Water 2 Wine

Received exceptional customer service today! Unfortunately I was in a rush so wasn’t able to take advantage of trying the wine prior to purchase. I look forward to returning and trying their wine tasting!

We got so many compliments on the wine we served at our daughter’s wedding reception — not only how great it tasted, but how beautiful the bottles were! Best of all, the bride and groom’s families came together to make and bottle the wine, providing many bonding opportunities throughout this busy year of planning. We compared the cost of purchasing off-​the-​shelf wine with making our own at W2W, and the decision was an easy one to make — our daughter’s wedding wine cost less, tasted better and had personalized labels that made the couple’s reception uniquely theirs. The W2W staff was so friendly and accommodating — we look forward to relaxing in their beautiful facility for happy hour in the very near future.

My wife and I received poor service from WATER 2 WINE Anderson lane, Austin TX location. Entered the store for the first time and had several questions pertaining to the wine selection and was rudely ignored by employee at the front door (no visible name tag) After my second verbal request for help, she stated «I am talking to the musician», the musician asked her to help us and she refused. I hope this was not racially motivated. Business are there to make money and not judge due to color of skin. Austin TX 2015 and you employ Klan members. GREAT JOB!

I love this place. It’s a great place to hang out without the girls, take the boyfriend for a date night, or just sit and sip wine. The staff members are amazing and have extensive knowledge of their wines. They lead you to finding the wine to suite your taste. Having 5 free tastings allows you to find that perfect wine without breaking the bank. I highly recommend the caramel port! Also, if you enjoy their wines as much as I do, their wine club membership is a steal.

If you are a young couple, or an old couple, or an odd couple, and you decide you want a wine baby, you may be a bit worried about where, when and how to do that. It’s a big step and you should have nothing but the best for your Vino Bambino, so please look no further than Water 2 Wine, and Jenny in particular. She is the BEST midwife for your wine labor.
We just had the best experience making, bottling and labeling our wine baby. It was smoooooth sailing and immediately made me want another :) When you decide to make your own wine, first, you’ll get to sample the wines, ALL of them if you so wish. I spent two afternoons sampling bunches of them and all the staff were generous and enthusiastic in helping me find which wine I wanted. Then, you make an appt for conception. It’s fairly simple and pleasurable. Again, you can grab a glass of wine as you work, mixing the juice and water and yeast in a giant white bucket (Carboy), churning away for about 10 minutes and then your part is done for about 6 weeks! The rest of the staff will ensure that your baby gestates comfortably and appropriately, testing its ph and sugars until its ready to be born.
Then the magic happens. As the parent, you’ll have full creativity in naming your baby. In which case, you can pick any 3 images you like, decide the wording and color scheme and font of the label, email all that to Jenny and she’ll print out the most perfect labels. You can then invite a bunch of friends to witness and help in the birthing. You can bring in all kinds of snack ems and the fine ladies at Water 2 Wine will immediately ply your guests with tastings of their wine and you can buy bottles (and bottles) to facilitate in the birthing process. Everyone in your party can try their hand at filling bottles, corking bottles, melting the lid foils, and sticking on labels. In the end, you’ll have about 30 bottles of fantastic wine (I recommend the Gruner!) to share and take home.
They make for fantastic house warming, business, wedding, new baby, Christmas, Hanukkah, etc gifts. In fact, if you decide last minute you’d like to adopt a wine baby for Christmas, they keep a bunch already made and ready to label for your Christmas party or gifts.
Best thing was, our friends had so much fun and it was such a new experience for all of us that we WIN again as the hostess with the mostest. And, even though I had grand plans of using this wine at our housewarming party, I doubt it’ll last another 8 – 10 months so we may indeed make another baby next year.
Jenny and the rest of the staff really made this so much fun and interesting with all their cool contraptions and accomodated me with the music I wanted (got to have appropriate Edith Piaf wine birthing music!) and never left a wine glass dry in my group.
So grab your partner, in life, in business, in crime, and get to makin that baby! They’re the best kind of babies, they don’t puke or shit or cry and instead of causing you stress, they relieve it. And in the end you’ll have the coolest collectible bottles.

Great laid-​back tasting room. Staff is very friendly and helpful. Prices are reasonable and tasting is free. You can even make your own wine and that gets you 28 – 30 bottles. Will have to try that another time. Highly recommend this place!
Only downside, no Texas wines. But all their wines are made on-​site with grapes from various vineyards.

The team at W2W knows their stuff. I’m only disappointed I didn’t visit here earlier in life. The crew is helpful, knowledgeable and always friendly.
Whether it’s a glass of vino after work, a place to gather on weekends with friends or a fun place to work remote during the week W2W has it all.
I always thought you could only make wine here and was surprised to learn it’s also a wine bar and retail destination.
Stop by and challenge the team to find you the perfect glass– they won’t disappoint.

