This place is absolutely AWFUL!
Save your time. Save your…read moremoney. Most of all save yourself from being insulted by the rude, old, nasty, crab of a woman who works giving the tastings at the boutique.
Let me start by saying that there is no shortage of Vineyards on Bruce street. Until we arrived at Vignoble Gagliano, my friends and I were having an amazing afternoon exploring all the local vineyards.
Our pleasant moods were cut off abruptly when we entered the boutique to find what looked like the 'hostess' throwing back a glass of wine. We all became awkward and flustered as she stared at us like we were disturbing her.
My cousin then approached her and asked her if we could have a tasting. She thrust a price list at her. My cousin then asked her which wines she recommended. She haphazardly motioned to the list of wines in front of us. My cousin pressed on, asking which were her best sellers. She snapped, answering, they're all best sellers.
I wanted to avoid confrontation, so I pointed to a wine on the list and I was quickly told I couldn't have that one.
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(Here we were, paying customers, happy to spend lots of $$$ at all the places we visited today and we couldn't even get this old crone to even look at us never mind answer us.)
We all picked a hand full of wines to try and started what was possibly the most disagreeable wine tasting with one of the most disagreeable people I have ever met.
I wish I could say the the wine was so good that it redeemed the situation, but it was just bloody awful. My cousin said it the best, the wine was as bad and as sour as our 'hostess'.
Halfway during our tasting, some labourers came in from the field. Dripping with sweat and looking worse for wear. During our tasting is when she decided to berate them for not having cleaned their clippers, and then started mumbling and complaining to herself. At this point we were so done. We just wanted to pay and leave, but lucky for us! We still had two fortified wines to try.
They were sickening, just absolutely revolting. I ended up discreetly pouring mine into the bin that was located just beside me, in fear that she may give me hell over not liking the wine.
After the last tasting, we decided that we wouldn't buy anything. (We tried to buy at least one bottle from every vineyard we went to today to support these local growers and the fine products they are producing right here in Quebec) However, there was no way we were supporting this business!
When we approached the cash to pay for our tasting she insisted that one person pay for everyone. My cousin clarified that we would all be paying separately for our tastings. She told my cousin it must be paid together because she wasn't going to ring up more then one bill. We were all about to protest when we decided, she is just so absolutely, terrifyingly miserable, that it's not worth our time. We paid together and walked out.
My only regret is not reading this other persons review on Yelp first before going. She is so spot on. Glad to see we weren't the only ones treated like crap.