Twisted Barrel Winery
Hours
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: Closed
Thursday: 12:00 – 5:00 PM
Friday: 12:00 – 5:00 PM
Saturday: 12:00 – 5:00 PM
Sunday: 12:00 – 5:00 PM
Overview
Twisted Barrel Winery offers a new take on an old art. As one of Lodi’s boutique-style wineries, the family business is creating small lot, quality wines that specialize in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese varietals.
The winery combines family, friendship and an open door policy to raise the bar and create an all inclusive tasting experience for all to enjoy. Extra touches come into play in the tasting room – tasty tidbits, music and no-pressure-vibe.
They invite you to visit and see how they do things...Twisted Barrel style!
Tasting Fee: $10, waived with purchase of a bottle
Amenities
- Free Parking
- Mastercard
- Visa
- Wine and Beer
Denise and her husband Marc really have a great place in Lodi. I joined their wine club without hesitation, given the quality of wine, service, and the family atmosphere of their tatsing room. Despite living in Arizona, I will definitely be scheduling some more regular trips to Sacramento/Lodi to pick up my bundles of happiness from time to time. I really felt welcomed in their tasting room, which is one of the most unique I have seen among hundreds of others. It feels so much like a comfortable gathering place than a wine tasting room. That, in itself, is hard to describe, and it is why it is incumbent upon you to give them a visit. Bottles are priced incredibly well, given that their son, Brock, has done such an amazing job with crafting these wines to perfection. These are mid-$25 wines in price that drink with a $60 taste! Be sure to check out their Italian less-common varietals, as they surely will not disappoint. I tasted the 100% 2024 Petit Verdot (my personal favorite varietal that rarely gets bottled by itself), and I was impressed. I am going to cellar that for a few more years (2029), however, so those fruit-forward notes will become a little less prominent to let that smooth and refined texture develop. That is going to be an awesome bottle in a few years! On the other hand, there is that immediate drinkability in the others I tried. The teroldego, primativo, and nero d'avola are also 2024 bottlings that were fantastic right away. I am going to do a longer decant on those when I get them home, but even in the tasting room, they were really good. So give these folks a try, and I'm sure you won't be disappointed. Thank you, Denise, for such a wonderful experience of hospitality and great wine to enjoy among new friends!
Just visited this lovely winery! The staff is incredibly kind and the tasting room is so cosy! I had a great experience tasting their great wines. Thank you so much for having me!
My husband and I visited the Twisted Barrel Winery last week. We walked into a very small space which we thought was the tasting room. We were welcomed in by Denise, who explained their tasting atmosphere. We were invited to go into their tasting room, which was a very warm inviting area, which felt very homie. At that time we met Mark who is the father of the winemaker, extremely friendly, wanted us to be comfortable and get us started with our wine tasting and offered a fresh array of popcorn. Then we were greeted by the winemaker‘s wife, who was professional , and very kind, showing us the wine tasting menus explaining the differences of the wines and the wine menus. We helped ourselves to the popcorn and she helped us work through the menu and we ordered our wine tasting. The wine tasting was enjoyable sitting in a homie atmosphere however, surrounded by wine barrels. We asked a lot of questions and she was very kind and answered as many as she was able and informed us that her husband would be coming along soon and that he was the wine maker and would be able to answer all of our questions. The winemaker Brock came in and introduced himself and answered all the questions. We were very proud for him because he worked very hard to get where he is. He’s very dedicated to the success of the Winery. He has built his business on the friendships of other wineries, and the local grape growers. In short, it’s a family owned winery, a boutique winery with some unique wines, which made it fun. The tasting room was very inviting and warm. The people that work there seemed to be family and made you feel at home. What I found interesting was they had a couple fees besides the tasting fee, tip, taxes and there was a Wine Grape Commission fee and a California bottling fee. Both minimal but still different only because I had never been charged those fees before in Lodi.
My husband and I visited the Twisted Barrel Winery last week. We walked into a very small space which we thought was the tasting room. We were welcomed in by Denise, who explained their tasting atmosphere. We were invited to go into their tasting room, which was a very warm inviting area, which felt very homie. At that time we met Mark who is the father of the winemaker, extremely friendly, wanted us to be comfortable and get us started with our wine tasting and offered a fresh array of popcorn. Then we were greeted by the winemaker‘s wife, who was professional , and very kind, showing us the wine tasting menus explaining the differences of the wines and the wine menus. We helped ourselves to the popcorn and she helped us work through the menu and we ordered our wine tasting. The wine tasting was enjoyable sitting in a homie atmosphere however, surrounded by wine barrels. We asked a lot of questions and she was very kind and answered as many as she was able and informed us that her husband would be coming along soon and that he was the wine maker and would be able to answer all of our questions. The winemaker Brock came in and introduced himself and answered all the questions. We were very proud for him because he worked very hard to get where he is. He’s very dedicated to the success of the Winery. He has built his business on the friendships of other wineries, and the local grape growers. In short, it’s a family owned winery, a boutique winery with some unique wines, which made it fun. The tasting room was very inviting and warm. The people that work there seemed to be family and made you feel at home. What I found interesting was they had a couple fees besides the tasting fee, tip, taxes and there was a Wine Grape Commission fee and a California bottling fee. Both minimal but still different only because I had never been charged those fees before in Lodi.
My husband and I visited the Twisted Barrel Winery last week. We walked into a very small space which we thought was the tasting room. We were welcomed in by Denise, who explained their tasting atmosphere. We were invited to go into their tasting room, which was a very warm inviting area, which felt very homie. At that time we met Mark who is the father of the winemaker, extremely friendly, wanted us to be comfortable and get us started with our wine tasting and offered a fresh array of popcorn. Then we were greeted by the winemaker‘s wife, who was professional , and very kind, showing us the wine tasting menus explaining the differences of the wines and the wine menus. We helped ourselves to the popcorn and she helped us work through the menu and we ordered our wine tasting. The wine tasting was enjoyable sitting in a homie atmosphere however, surrounded by wine barrels. We asked a lot of questions and she was very kind and answered as many as she was able and informed us that her husband would be coming along soon and that he was the wine maker and would be able to answer all of our questions. The winemaker Brock came in and introduced himself and answered all the questions. We were very proud for him because he worked very hard to get where he is. He’s very dedicated to the success of the Winery. He has built his business on the friendships of other wineries, and the local grape growers. In short, it’s a family owned winery, a boutique winery with some unique wines, which made it fun. The tasting room was very inviting and warm. The people that work there seemed to be family and made you feel at home. What I found interesting was they had a couple fees besides the tasting fee, tip, taxes and there was a Wine Grape Commission fee and a California bottling fee. Both minimal but still different only because I had never been charged those fees before in Lodi.
