The location is off the beaten path. In fact, the location is not near anything you will be at other than to see the Palm Hotel across the street. The Hotel is dark and somewhat dated. But......located down a flight of steps towards the right of the casino is a place that opens, I believe each day at 3:00 PM called The Cellar. If you want to learn about fine wines, if you want to taste wines, ports, ice wines that you would never have the opportunity to taste otherwise, or if you want to just pretend that you are a wine connoseure, this is the place for you. They offer flights for tasting which include 3 small tastes. These flights are divided by categories and range from 15.00 per flight of 3 to 99.00 per flight of 3. Yes, 99.00. I tried the 99.00 flight of Red,( I believe it was cabernt...it has been a year or two), and thought I had died and gone to heave. They were delicious. If you can believe this, Opus One was my least favorite. Now, I have to expalin myself. Of the 3 I tasted, Opus was my least favorite. If you had put Opus with 2 others, I may have found that Opus was my favorite. It was by no means bad at all.....I just like the other 2 better. But, I was tasting wine that if was served at a restaurant, would have been in the 300.00 - 500.00 bottle range. So.......a treat for 99.00. On another visit, I sampled the port flights. That day they were offering in the flight I chose, again the 99.00 flight, a tasting from Thomas Jefferson's cellar. Yes, THE Thomas Jefferson, Where else could you do this?
The problems you may find with this treat is that they can sometimes become very busy, and thus the wine education you could get, may not be there that day. I usually try to get there as they open, when they are not busy and then have my one on one education. One thing to do that I did not mention.....order some cheese and crackers, or pate, or something to eat with your tastings. You really do need it. Though it is just 3 tastings....sometimes more if you feel like it.....you need something to keep you grounded.
As an aside. sometimes, I have just talked with the servers at the bar, and asked them which is their favorite reasonable bottle of wine and had tha instead of a flightt. I have never been dissapointed. Just wish it was not so out of the way as I do not make a special trip to go there. If it was at a better location, it would be one of my most favorite things to do in Vegas, but then it would not be a find and would be so busy it would lose its character.