Okay, I do need to preface this by saying we were on a VIP Private tour... Danielle was phenomenal and full of great information, as we moved from the vineyard to the barrel room. The tour was informative and just the right amount of time and quite pleasant. The highlight was tasting in a private room that was filled with history and of course, some really great wines. I had not had a lot of the wines we tasted and was very impressed. And yes, the Foley Wine Club and customer program is pretty cool... Will definitely be visiting some of their other properties! read more

was there over the weekend. i had a blast. they had a great selection of white wines. i normally prefer reds, but found myself enjoying a lot of the whites at the tasting bar. the servers were really down to earth and friendly. you won't find any wine snobs. swoosh it, lap it, sip it, gargle it, sniff it... everything goes without prejudice. don't forget the free pretzel tables with assortments of dips. all this and you get a souvenir glass. just grab that sucker and go to the curtis vineyard next door and get free samples. i'm serious. i recommend the tour if you're like me and know nothing about wine. ps: sorry i've been MIA for awhile. will promise to drop my two cents more often. :P read more

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Great tasting room, great picnic area, great view, and great wine! Firestone is pretty easy to find, and there is plenty of parking. There are tables set up for wonderful views to picnic on sunny days (which are common in Los Olivos). The winery is dog-friendly, both inside the tasting room and outside. The server we had the last time we were there was SUPER friendly, probably the best one I've had. Sometimes they can be so stuck-up, but she was great! We got our tastings free because our friends are members, but I'd definitely pay for a tasting in the future. read more

3.5 stars....Firestone has a spacious tasting room and offers tours 3 times daily. We missed the tour, but we did lounge in the grassy garden area out front underneath the trees. There was a breeze and it was really a nice quiet breath of fresh air. I took my shoes off and wiggled my toes in the grass and let the warm afternoon breeze ease me into the first day of our vacation! We did the tasting for $10 and 6 tastes. For an extra $2 you can keep the glass. The staff seemed knowledgeable (but I'm not so I'm probably not the best judge). We weren't overly impressed by the wines, though I did find one that I liked well enough to buy a bottle. Oh and apparently this vineyard is no longer owned by the Firestone family. I overhead one of the staff answering questions of another patron. I wouldn't go back here to taste, but I would go back for a nice picnic. read more

Firestone Vineyard - Wine Tasting Room Near Me - Los Olivos, California

Ick. So much about what I love about the Solvang / Santa Ynez wine country is the smaller vineyards, lower yields, and true care about the quality of the wines. And those who are large enough to have tasting rooms really want to share their love for the grape and its juice with the guests tasting their wares, and are experts in what they do. Firestone is the opposite. It's a huge conglomerate, with inexperienced staff who hardly know the difference between red and white, and can only read the back of the label if you dare to ask any questions about the wine that you payed dearly to taste ($10, and they use stoppers). On the up side - it's a beautiful property, and the tasting room has large windows that open up to look out onto their vineyards. And the tasting room itself is very well set up, warm and inviting. And, of course, the wine. It's just not up to par compared to so many others in the nearby area. They used to somehow be connected with Curtis Winery around the corner, and they are SO much better. They have severed such ties, and I would recommend skipping Firestone and heading straight over to Curtis if you are on the road. read more

This is a big busy tasting room not far off from the 101, making it a nice place to stop while on a road trip. There is a nice garden for picnicking. Lots of wood dominate the tasting room, and there are several counters where the tastings are poured. There are usually 2 flights, a regular and a premium, $10-15. Nice, if not mind-blowing wines are made here. I usually find there is a case deal going on that represent excellent value. I picked up a case of their 2011 Sauv. Blanc and their 2010 Merlot for $99 each. The winery was sold by the Firestone family some time ago to the Foley wine group. If you are tempted, go ahead and join the wine club. You'll get great discounts and free tasting not just here, but at every Foley group winery read more

Decent place. This is a bigger wine vineyard because I see their labels on supermarket shelves alot so I thought we should check it out. Their tour wasn't starting for another 45 minutes so we didn't wait around for it. Got a chance to try out their wines though. Our host was pretty friendly. The tasting area is a designed like a round bar with people sitting all around it and the pourers walking around pouring and talking about the wine. I think it was $11 or so for the wine tasting. read more

Tiny pours. Dark tasting room. Good wine. Lawn games. Great view. read more

The experience at Firestone is fairly typical of larger wineries. Large tour groups arrive and descend upon the tasting bars, while the young, cute "sommeliers" try to engage you with tales of their personal life. Not surprisingly, the wines are consistent and commercial. There are three tours a day, and our tour lasted about 30 minutes. The guide told us several scenes from Sideways were filmed in the cask room. Also, the winery was sold to the Foley group about 6 months ago and is no longer owned by the Firestone family. I like starting off a wine trip at a commercial winery to get my taste buds going and put me in the 'mood'. Firestone did not disappoint. $10 for the tasting and includes a free wineglass. read more

