Maurice Car'rie

Maurice Car'rie reminded me of Knotts Berry Farm.

They have all this crap all over the place. Jam, jellies, chocolate, gold panning supplies. Oh yes they are big fans of the color pink.

Maurice Car'rie is the only winery in Temecula that doesn't charge for tasting. The reason from my perspective is that their wines are nothing special. We tasted the whole list of wines and despite the fact that all were good, nothing really stood out. The fact that the woman that served us was complaining that she wanted to go on a break and that she hoped another tourist bus was not pulling up just added to the ambiance. She was kind enough to offer us a reserve cabernet that was not on the list but when I asked her what the difference was she said that it was grown in a different place (inside joke for wine tasting fans). The one bright spot is their Pineapple Champagne which is not on the tasting list but I asked to taste it anyway. There is no distinct pineapple flavor or aroma but this sparkling wine was quite refreshing. The older lady who helped us after the break woman took her break in the middle of our tasting mumbled something about how we were supposed to taste the whites first so she doesn't have to use another glass but poured us the sample anyway.

Lets put this into perspective.

Nina and I buy one taste at each winery and share it. They pour so much that even after we taste the wine we dump half of the sample. So even though every other couple didn't share a glass this woman was bitching about our choice of sampling champagne after tasting all the other wines. We would have been ok with rinsing out the glass we had used but there were no pitchers on the bar to rinse out the glass with. There were sinks that this woman could use to rinse out the glass and we would have been fine. Yet she took the road to complain to the customer.

When I went to the Maurice Car'rie Website to reference this post the site crashed my browser.

We bought the champagne.