Facelli Winery

What a great family run winery! The wine was amazing and the history learned about the wine and the family who does it was even better! Highly recommend and eagerly anticipating my next visit!

This place is GREAT. The wine is excellent, people wonderful… the only reason it isn’t getting 5 stars from me is because I do love some winery-​type ambiance and this is run out of the warehouse district and a little room/​office. But if you aren’t going for the wine, first and foremost, get out of my way! We bought more bottles of wine here than any other place we visited. Just wonderful!

Facelli is a little tough to find, and the exterior and interior won’t wow you, but it is definitely one of the musts in Woodinville for me. This is a family run establishment, and if the winemaker happens to be the pourer, you’re in for some great conversation throughout your pours. The wine itself is quality, and you’ll be hard pressed not to come home with a bottle. Definitely worth a stop

Fantastic wine at reasonable prices.
Chatting with the winemaker (Lou Facelli) while working your way through a flight is a real treat.
You should go.

Each time we’ve visited Facelli, we’ve been greeted as though we were friends. The staff are great… but of course its always been the family staffing the tasting room.
The wine is OK. I don’t seem to find something that «blows me away»…but they’re OK… and I can see why so many people do enjoy them.
The tasting room is quite small and simple but inviting. The family is great, and the price point is fair. Go and try…

Lou Facelli makes some of the best Cab anywhere and he is a cool guy. Love that this is a family business… I have been to many a fancy tasting room with bad wine and i like that he focuses on the quality of the wine and not the room or grounds to taste the wine. Lou is the REAL deal!

Wonderful wine, great staff, very lacking facilities but a must-​visit.

a 5 $ tasting fee, an extensive explanation of what goes in to the making of each wine, happily answering ever question from guest and having your bottles of wine signed by the wine maker Lou Facelli makes for such a personal and memorable day that you will want to go back as soon as possible.
I am looking forward to sharing these wines with friends and do not miss
the 2007 Syrah — Late Harvest — Bacchus Vineyard, it is only available through the winery and the first of this kind of Syrah to be produced in Washington state, a true delight!
one factor of note is that the tasting space is small and standing only but if you are in need of a seat all you have to do is ask and Lou, his wife or daughter will provide one for you. This family does every thing with a smile and show obvious passion for their wines, I doubt they really consider what they do «work».

Let me preface this review by stating that coming across a single person who is wholly devoted to their passion and it shows in their work — is a rare gem. Now coming across an entire family that feels the same way? Fantastic!
I’ve loved each and every one of my visits to this little pseudo winery tasting room tucked in the back of a warehouse district. The winery is run solely by members of the Facelli family and watching them intermingle during tastings is an enjoyably spectacle.
Five George Washington’s will get you a tasting that can later be used towards the purchase of a bottle. And when the price of each bottle is never more than $ 25, it helps relieve the guilt that purchasing a not-​so-​necessary bottle of wine brings.
Of all the wines they produce, I’d say the Barbera makes for a fantastic dinner pairing. (This coming from someone who is still having trouble falling in love with red wines.) The Pescaia white table wine is a great all-​around white for multiple uses and the Late Harvest Riesling is wonderful for after dinner duty. Not ridiculously sweet, but just right.
Whenever I find my way out in the Woodinville area, I’ll come up with some excuse to stop by and try some wine. The wine is great and the people selling it are even better.

One of my absolute favorites! This place is tucked away in the back of an industrial park (look for the A-​board signs) but don’t let the setting fool you. Lou Facelli makes wine in a very traditional manner and is mainly a one grape per wine kind of guy– very few blends are produced. So, when you are trying a cabernet sauvignon it is 100% cab — and you know it. The dedication to the varietal character of each of his wines is evident. The tasting room is small and intimate, and most likely Lou will be there and he is quite a character and very passionate about his wines. This is a family run business, by the way. Small, low key, but consistently producing outstanding wines.
The prices of the wines are really great, too. Considering the last time I went there a couple weeks ago, we had stopped at a close by winery before Facelli’s where they charged us $ 10 for tasting and the wines were terrible, but the tasting room sure looked cool, and I noticed the prices of the wines were around the $ 30 mark. At Facelli’s the prices were closer to the $ 20 — $ 25 mark for most of the wines. Really exceptional wines at an exceptional value!
If you are looking for some great wines, and don’t have to be bamboozeld (sp?) by the shiny sparkly things in a tasting room, and you want to talk to someone who actually knows something about the wines being poured, go to Facelli’s.
$ 5 tasting fee is right in line with everyone else in the area and the fee is credited to your purchase if you buy a bottle.