My girls and I were on the hunt for Andrew Firestone, contestant on The Bachelor (don't know the season, never actually watched show). Even with his cocked eye, he's still a cutie. We embarked on a tour, after being convinced to join their Wine Club. How could I resist a free tasting fee, discount on merchandise, and the option to be billed later? Our tour guide seemed pretty knowledgeable and he had jokes too. At the end of the tour, we ended up seeing Andrew! In one-dimensional form. I'm no wine expert. I'm usually more of a guzzler than a sipper. There's a picnic area for you to enjoy your newly bought wine & any other snackies that you may have brought. $10 tasting feee for about 5 different wines. read more

I love day trips especially the ones that end in drunken silliness. Tips to make a wine tasting adventure a good one: 1) Fill up on gas before you get to the country roads 2) Bring a device with GPS capabilities better yet a GPS system in case there is no reception 3) Pack plenty of snacks and goodies for when the alcohol hits Our trip started with a simple question, how far is it to Santa Barbara? I looked at the range on my truck and saw 110. Hmm 50 miles you say? OK that should be enough for a round trip...haha how wrong was I because it was another 20 miles to the wineries. By the time we got deep in the country roads, gas was running out and my navigator was freakin' out thinking we had passed our first destination and asking me to double back while in fact we had another 10 miles to go. *rolls eyes* I pulled out the map program on the iPhone and verified that in fact we had about 10 miles to go and identified a nearby gas station where we filled up..whewww no more stress! On to the wine tasting! My first wine tasting experience was on a cruise to Hawaii so that gives you an idea of how much I know. The wine on the cruise was weak I remember it had a cheap Chianti on the list. This is my first wine tasting on land and it did not disappoint. I had never even set foot in a winery so this was a great experience. We had the higher end wines so that was $15 and skipped the souvenir glass. All the wines tasted good but 2 notable ones were the Late Harvest Riesling and the Firestone Syrah. I bought a bottle of each for about $50 total. The Riesling is really sweet even for a desert wine. I basically sip it very slowly to enjoy the flavor. The smell of that wine is so sweet and pleasing like candy. The syrah is easily my favorite affordable red wine of the day. The flavor is better than merlot and not as strong as cabernet sauvignon. We didn't do the tour but there were groups of happy people coming in and out of the tasting room. We did however visit the room with the large barrels of wine. One day I have to get a full tour of one of these fine wineries. After stimulating our senese of touch, sight, smell, taste, and hearing over and over again, we casually scurried next door to Curtis wineries... read more

Came by here for their wine tasting with some friends. This wine tasting area is pretty spacious and there were a lot of counter space for people to hang out. The wine tasting was $10 or $15 per person (depending on which wine list you chose). The person helping us here was a bit rushed; she didn't explain anything about the wines. Nor did she offer to let us purchase our wine glass for $2 each. read more

I love how the wine tasting area is organized. It's circular but the bar areas are split up into several blocks that give different parties their own space. The wine selection is decent enough, but I found myself disliking more of the choices than liking. Loved the Riesling. Loved the Ambassador. Everything else was meh. $10 for a mixed tasting; $15 for a red tasting. The tour was informative. Also came here for their First Fridays event at the beginning of July, which was fun, but the catering was awful. The ambiance was lovely though. read more

This is always on our list of wineries to stop at. The Cabernet Sauvigner 2009, Syrah 2008 (2007 from last years visit) always a good choice for me! This winery is always full of people & today they were having a wedding! Beautiful vineyard, great wines, beautiful weather what more could a new bride ask for! read more

This was the first stop on our 5 vineyard tour, and Linda our pourer kicked us off on the right direction. She was all smiles, knowledgeable, and super friendly. They were very dog friendly, the cab franc was delish! read more

I'm not giving it a higher star rating only because of my personal opinion of their wine. It's just not for me. I went in this past weekend because Firestone belongs to the Foley wine club. Their grounds are amazing, their location is amazing, and the overall vibe is just really cool. I would recommend trying to do one of their private lunch tastings that I saw people enjoying outside. It was a perfect Spring-ish day in early March, and it was just beautful outside. I thought that our host was excellent, I wish I could remember his name for sure but I wanna say Brian...? Anyway, excellent hosting, great conversation and just really made us feel welcome. I would never tell someone to steer clear based on my own wine preference, so take a drive out there and check out their beautiful winery! read more

We had an amazing time tasting today. Make sure to request Julian as your server he his fun and very knowledgeable about. We had a great experience!!! read more

Been a member over 20 years now always amazing people that work there. We had Christy for our pourer on 3-22-21 what an asset to your company! Truly a great experience! read more

