Feelin' mellow at Tomasello

Tomasello Winery

255 White Horse Pike (Route 30)
Hammonton, NJ 08037
(800) MMM-WINE


We wanted to check out a few wineries in the area as part of our AC excursion. We've been to Renault Winery a few times in the past and always had a great time, so we wanted to see what other wineries had to offer.

Tomasello was close enough to visit, and was actually en route to Valenzano Winery, which was having an all-out festival this weekend. Food Lovers' had high marks for Tomasello, which has been around since 1933 ("one of the state's biggest and best").

The tasting room is cozy and the staff are very friendly. There is quite a bunch available for tasting, including twenty-three dessert and sparkling wines, a bunch of reds, and a bunch of whites.  The tastings are free (this was amazing to me), and since we had the tasting room to ourselves most of the time we were there (we got there very early), we took our time trying out their different wines. 

The wine list was intriguing since there were a lot of less commercial varieties available that we did not even know about.

I liked their reds mostly.  We ended up getting a bottle of Chamboursin ("a French hybrid made in a fruity Beaujolais style"), a medium-bodied and medium-spiced red; claret ("a semi-dry red [varietal with] DeChaunac, Villard Noir and Landot Noir grapes"), which I thought was rather sweet but DJKung and his dad really liked; and petit verdot, which, after several sweet wine tastings, had a very heavy and chewy tobacco feel. 

DJKung's dad posing in front of some winning wines.

The dessert wines were pretty sweet and very very fruity.  I think these would make great gift wines, and I'm pretty sure I've seen the blueberry and raspberry wines in my local wine store. 

We also picked up the "New Jersey Wine Country Passport," which lists thirty-two different wineries in the Garden State.  Whodathunkit?  We're definitely looking forward to trying more Jersey wineries!!!