This is hands down our favorite winery. It feels like our own little secret since it’s in an office park and has weird hours. The Facelli family is so nice and helpful and it is really nice to be able to actually talk to the winemaker. I grew up in wine country, so I am a bit of a snob about these things, but I am crazy about every wine of theirs I have ever tasted. I would say it is a fun stop when u are out biking, but then you could never get all the bottles home!

True, it’s a small tasting room. But the wine is so very tasty! I have been a fan of the Lemberger since I first visited their tasting room. I love that it’s a family-​run business. Everyone is so personable. And you get the full spectrum… a nice, refreshing white, a fun red blend, a fantastic red, and a dessert wine of your choice. It’s a perfect potpourri for wine-​lovers.

Not a bad place at all. Not a winery per se, just a tasting counter in a warehouse. However, the wines were decent, family run with good service, and Mr. Facelli likes to sign your bottles. A collectors item!
I got some decent table wine for $ 18 or so… I typically don’t go for blends unless it is a Meritage or Cab Franc, but this was pretty good for casual drinking with a light meal.

Of all the wineries we have visited lately, this was our favorite! The tasting room is really small and was pretty packed when we arrived, but it’s totally worth the few minutes of waiting to get to the counter. You get decently sized tastings for $ 5– which is refundable with purchase. The wine is really great– the 05 syrah was yuuummmmm, and the late-​harvest syrah was really nice. The Facelli family are there, which is really cool– it’s fun to talk to the actual winemaker while you’re tasting. And they’re some of the nicest people you’d ever want to meet. =) We bought a couple bottles and Lou signed them for us– cool! And we finished that syrah by the next afternoon– looks like we’re going back for more! =)

Not bad, I think the atmosphere more than anything was not great, it’s such a small office that you feel obligated to taste and/​or buy the wine. A few of the wines were decent but very small tastings for $ 5.

Quite nice wine (2003 Syrah was lovely) but dude Lou Facelli likes to hear himself talk and likes to sign bottles.
$ 5 for 4 quite small tastes/

Certainly don’t go for the atmosphere, mainly b/​c it might as well be an office complex selling plastic widgets.
Go for the wine b/​c the Facellis do make a nice wine and a nice impression on their guests. $ 5 tasting fee and free bottle signing from Lou himself, if he’s around.

Lou Facelli and his family run the entire Facelli Winery themselves, and he and his daughter were in the small, unpretentious tasting room when we visited. They are very enthusiastic about their wines and proud of them — and they should be! I loved every single wine I tasted at Facelli, and I got really excited when I saw Barbera on their list since it’s my favorite varietal. Like Mitzie said, they nailed it. I also really liked their late harvest Riesling, which was honeyed and smooth but not too sweet. Perfect for dessert with some mild cheese.
I bought a Barbera and Lou signed it for me. Their signed bottles would make great gifts, but you do have to buy them direct from them which is not bad at all since you’ll get to visit the Facellis. Or you can get it on their website, but that wouldn’t be nearly as fun. They made me think of that saying, if you pick a job you love, you’ll never have to work a day in your life. Don’t miss Facelli on your Woodinville wine tour.

An extremely small tasting room in an industrial warehouse park in Woodinville. Look for the signs and head to the back of the park there you’ll find this hidden gem of a tasting room. The place it family run so when going in to taste you’ll meet the family and they love their wine and are extremely proud of it as well and are some of the friendliest people around. If Lou Facelli is around he’ll sign any bottle you buy and answer any questions you might have about him or his wines.
They just recently released a 2005 Barbera, a first time for them, and for their price point ($ 23) I think they nailed it. They also have a nice late harvest Syrah it’s sexy in color sweet berry-​licouse in taste and kind of port-​like but not. This with a piece of dark chocolate is heaven really it is.

An absolutely wonderful small local winery that sells about 80% of its stuff right out of the winery itself — translation if you want their wine you gotta go to the winery. That said, they do offer price breaks if you buy cases and they have some great wines. My personal favorites include the Late Harvest Syrah, Merlot, Cab, and I’ve heard the lemburger is great but they always seem to sell out of that quickly (guess it must be good).
Definitely a must do if you’re up in woodinville checking out Cheteau Ste. Michelle or Columbia winery.