clos lachance winery

This is one beautiful winery. The views are awesome and the wines are pretty good. They even have events.

I returned to Clos LaChance with a friend to join a lovely birthday celebration. I generally agree with other reviewers: absolutely beautiful location but nothing special about their wines. We did enjoy our picnic for 12 on their grounds. I always feel so relaxed in such beautiful surroundings. Excellent spot for a GNO get-together.The Time for Wine events are extremely popular and free. We saw the Chris Gardner Band the evening we were there...seems to be a fairly well-known country-rock artist. There must have been a line of cars on the side of the road for about one mile from the winery parking lot (also full). We could have kissed the shuttle driver's feet for providing that shuttle service and saving us from a very long walk. Note that their policy as of this writing is no beverage carry-ins(including any Clos LaChance wine you may have previously purchased).

We went here after shipping at the outlets in Gilroy. We found it online and thought we'd give it a shot. So glad we did. The staff was super friendly when we did our tasting and was very personable. The wine was excellent but the view is what stole the show. It's on gorgeous grounds that have spectacular views. We are already planning our next trip soon!

Attended a wedding reception here. Nice property and grounds.Excellent wines. A beautiful view out back. The Rose, Cab, and Pinot were very good. I would come back for wine tasting !

This place is a bit of a drive up a lane and then a private drive.....but once inside it is warm and inviting. The gentleman behind the bar was friendly and easy to strike up a conversation. He explained the 2 offerings of tastings available and we decided to spend the extra for the better wines, and I think it was the better choice. The wines very good. They have a very comfortable setting in the vineyard.

Beautiful winery close to San Jose. Rivals Napa Valley wineries. Super spot for a wedding, very romantic spot. Wine tasting was good. Only $5 for 5 wines. Good selection for tasting. Spent about two hours here just sitting, sipping, talking and enjoying the wonderful scenery. Want to come back here when in the area again. Thanks to our son who brought us here.

Beautiful location and building, great for tastings, picnics and WEDDINGS!Fabulous summer Thursday night concerts on the lawn, however get there EARLY!!I do agree that some of the staff has been unfriendly in the past, hopefully that has been rectified.The majority of the staff is very fun and accommodating. Enjoy your day tasting and relaxing!

Our friend from Gilroy which is a club member brought us to Clos Lachance - We were happy because we do have some of their production back home but only in private imports .As a member , he is allowed to bring some guests for free so we had the opportunity to have free tasting. It was not too crowded - it was 4h00pm on a Friday afternoon . We particularly enjoyed their Joli Meritage ( we brought back a bottle) - and one their chardonnay which I can't remember the name but it is around $28.00 and not listed on their current website list . There is a nice terrace with great view on the vines. Our friend said that there is monthly event and they really enjoyed it . Staff was very nice and friendly .

Just left after making it thru only half a tasting. The place was not busy, but server John was more interested in selling a case of wine to the couple next to us. After 10 min, and the wine we tasted not being that great - we left. A beautiful view, but don't waste your time on the tasting.

The winery is on the property and added something unique to the trip. The wine wasn't the best but they let you bring your own food if you like. We took a picnic lunch and had an amazing time tasting wines and enjoying the absolutely breathtaking views of the property.

Clos La Chance is the opposite end of the spectrum from Lightheart Cellars, also in San Martin. It is perhaps the new paradigm for Santa Clara Valley Wineries of moderate size.They have it all--music, weddings, picnics; parties, wine club, slick/sleek tasting room with scrubbed, friendly, and mostly efficient tasting room associates. It's a very comfortable place to meet a few friends for a pleasant day outside eating and drinking, and watching the golfers putt out at the hole of CordeValle Golf Club that abuts the tasting area. They also manage all the vines planted in the estates surrounding Corde-Valle. They bottle estate fruit and purchased fruit. The wines range from very good to excellent; most are fairly priced, some a bit overpriced. The last couple of years they've had sales to wine club members to make room for the new vintage--excellent wines for $5.00-$15.00/bottle! You can't go wrong. With the huge crop in 2012, they will probably have another this year, unless they've expanded their storage capacity.For a great day, tee it up early at CordeValle, visit Clos La Chance and Lightheart Cellars, then have dinner at Odeum in nearby Morgan Hill. It doesn't get any better than that.

