Vitagliano Vineyards - Paradise in the heart of Temecula Wine Country!

One of the things I love about working with wine is getting to experience places like this on a regular basis...

Vitagliano Vineyards Tasting Room

This amazing property is located in the heart of Temecula's wine country. It's located on the important Glenoaks Road that connects Rancho California Road and De Portola Trail - Temecula's two main wine country arteries.

For some amazing pictures of this place take the JUMP....

Yes, there's a lake on the property - talk about a place to taste wine!

It's hard to imagine this place... it's tucked into a small valley not visible from the road... this makes it even more surreal.

View of the open-air tasting room from the parking lot

You park up top, and enter through terraced vineyards and a stroll around the lake before arriving at the tasting room...

Lake Side Tasting Room Patios

This whole property is designed to keep you outdoors in Temecula's nearly perfect year-round Mediterranean climate....

Soon to be completed open-air tasting room with roof top deck

The owners, Frank and Lisa Aglio, originally developed this property as a wedding event center - Lake Oak Meadows. Now that the wedding center is booming, the next phase is the Vitagliano Vineyards winery and tasting room.

The building is almost complete, just waiting for finishing touches before it opens for the many many wine tasters traveling to Temecula. Even though there hasn't been a tasting room here before, groups of visitors still stop regularly just to see this place...

Romance is everywhere

The tasting room is joined by covered patios bordering the lake, and a roof top deck with tasting bar and fire place...

There's a deck up there waiting for you

And adjacent to the main open-air tasting room is another tasting bar across a cobble-stoned lawn area...

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Peaking around the fountain at the outdoor tasting bar

This place is loaded with flowers...

Wild flowers dot the property everywhere

More Flowers

And More Flowers

And Then Some More Flowers

... and fountains...

Fountain just outside main tasting room in cobblestone lawn area

... and water features everywhere...

Babbling Creek

The main lake has water features that shoot columns of fire at night for the weddings and special events held here year round...

Lake Oak Meadows

And if all this isn't enough, the wines are handcrafted (already winning numerous awards) with an emphasis on Italian Varietals! This is probably one of Temecula's most beautiful winery sites... it's magical from the word go!

STAY-TUNED, I'll keep you posted as this property nears completion for wine tasting!