Lodi Wine Visitor Center, the best place for one-stop-shopping the finest wines grown in Lodi.
Just seven more days of Christmas shopping. There is plenty of time if you are living in or within striking distance of Lodi wine country to pick up top-of-the-line bottlings from the local wineries.
Another great one-stop-shopping idea: The Lodi Wine Visitor Center, located at the corner of W. Turner and Lower Sacramento Roads (on the same site as Wine & Roses Hotel). The original idea of the Lodi Wine Visitor Center when first established by Lodi Winegrape Commission in the late 1990s was to provide a tasting room and retail outlet for wineries and brands that do not have tasting rooms.
Today, the Lodi Wine Visitor Center performs the same function, while offering a wide assortment of carefully curated wines (i.e., wines that exemplify “Lodi” on a sensory level) from the local wineries.
Downtown Lodi in December. visitlodi.com.
This is particularly important because many of Lodi’s finest or artisanal style wines are now produced in wineries located outside of Lodi. Top brands falling in this category include Sandlands Wines, Turley Wine Cellars, Haarmeyer Wine Cellars, Lorenza Wine, Marchelle Wines, Monte Rio Cellars, and at least a dozen more at any given time (see our recent post, Thou shalt covet thy neighbor’s wines—handcraft brands flock to Lodi for distinctive fruit).
If you are going to give wine as a gift, it may as well be wines that the wineries themselves consider to be
