Tycoga Winery Distillery - Dewitt

I love the outdoor patio! Shade umbrellas. Beautiful grounds with a little water feature and the vineyards turn into lovely Iowa countryside.It always bums me out how unapologetically RUDE the manager is (male who seems in charge)…he’s extremely disrespectful and degrading to the staff and will do so right in front of the customers. I can’t imagine working there for longer than one shift with the way he speaks to them.

This winery offers a diverse selection of wines, including dry reds, whites, and a variety of fruit wines. The wine tasting is an excellent opportunity to sample the wide variety of wines and learn about the winemaking process. The wines are produced with care, using traditional methods and locally-sourced ingredients, resulting in a delightful and distinct taste and was a good stop during our journey.

I visited this winery on March 16th. Let me skip to some of the highlights of my visit.When you do a wine tasting, your server will usually begin by asking So what kind of wine do you like? This is an easy way for them to suggest to you wines that you might prefer.I usually say, as I did on this day, I like a wide variety of wines; dry, semi-sweet, and sweet. Normally at this point, my server would present me with a wine list and make a few suggestions in each category. This time, the server closed the menu that I was looking at and refused to let me view it until I told him my preferences . He said, I don 't want people leaving and saying our wines are bad because they didn 't pick the right ones . Why assume that your guests are clueless about wine?! Closing a menu that a guest is looking through is outright rude.Frustrated, I handed the server a list of wines that I had written while planing my visit, each one separated into categories of sweetness levels. He then complained, “Well, see, here’s the problem! We have these [grape] varieties in different levels of sweetness!” Never mind that I had already categorized them, maybe..oh geez, I dunno… ask which ones i want?I pointed to the first one on my list, La Crescent (dry).After tasting the wine he asked, “So what do you think?” I replied, “It has a bit of a tart green apple taste.” He said, “Look, unless you’re a som[melier] I don’t care what flavors you pick up on. I just want to know if you like it or not.” Okay, good to know you’re only interested in moving bottles. At that point I noticed that the wines on the menu did not have flavor descriptions. At some wineries the servers or even the owner would get the opinions of their customers to create flavor descriptions for the wines.I observed the server conducting another tasting, and I really wouldn 't recommend this place for people just getting into wine. Go somewhere that isn’t so tactless, provides flavor descriptors in their menu, and has staff that is willing to make suggestions more specific than just “do you want to go sweeter or dryer?”I would advise against anyone going here unless you have a specific very style of wine in mind. And even then, good luck! I won 't be telling anyone that the wines are bad, they 're actually fairly decent; I 'll be telling everyone about the rudest service I 've ever received at a wine tasting.

Beautiful facility, wonderful, wine and food, and an extremely knowledgeable staff. Especially shout out to Neza, the man has taught me more about Wine than anyone else!

My friends and I went to the winery today to celebrate my birthday, we had been planning this and was so looking forward to going there. I had not been there for a long time, my Dad had passed away 2 days prior to us coming so I wasn’t even sure I was wanting to be out in public yet. When we arrived the Man that was working seemed as though we were an inconvenience, I wanted to walk out but my friends wanted to stay so I did. When I said it was my birthday he could have cared less. My friend asked for napkins and he treated her the same as if she was an inconvenience, she also asked for 2 extra olives on her **** Mary and they told her (the most you can have is 2) seriously how much do olives cost? The nicest person in the building was the 15 year old boy who served us our pizza. I never give feed back but as much money as we all spent today I felt it necessary to let you know how we were treated. Any winery that I have ever been to they were happy to have the business, I don’t plan on coming back and I plan on telling people how we were treated.