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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WINERY REVIEW

Southern California has become a great place to go wine tasting!  Great wines, great wineries -- and great people!  This website is dedicated to bringing you the best info on wineries in San Diego and Riverside counties -- and a few other places as well.  Enjoy!
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Priority Wine Pass

1/26/2019

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​So here’s the story on the Priority Wine Pass.  I’m a particularly difficult person to buy presents for – I don’t have a lot of hobbies, I’m not a golfer, and I’m not a do-it-yourself person.  But I do this blog and hence spend a lot of time visiting wineries.  So, not surprising, one of my sons bought me a Priority Wine Pass for my birthday last year.  In looking at their website, I noticed two things:  1) it provides savings at wineries throughout California, Oregon, and Washington, and 2) they have a concierge service, i.e., they help you plan wine tasting trips.  So I decided to try out their concierge service for an upcoming trip to Napa with my neighbors.
We gave the concierge basic information – travel info including where we planning to stay, types of wines we liked best, price we were willing to pay for a bottle of wine, and how long we were going to be in Napa.  We added that we wanted to include a visit to Stag’s Leap.  They came back with a two day plan for visiting eight wineries, seven of which offered Priority Wine Pass discounts.  We made some changes to the itinerary but still wound up saving $175 per couple for the five wineries on their list that we visited!  Needless to say, our friends went out and purchased passes.  I should add that the two wineries we liked the least on the trip were not on the concierge’s list and did not take the pass.
Since this website is all about visiting wineries, it was a natural to consider working with Priority Wine Pass.  They think so as well, to the tune of a $20 discount on the pass, dropping the cost from around $60 to around $40 – that’s a 33% discount!  Just go to their website and use the code scwr.  A number of Southern California wineries that I’ve reviewed offer discounts to Priority Wine Pass holders.  I’ve noted on the winery listing in the “Wineries” section of this website which ones take the Priority Wine Pass and what discounts they offer.  In other words, the Priority Wine Pass can save you money even if you never leave the area.
Now back to the gift issue.  Valentine’s Day is coming soon, and if you have someone special in your life that is a complete pain in the ass when it comes to buying gifts for, such as yours truly, who really loves visiting wineries, maybe you should consider a Priority Wine Pass.  Of course, it would also save a lot if you are planning on giving someone a romantic wine tour, in which case you buy the pass for yourself.  Actually, that sounds like a much better idea.  No wonder I’m so hard to buy for….
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    Jim Treglio

    retired physicist and wine lover

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