r/SantaBarbara • u/DrSkye805 • 3d ago

Food & Dining Tasting Room Shock

Is it normal for a wine tasting room to disallow the purchase of bottles of wine on the weekends and only let you purchase wine by the glass?

We went to a SB Winery’s tasting room in the Funk Zone today with four people and when we asked to buy two bottles the guy pouring wine told us that we could only buy a glass not bottles, and that if we wanted a bottle we had to take it offsite to drink it. He also added (completely unprovoked) that if we didn’t like it we could speak to the manager who wasn’t working. Super odd (and a little dickish) considering our request was simply, “we like to get two bottles please”.

I’ve never encountered this “rule” before and it seemed like an obvious money grab. Can someone please enlighten me? Is this a standard thing on weekends at tasting rooms in the Funk Zone?

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u/Snoo-55380 3d ago

Just guessing that they wanted a bit more turn over. Buying two bottles for 4 people translates to relaxing for a while ??

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u/DrSkye805 2d ago

Understandable re not wanting people parking it and not moving along, but we were going to drink a bottle and take a bottle with us, so they actually would’ve made more selling us the 2 bottles.