Attended a fun wine pairing class (groupon deal) — a great time and highly recommended!
I have an alcohol allergy (it’s an Asian thing! ;-), so it’s awesome to learn about and try some low sulfite wines.
I’m not really a fan of wine (or alcoholic beverages in general) for obvious reasons, but if I were, I’d buy it all here! Enjoy!

Love this place! Great place to stop for a glass of wine and taste a few more after a long day of work!

We always have a great time here! Great service and great selection of wines. Weave our own wine and labels for the holidays and they were a big hit.

ok its hard to not have fun at a wine taste. BUT here is my complaint. the wines here are cheap. not great quality.
you pay $ 21 and then they dribble wine to you– small glasses small tastes.
it is a nice stting and it is a nice time but the wines themselves could be better. I would pay $ 10 more for better wine.

Water2Wine is THE place to go for good conversation, good wine, and good people. The staff is fantastic, the wine pricing is wonderful… we make our own house wines, complete with custom labels, and our house guests LOVE them and they are significantly cheaper per bottle than stocking up at HEB or similar. Love this place… join the wine club for even more savings!

I went in tonight to order custom labeled wine for my nephew’s wedding, I expected it would take a week or more. Wow! They created the label on the spot while I sipped on my free wine. She then made up the wine bottles while I watched. Super easy! Super customer service! This place rocks off the charts. I can’t wait to go back and make some wine!
And I love my wine bottles. It’s going to be a big hit at the wedding. Thanks Water 2 Wine on Anderson!

Water 2 Wine has taken your normal wine drinking experience and given it a unique spin by providing you the keys to the winery and letting you become the vintner. You make your own batch of wine, create custom labels, bottle it, and best of all, taste the fruits of your labor. By having you do this work on site they are able circumvent certain regulations resulting in less sulfites and other chemicals than store bought wines.
I have been visiting Water 2 Wine for about five years and actually created a batch with my wife and we gave the custom bottles of wine away as gifts at our wedding. The gifts were a hit.
Water 2 Wine imports their grapes and juices from other vineyards. This is not uncommon for vineyards in Texas as most don’t grow enough grapes, if any, to meet their own demand. When you decide to make a batch this is where you will start. You will mix the juice, and depending on the type of wine you are making will add flavors like oak.
After you make the wine it will go in the back room for fermentation where the staff will guide the wine along over the next six to eight weeks changing containers around six times.
About two months later you will come back and bottle your wine. You add your label, fill the bottle, cork it and shrink wrap foil around the top. Like a good chef test tasting food a lot of quality assurance goes on during this process. This is a perfect event to bring along a group of friends. Hopefully you end up bottling more wine than you drink.
You don’t have to make wine. Water 2 Wine is also a spacious wine bar, with a large selection of wine, where you can stop in just to drink some wine. All of the wine is made on site by the employees. They don’t sell food but you are welcome to bring in food to eat with your wine. There are plenty of tasting options or you can buy by the glass or bottle. The staff is very friendly and have been one of my favorite aspects of every visit.

Water 2 Wine is a nice place to drop in for a neat experience that is fun and delicious. We made a batch of wine, which I had given to my friend as a unique birthday gift. The process took a few visits, all of which were enjoyable — and made more so by the wines.
The staff is great and they really make this place. I’ve been there several times and they consistently are high-​energy and into what they are doing. And, they have a good time while they are focus on their customers having a good time. Nice to see the owner talking to customers, serving drinks, and helping the great staff keep the place moving.
I get — and appreciate — the value proposition. Not only is it a fun place to hang out, the wines are are good — some better than others — and a value. We made an Amarone that would cost easily $ 40+ per bottle elsewhere. All in, we paid 25% of that and we enjoyed the process while also having the pride in making our own high-​quality product.

Very friendly, exuberant staff… check.
Interesting concept (make your own wine!) & fun factor… sure, check.
Free wine tasting (5 tastes offered)…check.
Their «ready made» wines… uh well, let’s just say I do not believe you can make decent wine out of water; and from the wines I sampled it seems that’s just what they are trying to do.

Myself and a few friends went there yesterday around 3pm — Only reason that I am giving it 3 stars is because they had great FREE live music and the Pomegranate Zinfandel was GREAT but other than that it would have gotten 2 stars.
Group non friendly — went there with one of my Meetup groups and they wanted to put us in the way back away from everyone else and with no chairs.
Staff were rude and not very pleasant to deal with.
I will not return to this location.

