Nice Winery Guided Wine & Culinary Experiences
The best way to experience and enjoy our fantastic wine selection is through a Nice Winery Guided Wine & Culinary Experience. Our educational classes are seated discussions about our wines, winemaking, and food & wine pairing, not the typical stand-at-the-bar winery tasting. We strongly recommend our Premium Guided Wine Experience with Chef's Pairings featuring 6 of our most acclaimed and award-winning wines with our Chef's inventive food pairings.
To ensure the best possible visit for you and your guests, Nice Winery classes are by appointment only. This enables us to focus on you, and for you to be able to focus on the wine. If you have any questions, please see the FAQs below or call us at 713-744-7444.
All experiences are communal with mixed groups. If you are a party of 6 or more, or require a private experience, please email our Sales Director, Michelle Young at Michelle@nicewines.com for booking.
All Experiences are by appointment only.
Premium Guided Wine & Culinary Experience with Chef's Pairings
$70 per person
Enjoy a fun and educational class featuring six of our highly rated, premium wines. Classes are led by one of our knowledgeable winery team members. Wines will be served with 6 Chef-crafted accompaniments, specific to each wine. This Experience also includes a short tour of the winery. All wines featured will be available for purchase at the winery. Minimum of 2 attendees.
Tasting duration: 1 ½ - 2 hours. Click here to book this experience.
What Can I Expect at a Nice Winery Experience?
Our guided Experience classes are a little more unique than your typical belly-up-to-the-wine-bar setting. We host seated, educational tasting experiences at our beautiful and cozy winery that has a living room setting. This means you might be seated next to someone you don't initally know, but trust us, you will not be strangers by the end! It is critical that you arrive on time to maintain the timeline of the wine and culinary tasting experience.
We try to keep our tastings under 16 people in order to offer an intimate setting where attendees feel comfortable asking our Winemaker and staff questions. Our tastings start promptly on time, so we ask for guests to please arrive at least 15 minutes early.
What Nice Winery IS
At a tasting, you will learn all about our unique winemaking concept, why we choose to make sustainably-farmed wines without the use of chemicals or additives, the difference between family-owned wineries vs. commercial wineries, why you really get headaches from red wine (hint - it's not sulfites!), how to decipher tasting notes in wine, and any other questions you've ever wanted to know about wine and winemaking. Every tasting is accompanied by cheeses and other items specifically chosen by our in-house Chef.
What Nice Winery IS NOT
Nice Winery is focused on wine and wine education. While we are thrilled for those of you who are celebrating bachelors/bachelorettes, weddings, birthdays, etc., we are not a good fit for gatherings of this type. If you want to bring a group in for a wine education class, we are happy to have you! If you want to drink with friends and wear cute birthday hats, we respectfully ask that you find a different venue. We are not a wine bar. Although we do sell bottles of wine, we do not sell wine by the glass. We do not allow outside food or drinks. We also cannot allow balloons or outside decorations. We are a 21-and over establishment and cannot accommodate small children.
We hope you'll join us for a tasting and we look forward to welcoming you!
HOUSE RULES:
We are unable to accommodate any visitors under the age of 21, including infants and children on the winery premises. In addition, we are unable to accommodate any pets.
Due to limited availability, we kindly ask that you let us know if you are unable to make your tasting appointment. We offer a courtesy window of 5 minutes for late arrivals. If you arrive more than 10 minutes beyond your reservation time we will make every reasonable effort to accommodate your party, but please understand after 15 minutes your ticket is forfeited.
Cancellation Policy:
We are unable to offer any refunds for cancellations or no shows on the day of your scheduled tasting, class, dinner, or event.
Regularly Scheduled Tastings (During Normal Business Hours) for cancellations PRIOR to the day of your event: 48-Hour notice is required for tasting ticket refunds. If less than 48-hours notice is given, we will provide an in-store credit on a Nice Wines gift card for 75% of the ticket price. Gift cards are valid for wine purchases and future events only. We are unable to offer any refunds for cancellations or no shows on the day of your scheduled tasting, class, dinner, or event.
Private Events, Private Tastings, After-Hours Tastings, Classes, and Wine Dinners: 48-Hour notice is required for ticket refunds. If less than 48-hours notice is given, we cannot provide a refund due to the limited number of seats and expense of the event. All deposits are not refundable.
To submit an inquiry about wine tasting availability, please fill out the form below and we will respond to your request as soon as possible. Note: filling out this inquiry does NOT book or confirm a tasting.