The Evening Land & Vinyard

My friends and I tried Evening Land on a fluke. It was a drizzly day at the wine ghetto and we wanted to hit one more room before heading to Los Olivos to pick up wine club shipments and we were told we should try Evening Land. It isn’t always open but it was that day we were told so why not take a chance while we could?
The wines are unique for this area as they use grapes from France and Oregon as well as locally grown grapes. This is definitely an interesting aspect that really makes their wines stand out. It’s kind of fun to compare and contrast the different chardonnays and pinot noirs and how different the region from which the grapes came makes for totally different wines. Both their reds and whites are solid — good, definitely drinkable but not out-​of-​this-​world amazing. But for the prices (about $ 25/​bottle), it’s actually very good wine.
The tasting fee was pretty standard at $ 10 and the woman working in the tasting room was friendly, jovial and knowledgeable about the wines. there’s nothing worse than tasting with someone who doesn’t really know anything about what they’re pouring so that really is something of note.
I absolutely loved the industrial space with a gorgeous giant red chandelier and communal table to accent the tasting room. The only thing I’d say is it was damn quiet — a little music tends to encourage people to actually speak to one another and loosen up since they aren’t afraid of having everyone else in the room shoot them glances like they broke the cone of silence in their local library. Plus is would make that lovely communal table seem much more inviting, because who wants to sit next to a bunch of strangers in awkward silence?
Will I return to Evening Lands? I wouldn’t go out of my way to get there but I would absolutely return next time I find myself in the wine ghetto.