I've visited numerous wineries, but Firestone is my #1. My friends and I paid for the 5 wine tastings for about $10 (if i remember correctly). All the wines were spectacular. I have never tasted anything else like Firestone wines. My favorite: Gewurtztraminer (try pronoucing it). A must visit! I can't wait to be introduced to an even better winery ... I'm waiting! read more

Firestone is another of my favorite wineries in the Santa Ynez. The drive over there alone is worth it. Especially after a rain! The rolling hills and trees are beautiful landscape for wine tasting, and the foley property offers a lovely view of the valley. The wines here are great. I love that they have a wide variety of varietals, and they are all done well. I always end up leaving with a bottle-- even when I don't intend to. Their price points are just too irresistible for the quality of wine. I definitely recommend stopping here-- both for the views and for the wine! You can also get a tour of the property if you're interested in learning about the wine making process and seeing the barrel room, etc. Their sister winery Lincourt is my #1 fave, so definitely stop there if you haven't already! read more

I took a wine tasting trip, few months back. We tried to follow the movie, Side way, which for me is more like a looser stories but.. I"m one looser myself, so that's what makes the story so real. Firestone is one of them, its a big brother of Curtis Vineyard, which if you pay $10 here, you take your wineglasses to Curtis, you'll get to taste there for free..... yes freeee.... But remember, the more you drink the wine, it starts to tease better and better .. and you end up buy them all... yub that's what happen to me. OK, first I have to admit that I'm not big on wine at all. Firestone wine taste pretty BAD to me too but what I like about it is the FREE TOUR that they take you to the Vineyard, talk about the grape they grow ed and how they harvest them .. its educational thing, I like. =) They take you into where they keep the wine, the diff rent kind of Oak they use, which French Oak seems to be the most expensive one and so on. I like the stuff they sell in the store, like bread stick, french dip, salad dressing more than the wine itself, so its interesting to me. Overall, its a fun experience, I have to bought one red wine, I didn't even know what kind i bought, because its not that impressive and I also bought a lot of dips. read more

Was there last November. Very enjoyable visit. Love the scenery, great views of the vineyards. Well staffed and able to handle crowds. I got great service from my pourer even when a tour group came in. Enjoyed the wines. The Gewurztraminer was good. They poured a Malbec that my wife really liked. They had an estate Bourdeaux style blend that I really liked, and then the pourer broke out a higher end reserve Bourdeaux style blend that was pretty awesome. Alot more variety from this winery than I expected. It was a pleasant surprise. I agree with De B's review. It's big and all that, but they do a nice job all the way around. The contrarian side of me wanted not to like it, but I was won over. Nice glass too! read more

Seriously, guys, gals,don't go here. I don't even want to waste time reviewing this place, but I thought I would help some poor guy figure something else out instead of going here for a romantic getaway. lol Wine sucks. Person explaining the wines sucked. Beatrice old zombie looking lady. She was nice though. Bless her soul. The guys bathroom was dirty and still had a turd in it. The wine tasting room wasn't too shabby, nice and clean. Seeing a bunch of grape vines was cool, too. Wine tasting was about $10 bucks for 7 oz's. I had a good buzz mixing wine. I thought a place this famous would serve cheese or at least available for purchase. For christ sake, I had to ask for crackers! The bachelor from the tv show, aka the owner, might impress chicks with his money and looks, but definitely not scoring points on the wine! Skip this winery, spare the embarasment of picking this place and head to more up the road! read more

If you rate this place at 5 stars, you need to go wine tasting more often. Price - $10 for 6 wines. If you want to take the glass home, its $2 extra. The wines were pretty mediocre. Syrah seemed watered down and even the reserve Merlot wasn't very impressive. Our pourer wasn't overly knowledgeable or all that engaging, but she may have been new. The tour guide was hilariously horrible. He really didn't know anything about wine making, but would mention what he didn't know which made it funny. Frankly, I think the winery is trying to still live off the Firestone brand which has diminished over the years. There are better places to visit in the area. read more

Firestone is probably the best value of a winery you could join. It's not the BEST wine ever, but it is consistently good from year to year and across varietals. There are lots of cute little spots to have a picnic after your tasting. Plus they allow dogs, which is awesome! We always have a great time whenever we're at Firestone :) read more

Firestone Vineyard - Wine Tasting Room Near Me - Los Olivos, California

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A must join! Steve is so knowledgeable and friendly! We stop by here every time we're in town. read more

Firestone Vineyard - Yummy - Wine Tasting Room Near Me - Los Olivos, California

Good Wine. But pretty poor hospitality. Could have been because it was a long weekend, but they certainly weren't running the tasting room for the enjoyment of their guests. read more

