Where is the wine? It is a shame to call it "wine festival", when there are basically no stands offering wine, or introducing local wineries. It is a flea market with a few wine dispatching tents where supermarket quality wine is served, very little variety for a ridiculously high price per glass.
REPLY ON ORGANIZER'S REACTION: First of all, any second rate restaurant has a bigger variety of wines than this "wine festival", so don't mention that you provide 10 different wines, it is pathetic to be proud of that since there are probably hundreds of wineries in California who could advertise their products in a "wine festival". Second, the St. Francis Winery is not even a participent of the festival, so I could not even get a glass with the testival ticket which I had to buy for $12 from the organizer's tent. Third, it is totally misleading to call it a "wine festival" in the title, since 99% of the stands represent arts or advertisement for all sorts of vendors, such as bank, costruction, and...
Read moreI have been coming to this Mountain View Art and Wine Festival for the last 6 years now!!! It’s something I have always look forward to coming every September!! It has became my annual tradition to go to event that had stuck with me ever since. I love walking this entire strip all around Castro Street! Cool Breezes and Lovely Sunshines!!! There are Plenty of Vendors, Tons of Activities, lively Musics, Arts, Cafes, Crafts, Paintings, Foods, Drinks, Beers, Wines so much more Entertainments!!! Wonderful experience here...
Read moreIt's a shame to call this event an "Art and Wine Festival" when out of hundreds of stands only four are representing wineries, with three of them offering identical five wines. Even more ridiculous is you are forced to pay $12 for a full glass of wine when you only want a small sample of a wide...
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