Lucia’s Wine Co

We tried this tasting room for the first time and were not impressed. They must think they are Los Olivos. Wine was way overpriced. All wine at Casa Du Metz in Los Alamos is $ 10.00. Orcutt does not need wine for $ 14 or more per glass. They also need more help serving. Also, the fact that they do not offer industry discounts like all other tasting rooms speaks poorly.

I would like to tell the owners that Phil and Isai are the best! We come here for Phils great company and the best food in town by our favorite chef. We have only been in a few times but we keep coming back for these two! What a wonderful environment and great way to spend our Saturday afternoon. Great music, better company, amazing food!!!

We went for the music and Ron Miller was great! However, the pizza was dry, few toppings, nothing resembling fresh… dried basil tasted awful. My Supreme had black crunchy stuff all over the top. Unidentifiable, with an odd taste so I didn’t finish it and was still hungry. The wine was mediocre at best and a ridiculous $ 65 per bottle price. Service was slow and inept. We had to ask for menus when a friend joined us, waited forever for them, had to ask for a spoon for the shrimp cocktail, another wait. We asked for water, another long wait, and they brought bottles to the table with no glasses. Finally, I poured it in my used wine glass. Yuk.
The table had a sticky surface and were told they had a problem with the «chemicals» in varnishing the tops. Nasty. We sat next to the front window which had a couple of deep cracks over 2 feet long. The slightest structural movement would bring it down causing great bodily injury. There wasn’t even tape on it. I thought maybe they had just opened and still getting it all together, but that was not the case. How do they get repeat business? They won’t get ours. Our party of 4 won’t be back. We’ll enjoy Ron music elsewhere!

What a Pleasant Surprise!1 This place has live music on Saturday nights. Me and my girls came here on our wine tasting day out and saved it as our last winery/​tasting room because we knew they had live music that night. The owners were super friendly, my wine was delicious, the live music was awesome. We even stayed for dinner and boy was i surprised that my girlfriend’s steak was perfectly cooked and phenomenal, I had a salmon dish which was superb as well, the other two gals shared a salad and said it was very good. I was pleasantly surprised! Who knew, fine dining, live music, dancing and excellent wine all here in Orcutt in my own backyard so to speak. We will definitely be back again. What a perfect end to our night. Pleasantly surprised.

Great tasting wines, all from local vineyards. Manager Brian was great, gave us the history of the wines and of the town. I’ll definitely make Lucia’s a regular stop!

It’s almost a year since I stopped in at Lucia’s Wine Co. Back then, they were fairly new but since then they have upped their game. I enjoyed the best pork chop I have ever eaten. OMG! Well seasoned, a little crispy on the outside, fork tender on the inside, this thing left me wanting more. My hubby is stuck on their authentic Italian pizza cooked in their wood fired oven and the wine… not enough words to describe the delicious, smooth drink of the Gods. Drop on by, the people are friendly, the live music is lovely, the bar is welcoming and well… it’s a great date night kind of place.

This place was not great. My friend and myself went there this week and we each ordered a glass of wine and a few appetizers. Let me say that portion size for each appetizers were NOT shareable, barely enough for 1 person and extremely overpriced. I had 2 glasses of their pinot noir and that cost me 28 bucks. My appetizers, 2 glasses of wine and tip brought me to about 50 bucks. The wine and food was not that great for what I had to pay. Not to mention the owners were sitting in the back enjoying there food and wine not even helping the one gentleman who was the only waiter in the whole place. I will never go there again. I could have gotten way more food and wine elsewhere for the price I paid.

I just don’t get it. Go on a Tuesday and there are two people working with very few customers. Go on a Wednesday their open mic night and there is one guy working. He is so stressed out you feel bad ordering anything. What takes the cake is the owners sitting at the back table enjoying wine and food while this guy is working his butt off. I used to go with my mom but two weeks of this painful to watch fiasco is enough for me.

This place does not offer wine industry discount on flights nor wine purchases, probably the only tasting room on the Central Coast that does not. A flight of wine was $ 14 for six samples. The wine was unremarkable and the Gewürztraminer was flat and the date written on the bottle indicated it had been opened 5 days prior. If you want to purchase a logo glass, that is an additional $ 6, the glass for purchase was not new, but well used. Compare that to tasting on the Foxen Canyon Wine Trail where you can taste quality wine and keep the new glass for $ 10 for a flight of six samples. The wine at Lucias is greatly overpriced, go to Core or Wine Country nearby for better tasting wines… Lucias wines are bad, you’ve been warned! *Oddly, the wine bar did not have pour buckets available, had there been, most of my samples would have found that place.
We ordered flatbread pizzas from the brick-​oven in the kitchen. The pizza wasn’t bad, but like the wine, overpriced. The day was windy and apparently that caused the smoke from the oven to flow down the chimney and into the tasting room. Irritated eyes and lungs just added to the bad experience. Paying for bad wine, overpriced food and to smell like a campfire is not my idea of a good time. The only reason this review received 1 star is because zero is not an option.

Waiting for the Orcutt Christmas parade we saw they had breakfast. They serve pizzas with their wine. They had breakfast pizza topped with egg, bacon and cheese. I was shocked that I have never had anything like this before. The pizza was awesome! We’ll have to be back for dinner.
As for their wine, everyone has a different palette so wine reviews are tough. I am new to wine and I found there pinot to be smooth and easy to drink. I would recommend newbies to wine come try them out to see what you’ll like.

Atmosphere is nice, Tom & Ben are great… wine is awful ;(

My wife and I gave this establishment a whirl on «Open Mic» night 4-​24-​2013. Interesting to say the least. The Pinot we tried, by the glass, while not up to premium standards was certainly a cut above what you would expect from, say Trader Joes. The dude pouring was putting about 4.5 oz. in a glass (at $ 10 plus) and when he poured out the end of a bottle, without completing the 4.5 oz., he opened a new bottle and without smelling or tasting it, completed the pour – totally amateur time.
The talent ran the course from pretty bad to quite good, and that is to be expected. Unfortunately, one female in the audience felt she was part of the entertainment and kept a rather loud running commentary on some of the routines, kind of killing the spirit of the entertainers. Dude doing the pouring said nothing. Upon leaving I was charged for four glasses of Pinot Noir but received only three – two for me and one for my wife.
Interesting and short evening. I will not be racing to return. But, if you are looking for an adventure, or thrive on mediocrity, you might just enjoy yourself – maybe. GT

The wines are amazing and the customer service is absolutely top notch. A Must-​visit in Orcutt.

Unfriendly, negitive manger. We stopped in to have a glass of wine after having a pizza. She saw our pizza box and said you can’t bring food in here. So we turned around and left. This was our 2^nd time we have tried this place. Unfriendly, negitive manger both times.

Ben and Lucy Gonzales have opened the latest tasting room. Serving award winning wines such as Pinot and Chardonnay along with not so common wines like Muscat and Sangiovese.