WINE TASTING AT CHARLIE & ECHO WINERY
Wine tasting at Charlie & Echo Winery is a fun and relaxing way to spend an afternoon. Charlie & Echo Winery is an urban winery focused on crafting unique sparkling and original wines. They make their wines onsite using grapes grown in San Diego and Temecula. Charlie & Echo Winery is small and independent but full of charm. They were recently featured in the San Diego Business Journal along with other San Diego Urban Wineries. The owners, a husband and wife team have owned the winery for ten years and recently relocated to their current location. Eric, the owner poured our wines during our visit. He was extremely friendly and knowledgeable.
We visited their winery and wine tasting room located in the Miralani Makers’ District where you can enjoy wine, beer, cider, and meal from a collection of craft beverage producers within walking distance. The wine tastings offered from Charlie & Echo’s wine list consisted of five wines for $12. Red and white wines were offered for these wine tastings. They also offer Project X tastings that rotate a series of their experimental sparkling wines. We were offered a bonus pour of their dessert wine The Alchemist, which was not on their wine tasting list.
The wine tasting room is pet friendly. We enjoyed our wine tastings with our golden retriever by our side. If interested, you are allowed to bring in any food and non-alcoholic beverages to enjoy while you are sipping your wine at Charlie & Echo Winery. We really enjoyed the 2012 GM and bought a bottle to enjoy again at home. A Wine Club is available if interested.
We used our San Diego Urban Wineries (SDUW) Passport. The SDUW Passport cost $35. This VIP passport provides free wine tastings at 11 participating San Diego Urban Wineries, as well as quarterly updates, and discounts on special events. (info@urbanwineries.com) For information on other San Diego Urban Wineries we have recently visited and enjoyed wine tasting, please check out our blogs: Blue Door Urban Winery dated 8/13/17, Pali Wine Co & Winery Tasting Room dated 8/22/17, and Negociant Urban Winery dated 10/11/17.
We enjoyed our wine tasting at Charlie & Echo Winery and look forward to returning. CHEERS!
Located at: 8680 Miralani Dr. #113, San Diego 92126, 877-592-9095
Tasting Room Hours: Thursday-4-8:00 pm, Friday-4-9:00 pm, Saturday-1-9:00 pm, Sunday-1-6:00 pm
DID YOU KNOW??
- There are about 49 million bubbles in a bottle of Champagne
- Poor soil tends to produce better wines than fertile soil
- As it ages, white wine gets darker, but red wine gets lighter
- The smell of young wine is called, “aroma” and the more mature wine offers more subtle “bouquet”
- Of course size matters…no one wants a small glass of wine!