Newport Beach Wine Festival

DON’T WASTER YOUR MONEY. .. The price of this event keeps increasing and the vendors become fewer and fewer every year.
There used to be great wineries now there are a few good ones and a lot of not so good ones. The food is OK, it’s served banquet style, no tables to sit and eat so you have to stand and eat while balancing your wine.
The Balboa Bay Club used to sell the tickets for $ 110, this year they are including a $ 10 tax and $ 31.00 gratuity totaling $ 166.00. From personal experience it’s not worth $ 166.00.
We had planned to have a group of 16 friends go to this event tonight until we found out that they are deciptively charging $ 166.00 per ticket when advertised at $ 125.00. We’ve decided to make reservations at a nice restaurant and we’re all bringing a great bottle of wine. .. better food, better wine and we can sit down and enjoy our evening at a fraction of the price.

This’ll be my first year attending the NBWF (or any wine festival really… :P)! Memorial day weekend here I comeee