California Wine Line

I hadn’t been on a wine tour in many years, so I decided to engage California Wine Line to take some potential clients on an adventure. I had heard about California Wine Line from a friend who had taken a tour with them. I was short on time and Ryan impressed me with his knowledge of wine and the white glove service that he offered. There were 6 of us so Ryan arranged for our pick up in a super clean private limousine. Ryan had arranged 3 tours in Orange County and dinner afterwards. The driver was personable and social knew her route making it easy drop ofsf and pick ups. Each winery was ready for our party due to Ryan’s efficient pre-​planning. We were introduced to some wines that we’d never thought of trying and they were great! Ryan was awesome and my clients were impressed by his thoughtfulness. I’m convinced that this experience left an indelible positive impression on these folks and 10 months later we are all still in contact, thanks to Ryan.

Now I’ve been on many tours here to Temecula wine country before because of the close proximity to San Diego County.
As I was looking for different experiences I ran across California Wine Line. It seemed pretty exclusive so my wife and I decided to give it a shot!
Our tour guide was pretty cool I guess, definitely extraordinary personality and seemed to be close with the wineries and owners or managers.
With that said, the wineries he chose were bland and didn’t match our palette; even though he asked us what kind of wine we liked before the beginning of the tour. The info he offered seemed too copy-​and-​paste for me.
Also after reviewing them on Unilocal to post about my experience I realized that this company must be new because they only have 4 reviews… within a 1 day PERIOD! So unless Ryan has clones of himself he’s done 5 tours in 2 days.
Seems likely that he had his friends post awesome reviews about him. Oh well…
It’s always nice to get away from the kids from time to time but I would DEFINITELY recommend a different tour.

I scheduled a tour for 10 of my girls just to do something different. We aren’t the serious wine-​is but I did want us to have a personal expierence and after doing my research I found this company as being the only one that offers a personal tour guide.
At first, didn’t know if Ryan could handle a large group of crazy girls but he shows us such a good time and Ryan was truly a delightful host.
We visited Leoness, Wilson Creek and Ponte. At each winery we never went to a public tasting room with large crowds and on a Saturday in Temecula I found that pretty impressive to do. I bought wine at both Leoness and Ponte.
It ended up costing us just over $ 100 bucks each with cake with our own limousine.
What was best about this expierence? I just called and everything was scheduled and done. I did t have to stress about planning our girls day out… Which being an event planner I always get stuck with the task. Thanks Ryan and we will see you for an OC tour soon!