Wine Riot

So much fun! Super super overdue review. Thank you Unilocal for allowing some of our elites to attend this event! Getting buzzed around noon time was absolutely wonderful, especially with all the wonderful wines we get to taste! Everyone at the wine booths are very nice and very informative. I’ve noticed that there’s a lot of moscato wine booths as well, my favorite! They also have an app called «Second Glass» where you can rate the wine that you’ve tasted and can bookmark them if you like them.
Other than wine tasting booths from many different California wineries, there were also seminars that are hosted. One of them that my buddy and I attended were the sake seminar. Pretty darn awesome!!! There were also a mini photo area where you can take pictures with provided props and you get to print them out instantly for a souvinir. So darn awesome. I also got some Unilocal swags while I was there. Yay!
It was absolutely a great experience since my buddy and I were planning a wine tasting trip to Napa and we get to get first time experience on basic lessons on how to wine taste, gained basic knowledge about certain red or white wine and had fun!

Definitely the BEST Unilocal Elite event I’ve attended so far (as of 7÷22÷14). Yes, the event took place in May 2014, so it’s a review long overdue. Better late than never ;)
Brought my lovely +1 from San Diego, and we had a fucking blast.
Unlimited wine for 4 hours? With amazing goat cheese (which I usually hate) on the house?! And to mention, short seminars on sake/​wine?
Met some great people, me and the girlfriend ended up having hot pot dinner with strangers turned friends. What better way to make friends than over unlimited wine & good vibes? Yeee.
Plus, I LOVE the fact they had an app called «Second Glass» where you could rate the wine you just had based on stall#, so you won’t forget what you enjoyed. I don’t know too much about wines, so this was the perfect way for me to remember exactly what I liked, and what I didn’t like.
Thanks a bunch to Katie B. & Unilocal for this AMAZING event! Hopefully I can go again next year :)

This event is pretty good: upon entry you get a bracelet (after paying $ 60, unless you’re lucky enough to get comped tickets) and that entitles you to unlimited wine. The pours vary from vendor to vendor, but if you can handle all four hours here you’ll get more than your fair share of vino.
The event feels fairly small, especially if you’ve attended other events at this venue. But it makes keeping track of where you’ve been fairly easy.
Parking here is a pain, but you probably shouldn’t drive unless you’re the DD.
If you like wine and want to try new ones then this is a good place to go for that.

This was a really fun event! Was lucky enough to get 2 free tickets to go. It was held in the California Market Center on the penthouse floor with beautiful 360 degree views of LA. There were many different types of wine from all over the world and were grouped by region. The wines ranged from dry to sweet and red, rose/​blush, white, sake. There were unlimited tastings and sessions to learn about the different types. Also, there was a fun tattoo station and food for purchase — the bacon wrapped dates from Carb & Nation were delicious!
It was the perfect wine lover’s event, and my husband and I enjoyed it very much. Thank you Katie B and Unilocal

How can unlimited tasting of wine be the best and worst thing that can happen to me on a Saturday !
My gf and I parked at my friends place near sky loft and just walked 4 blocks to fine the location. They had nice staff that directed you to the thirteenth floor where you get your cute little coachella-​like wristband. You grab a plastic wine cup and water were distributed (perfect for what happens when you drink wayyy too much)
My gf and i were so overwhelmed we didn’t know where to start! Our favorite of the evening were the Sangaria/​mascato wine they were sooooooo gooodddd!
The truffle cheese were delicious and the only food station they had their were to be purchased but at least they had vegetarian option!
The photo booth station were fun but to get a copy you had to pay $ 5 for it!
Overall, we didn’t know little sips of wine could get us so mess up. but it did!
My gf and I were fortunate that our other friend lived so close because really she had no idea how we walked back. and I, well i ended up throwing up my life and was afraid of looking at anything remotely like a wine bottle for days! Overall, it was awesome!

I’ve only been to one Wine Riot event and after hearing about the past WR’s, it seems safe to say that they are pretty consistent when it comes to event quality. Besides the 250+ wines, there was this…
OTHER THAN WINE
Classes — There were two separate classes going on at a time and it seemed that these were every 30 mins. I only went to the sake class and it was great. The host taught us about sake and we got to taste 4 different samples.
DJ — music the entire time
Photobooth — fun as always
Temp. Tattoos — a station where you got to choose temporary tats and put them on
FOOD
Just like in the past, food is not included in the price of admission. I only saw a hot dog vendor and another one called carb nation. This is definitely the area that I would improve upon for the next event. At least one more food option would be good.
LOCATION
For 2014, WR was held at the California Market Center in Downtown Los Angeles. It was a good location on the lucky 13^th floor. Temperature was well controlled and the room was well ventilated.
PARKING
Parking in LA is never fun but it isn’t too bad for this location.
There’s a Parking lot at Main and 9^th. (east of 9^th) $ 5 flat. The building’s own parking appears to be $ 9 flat. There are several other parking lots nearby but many of them are over $ 5 and some even $ 10