Sovino Wine Bar & Merchant — Restaurant in Monterey

Don’t come here unless you want to get robbed. I came in on a day where not one person was here so keep in mind it wasn’t busy at all, got one glass of wine to sit outside, study, and enjoy the weather. My total came to 12$ and some change, and I wrote that in the total on the receipt very clearly. But somehow when I checked my credit card statement I was charged $25.13… it was not just a random hold charge, why was the charge not an even number? And the money did come out of my account on my end, that has never ever happened to me as a hold charge anywhere else that I have been. So I called and the “manager” seemed very overly flustered and guilty on the phone when I told her what had happened and kept saying I dont know how that happened, it has never happened before, blah blah blah when this was very clearly on purpose. It was overall just a really weird experience and I recommend walking the 20 feet down to the other wine place who has way better customer service and...

A nice little tasting room right by the wharf. There is a deal on yelp for 2-for-1 tastings and 10% off purchases which we took advantage of. My boyfriend and I tried 5 different wines each for $10 total.They also have a happy hour deal till 6pm, I believe it was half of glasses of wine.

The two bartenders were both nice and gave us a few local dinner suggestions. They were very knowledgeable about the local wine region and town.

The wine shop itself is very cute. They have nice wine inspired decorations and all of the bottles we saw seemed to be special, certainly not your average grocery store selection.

It was a good place to stop early in the trip so we could use their recommendations and local tips throughout...

The overall atmosphere of this place is nice and cozy. We first wanted to have tasting fly but the samples were extremely small so we ordered a bottle which was really nice, most probably I'll look for the same wine in the future. Along with our drink we ordered a cheese plate but honestly, I can't say that cheese plate shares the good quality of the wine we had. Only the nicely caramelized almonds were nice but all the others in the plate were samples of the average cheese from Wholefoods. Not bad, but definitely not special as well.

We had two servers. One of them, the lady, was very nice and friendly and the other server is the main reason for the lacking two stars in...