Zaca Mesa Winery

User Reviews of Zaca Mesa Winery

Yelp.com Review - by Danielle F.

5.0 of 5 stars. Zaca Mesa has a nice tasting room with a good wine selection at a wide price range. As a wine club member, I enjoy coming here with my friends and tasting in the private room. The people who pour...
yelp.com - user review - 10/04/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Brett D.

4.0 of 5 stars. Definitely the largest and most 'well known' of the wineries visited by my crew... if you don't know the Zaca Mesa brand, clearly you're not schooled in the ways of Costco wine shopping, young...
yelp.com - user review - 09/28/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Marianne C.

5.0 of 5 stars. For the reviewer who said they used your liking of Zaca Mesa wines as a marker to show your bad taste, this person has probably never had their premier Syrahs that you can get by belonging to the...
yelp.com - user review - 09/22/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Sherri J.

4.0 of 5 stars. We love this winery. The staff is very friendly and wines are delicious. We always stop when we are in the area.
yelp.com - user review - 09/09/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by cindi n.

1.0 of 5 stars. came here on a cool, grey, drizzly day. the drive on foxen canyon road was pretty cool under this weather condition. would be cool to check out the trail by the tasting room under warmer sunnier...
yelp.com - user review - 08/08/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Denise L.

5.0 of 5 stars. Old review..."The Santa Barbara wine trail brings back so many memories. During the fall and winter of 2005, I worked as a wine administrator for Curtis Winery and was allowed to venture through the...
yelp.com - user review - 07/31/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Jonathan S.

3.0 of 5 stars. I don't think it's worth it to head to Zaca Mesa. It's far off the wine path and the wines do not meet the hype. I did like their syrah.
yelp.com - user review - 07/15/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Lisa Z.

5.0 of 5 stars. Zaca Mesa is a great winery - amazing wines and a beautiful, airy tasting room with a high vaulted ceiling, rustic wood building and picnic grounds admist the CA oaks, nature paths with snake...
yelp.com - user review - 07/02/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by David O.

5.0 of 5 stars. Zaca Mesa makes stellar wine, as always. I was very disappointed to hear they'd sold out of Black Bear Syrah. Still, we ended up buying half a dozen bottles of Viognier and half a dozen of various...
yelp.com - user review - 06/26/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by ladyboss l.

1.0 of 5 stars. I do NOT understand what / why people are raving this place!?? This place was OVERPACKED with people from tour buses, etc.. & there was only 3 employees pouring for about 20 or so people..the service...
yelp.com - user review - 05/26/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by T.J. M.

4.0 of 5 stars. This is a good place to take friends who are just learning about wine. All their wines are very approachable to the novice wine drinker. I take my friends here when we are in the area, because they...
yelp.com - user review - 04/01/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Victor M.

4.0 of 5 stars. Like the setting. They've got a great picnic area.Nice and isolated.The wines were not so great to my taste.
yelp.com - user review - 03/21/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by GrilledCheese U.

5.0 of 5 stars. Zaca Mesa is a gem of a Rhone style winery in a region of mediocre weak sauce wines. Perhaps it's my palate however, I have never had a wine which I disliked (other than the z-gris rose) at Zaca...
yelp.com - user review - 03/09/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Kasey E.

4.0 of 5 stars. This place cranks out a lot of different varietals. The Syrah is a solid stand by and the '03 is the best of the bunch. This is a pretty busy big production kind of place so I'm sure experiences will...
yelp.com - user review - 03/04/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by William T.

2.0 of 5 stars. Zaca Mesa ... sorry, but this wine sucks. I usually use this (and Firestone) to gauge people and their taste in wine. If you like Zaca Mesa, you don't know much about wine. (or have not gotten to...
yelp.com - user review - 02/27/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Ella B.

4.0 of 5 stars. We went with some friends who are members of the wine club so we didn't have to pay the tasting fee and was able to taste some reserve wines. The service is friendly. I like their tasting "room" but...
yelp.com - user review - 01/14/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Lena B.

2.0 of 5 stars. i don't f*cking care how beautiful their winery is or how great their wines are...i can't give a favorable review if i had to wait 20 minutes in between the pourings and was constantly told to move...
yelp.com - user review - 12/09/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Lisa S.

2.0 of 5 stars. This was the first stop on our wine tasting tour, and I was pretty geeked to go since I had read the yelp reviews beforehand. Unfortunately, our experience here was one of the worst we had all day......
yelp.com - user review - 12/08/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Thomas J.

2.0 of 5 stars. This is your typical Wal-Mart tasting room experience. Skip it. I'm only giving the second star because I think 2 or 3 of the 9 wines they poured might actually deserve a real tasting. Don't get me...
yelp.com - user review - 12/01/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Jessica P.

3.0 of 5 stars. I never thought of myself as a wine snob, I just like wine. But I do pay attention to what I drink, when I drink it, and with what I enjoy it with. I guess that makes me a student of wine. I went here...
yelp.com - user review - 11/20/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Joe B.

4.0 of 5 stars. I went here with a group of friends that were, curiously, on a simultaneous oyster cracker tasting tour that took us to many of the same places. I had my first moment where I realized "Holy s@#$, I'm...
yelp.com - user review - 11/13/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by kayla v.

