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Roudon-Smith Winery

4.5 (26 reviews)
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Crystal H.

We dropped in Saturday around 5:30pm. The owner was pouring the wines and he explained the wines he poured. Tasting fee was $10 for 7 wines. Wished I could say I liked the wines. The Duet red blend was the best out of the 7 wines. Most of the wines smelled or tasted aged. It wasn't to our taste. They had live singer when we were there.

Outside view from the street!
Serina A.

I stopped in here with a friend and had the best tasting of 6 wines for a VERY affordable price. AL was very kind and gave so much information with each wine he poured and turned the tasting into a wonderful experience and science lesson! We learned about the different areas each wine comes from and a bit on how they are created. Recommendations: EVERYTHING! My favorites were the Zinfandel, Cuvée, and the Chardonnay. All are very crisp and perfectly flavored with no heavy after tastes. Perfect for sipping and with meals. My friend and I ended up leaving with 3 bottles of wine each because they were TOO good. I'm so glad we came here and found this place. All of the wines were fantastic, even the ones I usually don't prefer (Al changed my mind about Zinfandel's!). This was such a lovely stop in downtown Saratoga. I highly recommend and I will most definitely be back to purchase Roudon-Smith wines as often as I can!

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Natalie M.

This was a fun tasting experience! They have 3 high top tables outside during this time. The wine tasting is $10 for 6 tastings. We tried a grenache blanc, chardonnay, pinot noir, tempranillo, a duet blend and a syrah. My favorites were the grenache blanc and syrah! The flavors of the syrah were bold and full bodied. I was pleasantly surprised with the grenache blanc because I am not that fond of whites overall but this was delicious and smooth. I liked the environment but would have loved an explanation of the different wines. It definitely makes the experience more personal and fun. At times in the beginning we were about to be given the next tasting when we hadn't finished the previous one (though we were told that we didn't have to rush but, still felt rushed haha). Despite that, I still had a nice experience. The owner came later and was very nice!

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“Downtown Saratoga is adorable and Roudon-Smith is always our favorite place to go on the main drag.”

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I don't really like writing negative reviews, but here goes…read more I have been visiting this winery for over 10 years. I mainly go to enjoy live music and socializing with friends. Also the drive and location is beautiful scenery. However after Covid, things have changed a lot. In the past you would find an available table, bring your picnic lunch (in the patio area with the shaded overhang), go inside the tasting room, sample some wines and buy a bottle. Great experience then. Also well versed in wine employees helping you. This is not the case at all now! Since Covid, you can no longer bring in your own food and they would not let us even go into the tasting room! You are forced to sit at a table and have "table service." I can't even think of it as table service because over this past weekend we had horrible service both days we went. We like to see our favorite local bands play at this beautiful winery. On Saturday when we went, we were immediately hounded by our server about what we wanted to order. We hadn't even had time to look at the menu. They bring only one printed menu and tell us to scan their QR code. That's fine, but some of the people in our group are old school and prefer a printed menu. I am shocked how much $$ the wine is here. It used to be reasonable but it is not anymore. The cheapest bottle is a bottle of Rose for $40. It was just meh. All the other wine choices are $46+ per bottle. And if I'm going to be buying some wine and enjoying drinking it with friends and enjoy live music it would be nice if I could bring in my own snacks/picnic so that I don't have to spend more. Our table of 5 spent well over $300 during the 3 hours we were there. On Sunday, we had even worse service. As soon as we walked in and sat down they saw I had a soft ice cooler. I was immediately told that we can't bring in our own food. I explained to the server and said I brought in a cooler because you do not have ice here, and the leftover food I purchased the day before (cheese, salami) was getting very hot during that service while enjoying music. So I wanted to be more prepared to put the food in a cooler as needed. Also, some of us like "ice" water and on a hot day, the water they bring out is not cool. The way I was first approached was very rude. Our main server that helped our group was not very nice at all and rude. She kept coming over to us when we first got there to see if we were ready to order. None of us had time to even look at the menu. She also did not know anything about wine. That was obvious. When one of us in the party asked about the different chardonnay choices which one is more oaky or buttery, she did not know and she did not even try and get more information for us. Also it was a very hot day in the high 90's and most of us wanted lighter white wines rather than red. The winery needs to get rid of their "table service", the servers are inexperienced with wines, rude, pushy to put in an order and impatient. They need to bring back how they used to have a nice experience here before Covid. When I told my rude server I wanted to get my bill and check out, she said "we have bad wifi over here at this table so you need to come up to our monitors for that..." then she walked away. Well that was BS cuz prior to that we were ordering our options from their QR code and they had good wifi for that. I guess she didn't like that I never came to their monitors where you "check in" and she came back to me and suddenly she was able to help me at my table to check out. So sad how downhill this place has gone. I hope the owner will think about how the after Covid changes are and that the staff is rude and not experienced with wine.

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