Why should only Yelp readers have all the fun! After my one star experience at Onotria which I crossposted, I was reminded of my last terrible experience at The Winery That Shall Not Be Named back in November. You have been warned...All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else -- Mae WestFor the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance -- Mignon McLaughlinSometimes your best laid plans are great (the other six wineries I visited yesterday), sometimes they absolutely bite the big one (my visit at Clos LaChance). They definitely need to be discarded from any future visit by me and if you are ever in the area, I would recommend you bypass them as well. That is unless completely pretentious wineries with lousy, pretentious customer service are your thing.This was winery stop # 6 on this day and we were in a good mood. Clos La Chance was supposed to be our last stop but I missed Jason Stephens so was going to double back after visiting here. I should have skipped the long meandering road because once I saw the monstrosity of a winery, I suspected this was not going to be as friendly or as nice a visit as the rest of the Santa Clara Valley wineries had been. Like Nate Silver calling Electoral Votes, I was right. The winery looks like those places you see in Temecula and Paso...you know, big oversized chateaus that people with no taste visit because it mimics what they think a winery should look like and they just really belly up to the bar to get drunk. A place where limos and bachelorette groups go. Where the winery overprices their wines and people with no palate think they are great because well the wine is overpriced. That's Clos LaChance to a tee.At first it looked promising. They took our $18.00 tasting fee quickly ($10.00 Limited Tasting for me, $8.00 glass of Viognier for my friend). The Chardonnay that was part of my tasting was a surprise in that it was quite lovely. Balanced, a good quaffer...would be a nice $15 Chardonnay but overpriced at $35 winery retail. The Viognier though was terrible, a chemical experiment gone wrong. After the lovely, crisp, minerally Viognier we had at Sarah's Vineyard, this monstrosity was horrible. The winemaker should be ashamed. It's best use is not to drink, it should be used to power Apocalyptic Cars like in the Mad Max/Road Warrior movies. If the world ends and you need fuel for the car, Clos LaChance Viognier fits the bill (Just never, ever, ever drink it). I can only imagine how ghastly their $5 Sauvignon Blanc is that I saw at Safeway. Next up to taste...crickets. Well, not really crickets but after the Chardonnay we were completely ignored for (and we counted 18 minutes). No matter how hard we tried to get our girl, any girl, to serve us...nothing. They certainly fawned over the loud, pretentious couple next to us buying 6 overpriced wine glasses but my second taste was apparently too much for them to consider. Finally, our girl came back and gave me my second taste: 2008 Biagni Pinot Noir. It was definitely a large Pinot, I'm guessing with some syrah or something else added to it because closing my eyes it could have been anything but as the Pinot characteristics were obliterated. Again, a $15.00 everyday drinking wine but for $50.00 completely laughable. Now came our third taste...no, not really...more ignoring us. More fawning over the couple next to us. In fact, at one point after my second taste, 4 people from the other side of the counter were chatting these two up, including the owner's daughter! After waiting another 15 minutes I took matters into my own hands and poured myself my next taste: 2009 Erwin Pinot which had the same characteristics as the other Pinot. Why even bother making Pinot if you are going to treat it so? Now my tastes were showing up more rapidly. Self-service! Next: 2008 JoLi Meritage. Or was it a Pinot? Because it tasted exactly the same as the first two Reds!!!! Again, all of these wines taste like a $15 Red because there is no varietal characteristic left after the bludgeoning these grapes must have gone through. Just put a generic sticker that says Red Wine on these bottles because no one really is going to know the difference. Pinot, Meritage, Cabernet...oh, did I mention I poured myself my fifth taste...of the 2009 Whitestone Cabernet? Finally people noticed. The couple next to me looked at me like I had leprosy. The daughter of the owner stopped regaling this couple with her story. An older gentleman, maybe the owner, maybe the manager came over and said "Hey, you cannot do that. Only I can." My friend replied: "We have been here 30 plus minutes. No one was helping us". Did he apologize? Did he try and find out what was wrong? Nope. He walked away. Awesome customer service there, Buddy. Bravo! We left CLC at 4:35, after arriving here at 3:50. I barely made it to Jason Stephens before they stopped taking tasters (And they were 180 degrees different than the too full of themselves clowns at Clos ThereisAChanceWeSuck were). So go anywhere in the Santa Clara Valley instead of here. No really, GO ANYWHERE ELSE BUT HERE!

Not very exceptional wine. Nice people and something extra to try while staying at CordeVal Resort. Might be a good setting for a wedding or special event

Good wine, beautiful view, elegant tasting bar, bocce ball and reasonable prices. Hard to beat a visit to Clos LaChance. special offers on their wines are unbeatable in value. Thursday night summer concerts are a blast. Buy a salami or cheese plate, a bottle of their Meritage and relax overlooking the valley below. Wonderful!

The setting is beautiful, the barista was fun, nice and knowledgeable, the winery itself is gorgeous, and the wines are very nice. Some of the wines are moderately priced and others are expensive. But of all I tasted, there were few I didn't like. Definitely a place to return to.