Reviews for Castel Grisch Winery in Watkins Glen, NY
We visited this winery on a rainy day, and still were able to take some awesome pictures. The establishment has a beautiful deck... with a great view, and the grounds have a unique style. The lady who did our tasting was very pleasant and welcoming. The wineswere light and crisp. Overall we had a good experience. Read more
Awesome winery to stop by?Nice tasting room and scenic view deck?Service is good enough?with $10 for each flight?we can't be... more satisfied. The backyard is great for either kids or dinosaur fans. We bought a couple bottles for sure?as those semi drytasted so good?Will be back next year? Read more
What?s great little winery in the Finger Lakes. This one is ?off the beaten path? but not far from other local... attractions/wineries. But we?ll worth seeking out! Beautiful countryside, nice big tasting area. Not pretentious!! Theservers did a wonderful job telling us about the winery and wines and the tasting was at our pace which was so appreciated. Wewere able to sit out on the big beautiful back deck and relax. Grabbed some cheese and crackers and just enjoyed the last of thesummer. Afterwards we wandered the grounds and saw sheep grazing and a menagerie of Donosaur and animal figures (see photos). Our favorite winery in the area. Would definitely return and highly recommend! Read more
Had a fantastic time at this winery! Taking a trip here did not feel awkward, especially since I have not been to many wineries... in the past. The younger woman who was working was wonderful and made my girlfriend and I feel incredibly welcomed. We had afun time exploring the property and looking at all of the giant dinosaur figurines and other animal figures they have scatteredacross the property. They have a dry, sweet, and mixed list for the wine tasting. We had tried the "Sweet" list which gave us 5different ~2.5 oz cups to try. We really loved all of the flavors that were given to us especially the Seneca Dream Red, theSeneca Dream Red Bubbly, and the Vidal Blanc Iced. They also have a disk golf course if you are interested in that. The coursetravels around the property and looks like a lot of fun to do. We went on a Tuesday afternoon and there was a couple peoplethere when we arrived. The property is off of the main road so it is a nice quiet place to go and enjoy so great wines. Read more
Hands down quirkiest winery I?ve ever been to. Came with our two young kids after a busload of tipsy women were leaving to... continue their Monday afternoon celebration elsewhere. The lone tasting room employee was visibly exasperated (as anyone wouldbe after a horde of drunk people just put them through the ringer), but was extremely gracious, kind & awesome. Wines skewedmore to sweeter whites, with a few drier whites and just a few reds. We are both dry red drinkers, so we had the only dry red,Baco Noir, and a strawberry flavored slush concoction?both were decent. The iced drink was especially clutch on a 92 degreeday. The quirkiness came in the form of the herd of sheep that have free reign over the property, the public chalkboard wall,the massive array of life-sized ?dinosaurs? on the property & the disc golf course amongst them. Kids loved it, the sheep wereadorable, and as someone who travels with discs it was nice to see a course on a winery. Needless to say we will be back forthe welcoming & zany atmosphere, even if the majority of the wines aren?t necessarily our style. Read more
Making our way to Ithaca, we took the scenic route and stopped at this winery. Being dog friendly we were already impressed.... Although the wines are not quite our style, we were over the top impressed with the lovely young lady who had only been on thejob for 5 days. Very attentive and a great attitude. Definitely went above and beyond our expectations and she was aiming toplease. Read more
This is an older style vineyard, looking more like a manor. The outside is a little rundown with needing painting and a new sign... but once you walk in you see a beautiful tasting room. We were given a three flight choice this time: sweet, dry and mixedflight. I tried the sweet while Jammie went with the mixed. After ordering you go sit down which we decided to do on the patio.Again the patio and chairs could use a good round of paint and the deck railing makes it hard to fully enjoy the view of SenecaLake over the vines. Why don't people build terraced decks!! The tasting is an at your pace of a tasting board which I love. Nostress to drink fast or to slow down. The music in the background also gives it a chill feel. They also have a chalk wall thatpeople write their names on which is such a great idea! The wines were great. As we were leaving the vineyard though we cameacross some 40-60 ft statues of dinosaurs so we decided to stop. While looking around we came across more dinosaurs in thewoods. We started to walk around and get some pictures when a man approached us. We were both worried we had stumbled on someprivate property but it was the owner of the vineyard out walking his dog. He was seeing up a scene with the dinos in the woodsfor people to come and view. It got us to stop and he wasnt even done yet. Can't wait too see what it looks like at the end. Wealso noticed that people were playing disc golf that was set up around the property. This looks like more fun then we gave itcredit, definitely worth coming back for! Read more
The views here are amazing! We celebrated a birthday here outside for our tasting and it was lovely. Very spacious and lovely to... just sit back and enjoy. The only issue we?re the bees, which is understandable but we enjoyed ourselves and would definitelyreturn Read more