{"id":39,"date":"2015-02-01T21:02:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T21:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2015-12-23T21:19:27","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T21:19:27","slug":"taking-or-not-taking-your-kids-to-wine-tasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Taking or not taking your kids to wine tasting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Standing at a bar in a tasting room with children around?\u00a0\u00a0 Is it any different than standing at your favorite local bar having a glass of wine with children around?<\/p>\n

Children and bars are not a good fit.\u00a0 However, there are some wineries that are kid-friendly and this will be the subject of another blog post.\u00a0\u00a0 But let\u2019s put it this way: here you are in Wine Country standing at a bar listening to the winery employee describing the wine that is being served. \u00a0Just as you\u2019re going to taste you suddenly hear children screaming or crying.\u00a0 Believe us, we have experienced this exact scenario and it\u2019s very unpleasant.\u00a0 It ruins the experience of going wine tasting.\u00a0 Wine tasting is for adults, period.<\/p>\n

We had a particularly unpleasant experience at Artesa Vineyards and Winery in Carneros.\u00a0 We had been there a few times before and we loved the place, particularly the view of the valley and the architecture of the winery, both of which are spectacular. Artesa has redesigned the tasting room, which is very large, and put some little tables and chairs (though it now looks more like a bar than a tasting room).\u00a0 The day we went it was crowded, extremely noisy and we were trying to make our way to the bar to get some wine to taste.\u00a0 Besides having a problem getting the attention of the staff to taste some wine, there were little kids crawling on the floor around us. \u00a0Others were running around while their parents were drinking, not paying attention to the children.\u00a0 We actually had to ask one mother to stop her toddler from crawling between our legs!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The winery personnel were not managing the crowd; those at the bar were so busy pouring wine that they had no time to talk about the wine they were pouring.\u00a0 So between the kids and the servers, it ended up as two bad experiences. It spoiled the entire visit for us.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s another example.\u00a0 Once we were in Paso Robles in Central Coast and we are driving in front of Grey Wolf Cellars. It looks more like a private house than a winery. Just from curiosity we stopped to see what they had to offer.\u00a0 The tiny tasting room was full of beautiful antiques.\u00a0 Then a couple with their two children came in.\u00a0 The kids began to touch everything they could reach and trying to play with a guitar that was displayed there.\u00a0 The woman who was pouring wine was paying more attention to the kids than the customers in front of her.\u00a0 She stepped out of the bar to stop the children touching the antiques.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t surprising that the parents did not see it, because they were busy tasting wine and not paying attention to what their children were doing.\u00a0 Tasting rooms are for adults, not for children.<\/p>\n

All wineries have gift shops. Many sell fragile merchandise such as glasses or chinaware. So imagine kids playing around while their parents are tasting wine.\u00a0 Many times we\u2019ve experienced children running around in the tasting rooms and gift shops like it was a Toys \u2018R\u2019 Us.<\/p>\n

So please, if you absolutely want to take your kids in Wine Country, make a few phone calls beforehand to make sure that the winery you want to visit is kid-friendly.\u00a0 Or read our upcoming post on the subject!<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Standing at a bar in a tasting room with children around?\u00a0\u00a0 Is it any different than standing at your favorite local bar having a glass of wine with children around? Children and bars are not a good fit.\u00a0 However, there are some wineries that are kid-friendly and this will be the subject of another blog … Continue reading Taking or not taking your kids to wine tasting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}