DONATI FAMILY VINEYARD! MEGSMAKEUP.COM WRITER'S WINETASTING TIPS! PART 1!

This event was wonderful.  I was there and the wine was great and the food was excellent.  The Donati family makes you feel like you are related.  It was the highlight of the writer's retreat.  For anyone visiting the Central Coast this is one place not to miss. You'll learn so much about wine and your tastes buds will be in heaven. 

Snorting with laughter at the "memory" of the FABULOUS evening at the luscious "Donati" winery! They were as megken says,SO gracious and lovely to us,they literally spoiled us rotten. :)This video is sooooo tame: this was at first arrival and trust me,even I was a giddy-goose after several glasses of their AMAZING wines! "Lee" our host, was reduced to a blushing heap at our antics at the evening progressed.:) He is such a great guy as was the entire group who welcomed us!I can't say enough nice words about the staff,the venue,and the wines themselves,they are truly among the "gems" of the Central Coast and absolutely MUST be enjoyed! We were "bad" there (in that we acted like giggly little girls with all the wine they wanted :) and they loved us in spite of it! Put "Donati" at the top of your "must visit destinations" if ever you get the chance!!!Waves "hi" to megken who was very patient with our hysterical giggles for the most part even when he was trying to film in a barrel-room with bad acoustics,LOL! ;) Eleni and I were BAD...the seafood was among the BEST I'd ever tasted and we were totally hog-ettes and scarfed down so much it was evil. :)I am SOOOOOO IIINNNNNN Meg!!! You know that! :) 

I was in Scotland once, and went on a Whiskey tasting trip with a few friends. It was a lot of fun. A wine tasting trip sounds about the same, but in far better climate. :)

i've never done a wine testing, but i would like to do one. Maybe i can get a few of my friends interested so we can try one out.

Maybe you can come to Spain in the next wine tasting trip. I'll join you then.

Yippieee! It's remember-our-visit-to-Donati-Vineyards-day! Ladies, this was off the charts fun! I agree with mjsred – this video IS so tame compared to how the evening really was! First off, prior to the scene where Meg so gracefully exits the limo, we were all drinking champagne while moving our heads and gyrating our bodies to a hot music CD provided by mjsred in the limo! We had so much fun in that limo before we ever got to the vineyard! I think everybody looked serious in that opening first shot going into the vineyard because we were all trying to be respectful, however, just seconds before that scene, we were all laughing, loud-talking, and living-it-up-large, ladies in a long limo! As to the removing our individual sexily dressed bodies from the limo – it definitely was NOT a graceful feat! If any of you have been in a limo you will know that if you have a dress on and heels and it's time to get in or out of the limo, it's impossible to NOT have your dress hike up to your neckline trying to maneuver your legs to get out of the limo without exposing your sexy underwear or lack thereof! It's really quite difficult to maneuver with taste in entering and exiting a limo! I give 100 points to Meg for that beautifully executed and feminine exit out of the car! It's kind of like trying to climb up and out of a sink hole while looking demure! I think they should have some kind of electric chair deal that smoothly lifts you into and out of a limo!
The experience of actually going to a winery was SO exciting! I had never in my life been to one so I was off the charts practically jumping up and down! Our host was so friendly, he made every one of us feel like he was talking to us individually every time he spoke! He was a total EYE CONTACT GUY! Yes! He was friendly and warm and totally open to the crazy antics and personalities and questions of Meg and the Megettes! This was indeed the absolute fun way to start what had to be our best night ever together!
The wines we tasted were just delicious! Drinking and swirling and inhaling the fragrances of the various wines provided such a stimulating experience! I had never purposely inhaled wine before I actually tasted it! Back in the day when I first tasted wine, it was Mogan David Grape Vine my dad let me try at Thanksgiving! There was no sniffing first and I think I drank it out of a regular old drinking glass. My life was so much more exciting drinking wine with Meg and her entourage that day! Then, when we were also treated to the most unbelievably fabulous fresh seafood along with the wines....oh man, the taste buds were in total euphoria! I wish we were still there! Besides how out of this world the the seafood tasted, the presentation was magnificent! This event was FUN times a billion!
The special megheads Donati deal is well worth ordering...you'll look like a pro if you give this as a gift or you'll just have one hell of a sensational wine tasting event in your own home if you purchase it for yourself! Order some today and when it arrives, pour it into your deepest most exquisite wine glass and then pull up these videos and it will be just like you were there with us!

i have never been vine tasting and it sound good at the Donati Family Vineyard

It looks like you had heaps of fun!  One hens party that went was a winery tour.  We went to 3 different winereries to taste, one for lunch, then a nougat factory and a chocolate factory.  It was great!

I think this would be a perfect girl's night out! although i've only done wine tasting during family trips up to hunter valley (full of vineyards!) nonetheless i enjoyed it thoroughly.. even though i was under age most of the time.but i've planned for me and and a few girls to go wine tasting/dolphin viewing/chocolate/cheese tasting once i get a car :D

Wine tasting adventures would be SO much fun, now I wish I actually liked wine. Maybe I need to drink it more until I do like it. :P You ladies are all so beautiful, I just love watching the videos that are posted on here! <3

Wine trips are such good fun, I haven't been on one for ages, but it's a great idea.

I recently did a couple of wine tastings with my girls and we had a great time. It's always interesting to see who likes what, and of course to get a bunch of bottles to take home and drink together!

Jeanasina, you really do have a quality that makes others smile around you. You must be a very happy person with a very great outlook on life. You do not look your age. You could easily pass for 20 years younger and believe me, I never tell people that. I'm not saying 60 is old, because it's not. I think that is the time when you become more comfortable with who you are. Happiness and smiling does promote radiance and beauty in a person. I am trying to will myself into being this type of person but I need to work on it. I have many interests, want many things in my life but maybe as it states in the book "The Secret" It's your confidence and self worth that attract good things into your life. The book itself didn't seem much different from any other book I've read to be quite honest, but I did understand it. It's just making yourself do it. Getting going and putting everything into motion. It's great to be around positive people, they're always happy. I just need to stop worrying so much because before you know it I'm going to have to ask one of the ladies from the Housewives of wherever show to give me a good doctors name to get rid of my what could turn into a horrid furrowed brow. I really don't want to have the unibrow look that some of those politicians have. That is not good.

It looked like fun! Iam not sure if iam a wine girl! But Its one of those things i would like to try!Limos are great! We took one to the movies one night Just cuz!! Great fun!

There are a couple local wineries that I think would be perfect for a girls day out once we hit of age. Only two years but who's counting. lol

I love visiting wineries! Whenever we see one, my husband and I always make a point to stop by and do a tasting! We've been to several in Santa Barbara, some on the Eastern Shore in Virginia, Schnebly near the Everglades, Plymouth Bay Winery, etc.! Great, fun stuff! We love our wine!It would all depend on when, where, and what was going on with my schedule at the time if I could make a MM winery visit. I would love to go, though!

I'm so jealous! I wish I had the chance to visit such a fabulous winery :] It looks like it was a lot of fun - I have to admit that I haven't done this yet, but I look forward to doing so someday :] It's such a classy thing to do!