Comments on: Biltmore Estate Winery http://www.wine-girl.net/2006/05/biltmore_estate-2.html Exploring Cincinnati and the world of wine, one bottle at a time Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:47:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: coupon http://www.wine-girl.net/2006/05/biltmore_estate-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-24770 coupon Sun, 05 Jun 2011 09:54:55 +0000 http://michellelentz.net/wine/2006/05/biltmore-estate-winery.html#comment-24770 Important?…

Is this really the latest?…

]]> By: Sean http://www.wine-girl.net/2006/05/biltmore_estate-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-607 Sean Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:52:34 +0000 http://michellelentz.net/wine/2006/05/biltmore-estate-winery.html#comment-607 The price of admissions to this place is gloriously overpriced! $60 during the busy holiday season (of when I and a guest attended) and $35 during the least busy working season. The house is beautiful and amazing but if I built a house and charged people on average $45 per day visit throughout the year to tour it, I’m quite sure I can make it more pleasing with at least one roller coaster to boot plus with the ability for the guests to use the pool! On a serious note, maybe the fact that I’m from America’s playground of Orlando, Florida makes me feel this is a little overpriced to just walk around a richly historic house, which is pretty much all you can do unless you pay more for the other services they provide. Arrive early or expect to wait long. After the purchase of tickets we waited three hours touring the outside of the estate before we were allowed in. On the same day, we visited Chimney Rock Park, and for flat land dwellers, like us Floridians, this place was spectacularly amazing and was much more worthwhile with nature’s majestic beauty, thrills of vertigo, and the general low admission of $17 per person per day to tour (walk around). In my two-cents, nature’s richness beats man’s richness, but maybe this is just an argument between public vs. private.

]]> By: James http://www.wine-girl.net/2006/05/biltmore_estate-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-606 James Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:20:42 +0000 http://michellelentz.net/wine/2006/05/biltmore-estate-winery.html#comment-606 “The display of ostentatious wealth is not entertaining to me.”
Wow.

]]> By: stephanie http://www.wine-girl.net/2006/05/biltmore_estate-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-605 stephanie Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:10:44 +0000 http://michellelentz.net/wine/2006/05/biltmore-estate-winery.html#comment-605 I am looking for a label with fireworks on it.

]]> By: stephanie http://www.wine-girl.net/2006/05/biltmore_estate-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-604 stephanie Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:10:42 +0000 http://michellelentz.net/wine/2006/05/biltmore-estate-winery.html#comment-604 I am looking for a label with fireworks on it.

]]> By: Marlayna http://www.wine-girl.net/2006/05/biltmore_estate-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-603 Marlayna Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:36:05 +0000 http://michellelentz.net/wine/2006/05/biltmore-estate-winery.html#comment-603 Helo there…
If you’ve had a bad bottle of the wines I agree with the commentor above. Do give the Biltmore Estate another try. I work in the winery myself and the wines are loved… you can get a bad bottle anywhere and the estate itself isnt the only reason our wines sell.
However some people just dont like wine…

]]> By: Tony Regan http://www.wine-girl.net/2006/05/biltmore_estate-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-602 Tony Regan Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:46:44 +0000 http://michellelentz.net/wine/2006/05/biltmore-estate-winery.html#comment-602 I live about an hour away from Biltmore and have visited it several times. It is truly magnificent to say the least. The wines I’ve had from there have been really good. I was very impressed to have quality wine from this region. I strongly suggest to anyone who claims they’ve had a bad bottle of Biltmore wine to give them another chance. Try a different type, it’s well worth it!

]]> By: JOhn http://www.wine-girl.net/2006/05/biltmore_estate-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-601 JOhn Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:01:51 +0000 http://michellelentz.net/wine/2006/05/biltmore-estate-winery.html#comment-601 Blitmore sounds beautiful in the picture above and you have added more beauty to it by writing such a fine blog about it. Thanks anyway.

]]> By: j.thomas http://www.wine-girl.net/2006/05/biltmore_estate-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-600 j.thomas Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:24:31 +0000 http://michellelentz.net/wine/2006/05/biltmore-estate-winery.html#comment-600 Was at BEW Aug. 05 and saw no evidence of grapes, vineyards or wine making. The production floor equipment was covered in dust and not a soul to be seen anywhere. The only tour we got was via our hushpuppies going up an down some steps to the tasting room. They were very generous and the lady working our bar was very glad to have us ask questions and ask what her preferences were and we tried them which seemed to please her even more. We got extra pours and tasted more than 8 wines. Their(?) sparkling wines were very good and paying $24 in the restaurant for a $12 retail bottle is the norm just about anywhere we go and we have been all over the world. I still don’t believe the wine is made there and saw nothing to prove otherwise. Their reds are not good and we aren’t much on whites except the occassional chard and the sparkling wines. The tour and tasting is free so not much to criticize there and we actually had a ball. I just about forgot that we went into the reserve room and paid for some sparkling wine pours, highly recommended. The restaurants are VERY hard to get reservations for any time resembling lunch or dinner and the whole Estate and grounds are wildly popular for some reason. Worth going to once I guess. I have never set foot in the “house” in 47 years and probably never will. The display of ostentatious wealth is not entertaining to me.

]]> By: Shel http://www.wine-girl.net/2006/05/biltmore_estate-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-599 Shel Tue, 06 Jun 2006 21:31:47 +0000 http://michellelentz.net/wine/2006/05/biltmore-estate-winery.html#comment-599 You know, we tried 3 different Cab Sauvs. The first one, the low-end, was pretty awful. They got progressively better and based on value for price, I believe we picked up the mid-level one. We did have a barrel tasting of a Cab Sauv and it was pretty good.
Of course, I say this now, but we thought the Syrah was good when we tasted it and were terribly disappointed when we got it home. Atmosphere (as in, gorgeous castle in the background) definitely helps sell their wines.

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