Annadel Estate Winery

s important to warn other couples. Annadel is beautiful, but it's owned and managed by Dean and the success of your wedding will be entirely dependent upon his whims. I consider our wedding venue choice to be a complete FAIL. Here's why -- on the morning of our ceremony, without bothering to inform us, Dean turned away our top-notch specialty cocktail mixologists at the door - refusing to let both them and the alcohol on the premises. We ended up only being able to serve Dean's wine (Note: he requires that couples purchase 5 cases of his wine irrespective of the size of the wedding) and some beer that our planners and caterers managed to secure for us. No hard alcohol! We were so disappointed -- we'd gone through the trouble of hiring one of the top mixologists in So Cal and actually flew him and his team up from LA to bartend. We'd chosen specialty cocktails, printed menus, and told all of our guests about them. It was mortifying when we had nothing but mocktails thrown together at the last minute to serve them. We later learned that our mixologist had spent the week trying to secure a permit that Dean said the Alcohol Beverage Commission (ABC) required them to have. Dean refused to help them secure the permit. He claimed to be "too busy" with the farm, and even told them to "figure it out," when they reached out to ask for more information about the requirements. To make matters worse, as it turns out according to the ABC, they/we didn't need a permit after all -- so Dean denied us part of what we bargained for in our contract for NO legal reason! After paying nearly 10K for the venue+wine, I consider it a breach of his obligations under our wedding contract to refuse to assist our vendors with obtaining the proper permitting and even worse -- to be completely wrong about the permitting requirements. We are considering suing him. Consider whether you want to have leave your wedding in the hands of a owner-managed venue who can literally turn you and any of your vendors away at the door on the day of. He has final say on every vendor and to say he's not an agreeable person is an understatement. It's not worth it. We regret choosing Annadel as our venue. More useful details on Yelp if you are interested. Best of luck! P.S. -- since we posted our review on Yelp, Dean has contacted us dozens of times to try to bully us into removing our review. Who knows how many other couples were dissatisfied and bullied out of sharing their stories. We're standing firm and are happy to forward along emails from Dean to anyone interested. Also, beware of vendors to whom Dean directs business rushing to his defense. Sadly, they have a pecuniary interest to protect -- we do not.

e property's old mill and led us all through a heartfelt and delicious wine tasting. It was many of our guests first wine-country experience, and it set the bar high for the rest of the weekend. When the sun started to set we all moved into the rustic barn. The barn is interesting enough inside to need very little decor, however we fancied it up a bit with fresh flower arrangements and a beautiful and delicious dinner catered by nearby Olive & Vine. Annadel is also a flower farm, so as you can imagine the photos everyone took there are amazing. You can feel good about booking an event with them because they aren't a large, super commercial and overdone winery. It really is just the Bordigioni family, opening the grounds of their stunning home and bottles of their delicious wine for you and your guests to enjoy.