Tasting rooms are terrific! There's nothing like being on the premises where the wine is made and, if you're lucky, chatting with the people who created the wine. Then there's that magical, mystical hard-to-explain phenomenon that happens when you tip your glass. The wine just tastes a little bit better when you drink it at the winery/near the vineyard where the grapes were grown. Lots of theories about that but no scientifically-established reason.  But we don't care.  If wine tastes better...