Roche Winery Downtown — Attraction in Sonoma

My husband and I first visited Roche winery in the early 90's when we lived in Detroit. On a yearly basis, we would order a case of the tamerex wine to remind us of the good time we had back then. Since moving to Florida 8 yrs. ago, we haven't placed an order. Last week, after reminiscing about Roche winery, we called and placed an order. We asked Dave, who took our order, to email the shipping number so we could track our order. (The shipping cost $63.00). We made this request 3 times. Although he said he would, Dave never extended this small courtesy. This will be the last order we will ever purchase from Roche. Perhaps $360 is not a lot of money to Dave or Roche wineries, but it is to us. I could've bought 2 cases of white merlot for that...

If this had been our first stop,I may have felt differently about our visit but with so many choices in the area, the competition is steep .Highlights, I really enjoyed their cheese and fruit plate and tap room for AC while tasting. Downside. We were given a packet of roughly 5 crackers for the cheese plate for 2 people, which didn't even come close to enough. When I asked if we could have a few more crackers, we were told they could sell them to us. Ok fine, sell them to us. The pours were extremely inconsistent between the two of us. My partner had a reasonable 1-2 oz pour per wine whereas mine was maybe 1 oz and service was very slow despite it being a Monday, with very little information given about the wine by the woman serving...

My wife and I love coming into the sonoma area and once visit we had lunch at the Eldorado Kitchen. Well, lucky for us there was wine tasting across the street!!!

We sat outside because it was a nice cool day and sitting by the fire with some red wine sounded right up our alley. Our sommelier was very nice and informative and we both got a Reserve tasting flight. We both really liked their pinot's and their Genevieve varietal.

If your ever in the area I would highly recommend stopping by. we went there on a weekday but I can see where they would be packed after normal business hours and on the weekends due to tourism travel so plan and make reservations...