Average wine with poor service
I am not sure what possessed me to head into Napa a few weeks ago. Maybe it was just to see if Napa’s image has changed from the stereotypes I had given it in my mind. Maybe I wanted to take the tourist route home from the Alexander Valley. For whatever reason, I did spend a little time in a Napa Valley winery (gasp!).
Reading what $10 gave me, I opted for the $15 tasting. The wines were ok, but nothing rocked my world. The tasting notes read like a John Steinbeck Novel rather than something out of a PowerPoint presentation. To further drive home the point that I wasn’t going to purchase anything, the tasting fee was non-refundable upon purchase. So a $30 bottle of wine would essentially cost me at least $55!
As if that wasn’t a wake-up call to the Napa world, I was then handed a bill for my tasting and had to wait in an entirely different line that was already 4 people deep. I continued to wait while the solo cashier tried to get the person in front of me’s credit card to work. After nearly ten minutes of waiting, I paid for the tasting, took my receipt and went home.