3.0 of 5 stars. Zaca Mesa has a nice intimate tasting room, decorated with big barrels of wine, dimly lit, and high ceilings. They are currently under construction so tours are not available. There's a life size...
yelp.com - user review - 11/07/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Beth T.

4.0 of 5 stars. On Robert's suggestion we headed over to Zaca Mesa, another winery I had not visited before. We arrived to beautiful grounds filled with large oak trees, a small set of grapes in front of the...
yelp.com - user review - 11/06/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Holly T.

3.0 of 5 stars. Good job, Zaca Mesa. You've gone from being my favorite winery on the trail to being completely bumped off my list. It doesn't matter how good your wine is if the tasting room experience is lousy....
yelp.com - user review - 09/06/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Edgar S.

2.0 of 5 stars. Short Version: Well, at least the grounds are lovely.Long Version: Sadly, I'm not talking about coffee. The facilities are beautiful here, and the staff is friendly enough, to be sure. But I found...
yelp.com - user review - 09/04/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Maureen C.

2.0 of 5 stars. It's just OK.Zaca was recommended to have good value wines, and yes, they are decently priced (less than $25), but they are less than decent quality. Just not all that tasty.However, for a non-white...
yelp.com - user review - 08/30/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Hilary P.

5.0 of 5 stars. I gotta say, I am a member of the Zaca Mesa fan club! I've been here several times over the last 6 months (call me a wino if you must - I can take it!) and always enjoy my time here. The grounds are...
yelp.com - user review - 08/13/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Megan B.

2.0 of 5 stars. Obviously I had a much different experience than most of the people who've reviewed this winery. I did like the fact that they had some odd varietals that you can't find at other wineries in the...
yelp.com - user review - 06/19/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Jessica L.

3.0 of 5 stars. Overall, we really enjoyed the wines here. There is a tasting fee, but you get to try 8 wines (I think, I was a bit tipsy by then).They have some varietals that are not common elsewhere, like the...
yelp.com - user review - 03/29/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Kevin A.

5.0 of 5 stars. AT LAST!Congratulations, you've found one of the best wineries in the area. I really loved this place, so much so that I actually joined their wine club. Zaca Mesa excels with Cotes du Rhone...
yelp.com - user review - 02/28/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Brian C.

5.0 of 5 stars. Out of the eight wineries that I've been to in the SYV, Zaca Mesa is by far the best. I think it's the combination of several qualities that make me give it such praise.1) Location. It has a...
yelp.com - user review - 02/22/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Danielle L.

4.0 of 5 stars. Good wine, good ambiance, but that's not why I am giving them four stars...1. They have a giant chess set outside. Thaz cool.2. I stole some rosemary from a bush growing near the property. Okay, maybe...
yelp.com - user review - 01/21/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by K M.

4.0 of 5 stars. The background: I'm kind of mystified about Zaca Mesa after visiting this weekend. The tasting was $7, and we had to give back the glass that was not a Riedel and had "Zaca Mesa" printed on the base...
yelp.com - user review - 01/01/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Tracy T.

5.0 of 5 stars. Well, as of July 2007, the tasting is $10. Seems pretty pricey for a tasting and a disappointing wine glass (it has Zaca Mesa printed on the base. it's hard to see and not much of a keepsake).But I...
yelp.com - user review - 07/17/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Helen C.

5.0 of 5 stars. One of my favorite stops in SoCal's wine country. You have to pay for a tasting, but you can share one tasting with another person since you can get pretty tipsy when you're out tasting all day....
yelp.com - user review - 07/03/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Scott M.

3.0 of 5 stars. A nice winery and very popular, but $10 for a tasting? Isn't the whole premise that I am there to buy their over-priced wine? Well, give me a taste and sell it to me then.Anyway, I am not a big fan of...
yelp.com - user review - 06/09/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Tracy G.

5.0 of 5 stars. The second winery of the day didn't disappoint. The tasting is 6 wines but we were lucky to get to try the reserve wines (which were "not available for pouring") and that just clinched it. They are...
yelp.com - user review - 06/04/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Courtney S.

4.0 of 5 stars. From our visit in April 2006:We went here because I read that the wines were pretty good and the place had a sense of humor. This fun little place also has a we allow dogs policy and we loved meeting...
yelp.com - user review - 05/15/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Maureen W.

5.0 of 5 stars. I give Zaca Mesa 5 stars for a few reasons:1. Love the wine. Their syrah is the best in the valley...especially for the price. It's not overpriced SB wine that they think is "all that" because of...
yelp.com - user review - 05/14/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Christa C.

4.0 of 5 stars. Ok, this winery scored major points with me right off the bat because it's dog friendly. Yay for the pooches. We'll there was only one with it's owner but animals around a winery makes me happy.The...
yelp.com - user review - 04/11/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Rafa C.

5.0 of 5 stars. Needing to get away for the weekend (tenting the house for termites), I wanted to do the "Sideways" thing and went to Solvang. First, NEVER go to Solvang as an end destination! Talk about rolling...
yelp.com - user review - 01/22/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Richard S.

5.0 of 5 stars. I second everything Holly said, especially the part about the reserve tasting. Me and my wife are currently in love with the "Z Three" blend (Syrah, Mourvedre, and Grenache). We always try to keep a...
yelp.com - user review - 08/28/2006
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