gave me a sip🤔😂. I put the bottle on the counter and said ma’am this is water and I placed it on the floor because it was leaking and she was like yea with sarcasm. That is not customer service at all and if you felt that I was breaking your rules, you should have approached me about it from the start. I would never visit that place again as I did not feel any warmth or that we were even wanted there. Black people have money as well and will spend it on what we want, just a FYI and I’ve also experienced many wine tasting and this was not it. Maybe because...

I’ve stopped in this winery multiple times over the past few years and I’ve always loved it. I used to get a couple bottles of wine and wine slushie mixes for the fam on vacation. Me and my bestfriend were driving through destin last week to go to panama city beach and I told her we had to stop at this winery to get some goodies. We got there at 4:30 grabbed the slushie mix and asked to try two wines. The old stubby guy was standing around, glaring at us from behind the wine tasting counter. When I asked to try the wine he just said “no” then I chuckled thinking he was just being goofy. Then proceeded to say, in a very rude matter- as if we were stupid, that “wine tasting was over at 4 and blueberry wine goes with our blueberry pom slushie mix”. If you’re not doing wine tasting your entire store hours maybe take the giant flags down that say “free wine tasting” or put a sign somewhere. Needless to say we put all of our stuff back and walked out. Could’ve easily made a 60-70$ sale but guy decided he wanted to be an AHOLE. never again...

We went for the tasting, the winery itself is located elsewhere, and apparently you can get glasses to drink at that location, this tasting centre with a boutique up store was located in a convenient location, especially when on vacation. The tasting itself was a very good experience. Only two of the wines are on the dryer side. Everything else is quite sweet, so if you have a sweet tooth, this is a great place for you. We bought two wines, we are currently trying one of the bottles of Chardonnay, which was one of the less sweet wines and are little bit disappointed it doesn’t taste like the wine we tasted during the tasting. we have another bottle to try as well, so I hope that reflects the tasting a little bit better. The share is imports were nice touch and the blueberry wine. I feel like I’ve had better blueberry wines elsewhere, but this is made 100% with blueberries and is a nice addition to...