I came here for the weekend and LOVED IT! The atmosphere is great...it has just enough space to mingle with your friends yet it's not too big where the bathroom seems way too far. They have 2 tasting menus to choose from (1 mixed with whites and then an all red menu with their higher quality wines). The all red is $5 more (at $15) but well worth it. Here are the pros and cons: PRO: -they also have olive oil, vinegar and grape seed oil tasting. It's spread all over so you're not confined to one area to try them -service was EXCELLENT. The lady that helped us was superb. She was so friendly and NOT pretentious in the least. She made you feel comfortable and explained the wines and was very generous. I have never experienced such great service at a winery before. - the reds were really good!!! Their wine was excellent as well! - ambiance was perfect! CON: - The oils and vinegars were a bit pricey ($18/bottle) but they were DELICIOUS! I would definitely come again when I visit Santa Ynez! This is my favorite winery so far.... read more

The winery is cool and they have a good tour of the winery. The staff was nice and the tasting room is large. I was not crazy about the wines. I did not find one I liked. There was nothing special about the wine for me and thus I cannot recommend any wine from here. This winery is worth visiting 1 time to do the tour and try the wine as you may like it (everyone likes something different). it wasn't for me though read more

Great tour Vanessa was extremely educated in her craft . She was great and helpful . The wine is great . My favorite was 2012 proximity twenty -six . Red. We will be back . read more

Firestone Vineyard - Wine Tasting Room Near Me - Los Olivos, California

The tasting room is very classy and the views driving up to the property is so beautiful. Love the Syrah and rose. Shelby helped us and she was so sweet and such a big help! I'll deff be back to visit her and the wine read more

Firestone Vineyard - Wine Tasting Room Near Me - Los Olivos, California

Firestone is one of the larger wine producers in the area. It's worth a stop if you're tasting in the Santa Ynez Valley. Their Riesling was a standout. read more

We recently joined the wine club at Foley so we decided to stop by Firestone since we could taste for free. We won't be returning... Our surfer dude server was friendly, but we found the wine to be pretty terrible. That's obviously personal preference, but we thought it wasn't good and was over-priced. There are a lot better wines for $30 compared to their $60 bottles. There isn't really anything spectacular to say about their property, either. read more

Our experience at Firestone was the best of the Valley. First off, Efrain was awesome! Great personality, good wine, and beautiful winery. We thoroughly enjoyed our experience at this winery. read more

Today a group of us went to this winery. We had six people. The tasting room was beautiful. The wonderful lady who was serving us was her first day on job. You would have never of guessed. She was very knowledgeable about the winery and about wine in general. Vanessa was not bugged at all about the large group. I highly recommend this place! read more

Firestone Vineyard - Riesling 2013. Very nice bag is came in! - Wine Tasting Room Near Me - Los Olivos, California

I loved Katie! She was great and poured us all the good stuff :) Gave us great suggestions for town and explained all the pros and cons of the other wineries. We will for sure be back to see her and enjoy some more delicious vino. Options were solid on the reserve tasting list, especially the Malbec and the Cab. Love this place and LOVED Kaitlin!! read more

We had a reservation here; they had a power failure and had to close the winery. We were coming from out of town and did not know there was a power outage so when we arrived the winery was closed with no explanation given to us via text or email forewarning. It was very disappointing. Poor communication. read more

While growing up in the area, and being underage, I didn't have the appreciation I do now for vino. Went in on the last day of last year and we a very nice time. It wasn't crowded and while the person serving us seemed a tad snooty, it could of just been me.....no, it was her. One of the staff gave a nice little tour and gave good basic wine making information as well as history of the vineyard. One of the first large commercial wineries in the Santa Ynez Valley, their product is of good to high quality. If you've ever seen the movie Sideways, there was a scene filmed in the barrel room. read more

We were members of Firestone for many years and had great experiences and loved the wine. The tasting room is not something you stumble on but you plan to go there based on the location. We enjoy going to the area and visit about 4 times a year. Two weeks ago tomorrow we entered the tasting room at 3:30 pm and had a very nice server. She poured our first tasting and then greeted two others that walked in. When she came back to us the new "tasting room manger", I think his name is Chase, told her it was last call. He proceeded to pick up all the paperwork from the countertops and turned off both TV's. When I asked why this was happening she said she had no idea but he was just talking to management. I told her we drove a long way to get there and were planning on purchasing several bottles. I asked if there was an event that evening and was told no there was not. It was very apparent that he was totally pissed off about something and decided to close. He then turned away 3 more people who walked in the door saying there was a private party that night. Then he put signs he printed up in the windows saying there was a private party and they were closing early which we knew was not the truth. I am sad to say that this one experience leaves us upset and we hope to visit again sometime in the future, hoping to have a better experience. There are way too many wineries in the beautiful Santa Ynez valley to visit where you can enjoy a good experience with pleasant people. read more

Worth the trip to Firestone! had a great time, great wine and beautiful scenery. The basic Cab. at about $15 a bottle has a lot of spice and flavors, you can't go wrong with it. read more