Events are live folks! Cost this year for beverage events is $25/person.
Reminds me to review what I did last year so here goes:
Skywalker: highly recommend Skywalker Vineyards. Very interesting, great wine. Their wine is expensive and hard to get hold of and excellent- that was my favorite and I would pay $25/person to do that one again in a heartbeat.
MacMurry: very good The daughter ran the seminar and was very interesting, wine was pretty good. Wouldn't repeat it but would recommend it.
Disney Sommelier "bubbles": horrible The "sommelier" was a CM from their PR division who literally got tasked with it last minute and READ FROM GOOGLE ON HOW SPARKLING WINE IS MADE. The sparkling wines were not even that good or interesting and she did not know jack about the topic at hand. I can read from Google on my own for heaven's sake!! I won't touch a "disney sommelier" event at
Disneyland with a 10ft pole, there was no reason that person should have been tasked with that event. Disneyland has a deep bench of actual sommeliers who could have handled a last minute presentation on sparkling wine.
Blinking Owl Distillery: bad Not horrible but definitely bad. We took a gamble as all we knew was the name of the company and they selected gin for a gin and tonic. Not because it was interesting or they wanted to talk about the various things you can do with gin and tonics- but because it was clear and therefore great for Instagram. They kept wanting people take pictures of their drinks and hashtag them on Instagram with their distillery- I get companies asking people to tag them if they Insta- but they were shoving it down our throats. I felt like I was being used as a sales pitch, not attending a seminar I literally paid cash for. The Disney mixology set up itself was pretty cool, if I was interested in the liquor or company I would do one again- just not that company's.