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Great wine and amazing tasting experience.

We have had some great experiences at this winery and especially enjoyed one visit where there was food paired with the wines but there was also a time when one old guy serving was especially rude and snobby. That sort of ruined the mood unfortunately. We usually take home a nice port wine when we go.

Love the Zin and Malbec, servers are helpful and friendly. Small picnic area for lunch or whatever you bring to snack on. Ports are great too.

Winemake Aaron was super knowledgeable. Malbec was great. Was at Bernardus in Carmel Valley previously and went to Davis. Knows what he's doing. Looking forward to interesting things from Fenestra in the future.

One of my favorite wineries in Livermore. Great selection of wine, friendly staff, and they're pretty loose/flexible on the tastings. A $10 tasting is supposed to get you 10 of their approximately 20 wines they pour, but they don't really keep track. And if you buy $16 of wine, you do get half your tasting fee back.

Very pretty setting, great for picnics. I'm not especially fond of the wines, but everyone's pallette is different and I have several friends who like it.

But to be honest this is my passion and life's work for the past 20 years. What is Big Dog Vineyards to me? Four words: 1. EXPRESSIVE. Most of our wines are estate grown right on this hilltop in the east bay hills. Optimum soils and bay-influence weather make this the perfect location to grow Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc. The wines are delicious, intense, expressive and sometimes big. (It's hard to be Big Dog Vineyards and make a wimpy wine.) We feature intense flavorful red wines and french oak (full- ML) Chardonnay that also appeals to both white and red wine drinkers. 2. LOCAL: Our wines compete favorably with the best of Napa and Sonoma but when it's time to enjoy an afternoon of wine tasting we're just 3.2 miles up the hill from Silicon Valley. Rather than fight traffic to the wine country you can be here in minutes enjoying fine wines, great music, and a friendly atmosphere. We're honored to be your neighborhood winery that happens to be as good as it gets. 3. FRIENDLY: Our goal is to give you a warm friendly experience centered about great wine, good friends, and friendly company. Most Saturdays feature free live acoustic music on the patio. On clear days the view is from Almaden Valley to the SanFrancisco skyline. 4. CONSISTENT: The most frequent comment we hear from our customers is that they liked every single wine on the tasting flight. Why is this a surprise? Our wines are all made by hand with the utmost attention to our uni

Friendly atmosphere and great wine! Owners are at the tasting room often - very down to earth people doing what they love to do! Daisy (their dog) is also very friendly.