My friend and I headed here to use our Groupon — Overall, I would give this place a «Meh» rating. Not the most exciting place I’ve gone, but for the value of the Groupon — not bad.
For starters, they booked us for a wine tasting the same night as a movie night. Had I not called earlier in the day to confirm our reservation, I would have shown up to find out that we were placed in the backroom to kill out the noise of the movie. Thankfully, I called earlier and was able to show up earlier for the tasting and avoid the movie night.
The wines were simply okay — nothing mind-​blowing, nothing great, and nothing I felt like I absolutely HAD to take home.
Honestly, our sommelier really could have used a little more personality. While I tried incessantly to tune out Jenny or Jessica (the woman who talks like she is yelling across a football field at all times), our wine connoisseur lacked personality in the way the wine lacked taste. My best friend and I were bantering back and forth about what we thought about each of the wines and asking questions and she often talked over us (!) or simply refused to engage in our conversation. We’re pretty friendly people, so it was kind of off-​putting that she didn’t see that we were trying to have a conversation with her and that made it kind of awkward. She wouldn’t even comment on what we thought of each wine we tried. It was just awkward.
Toward the end, we were ready to go and she kept wanting us to try different wines so she really didn’t know how to take a hint. I honestly think she just might be incredibly socially awkward — not something that’s highly desirable in someone that is pouring tastes. Definitely didn’t make me feel inclined to buy additional wine.
The Groupon made the experience totally worth it, we walked away with a bottle of the port (pretty good, but easily the best thing we had all night in the tastings) and heard a little bit about the wine club that would be a GREAT deal if their wines were actually good.
Overall, I would recommend for a cheap bottle of wine or a cheap customizable bottle of wine. If you have a deep respect for your taste buds, this is probably not the place for you.

This «wine production» is very inviting, low-​key, and affordable. The people that work here are awesome, and the idea of making your own wine is pretty radical. Although most of the difficult things are done by them, it is still a cool thing to do. It is always cool to slap your own label on something!
The wine tasting class is a great introduction on how to go about enjoying fermented grapes. The atmosphere is very non-​pretentious, and they let you try ANYTHING and see EVERYTHING. They have 30+ types of wine, and all of them are pretty different. They have some really unique choices.
The production is all done in the same building, so you can make anything you taste. This place is definitely deserving of some praise, but it just sucks that it does not give off that «winery» vibe. They do, however, let you host parties here. I would just prefer to enjoy my classy wine in a bar, foodservice operations, or out on a vineyard.

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«This is going to be like, maybe a 2-​star review. I don’t like the ambiance very much, it seems like it’s all geared at making your own bottle of wine. I couldn’t see myself drinking a glass here.»
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«Ohmygod, this girl is so nice. Where do they get staff like this? YES! I’m going to have that Pinotage, I don’t care that it’s a faux pas in the wine world to love it. I do, she does, they have it, and I am in amazement at all the other things they are letting me freely sample here!!»
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«Now that I’ve completed 400 free samples it appears, according to this chart I can have additional samples of just about EVERYTHING in the store for just $ 1 a taste. Oh, wow! Wines by the glass really aren’t that much higher, the $ 4-​$ 8 price range is beyond fair! This one goes for about $ 44 at high-​end grocery stores and here you can fetch it by the bottle for less than $ 25!»
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«Is it just me or is everyone that comes in here a couple? This must be the most romantic thing in the world to do if you’re an already live-​in couple! Those two just made a wine and label based on their two dogs and named it ‘8 Paws.’ Kind of sickeningly-​adorable, but at least adorable. I can’t get over how the staff knows each couple that comes in by name, and seems genuinely interested in them and what they desire.»
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«Okay, this is not the GREATEST wine in the world, but at these prices? I’m going to lubricate my way back onto the bus I dread being on. The manager is kind enough to want to show me what goes on in the back and let me peak at the wine while its fermenting with the oak chips and skins floating in… gotta figure out how to walk straight enough to not get cut off…»
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«I can’t believe it, I want to give this place 5-​stars. I have never seen such amazing customer service in my life… not just to me… but to everyone who walked in. That one lady (Laura?), she’s got spark. It was fascinating and fun being here, I still don’t like the ambiance as much as I want to, but the warmth from the obviously repeat customers (one couple seemed to attend religiously and was very familiar with the wines), and the staff… it feels pretty warm in the good way suddenly. The price per glass isn’t hurting and the fact that I, as a wine-​obsessed enthusiast, get to learn a little more about the process (if not even take part in it myself if I wanted — after all, this is a place you can create your own bottle/​batch in), wow, this place is growing on me… now to go detonate a bomb…»