Ceja Vineyards Wine Salon Lounge & Art Gallery

We used to be a big fan of Ceja but our last trip to the tasting room was a disappointment.  When we had visited in the past, we had received a lot of friendly and personal attention, as well as some extra wine pours during the tasting.  Now, the tasting room is a lot more commercialized, with "flights" for sale that include the wines that are not on the tasting list.  So if you ask to taste something not on the list, they ask you to buy the flight that has that wine available.  This time around, our pourer seemed tired and bored, and rattled off a rehearsed description for each wine.  The kicker, though, is not only the fact that tastings are not waived with a purchase any more, but that you can't get just one tasting waived.  You have to buy TWO tastings, and they are only waived with a purchase of $100 or more.  Talk about a ripoff.  We had purchased one flight, one tasting, and two bottles of wine, and I had to haggle to get even the one tasting fee waived.  That is not the hospitality I remember from Ceja.  Also, the quality of this year's wines have declined from previous years.  Too bad, but I think we will be trying other options during our next trip to Napa.

Ceja tasting room in downtown Napa was our first experience and our best after visiting other wineries.  The host was very knowledgeable and great conversationalist he also took the time to educate us and mapped out other wineries to visit.   We liked it so much we went back to thank him.  His suggestions were spot on!

I recently open a Yelp account to share my experience  at The Ceja Vineyards Tasting Salon in downtown Napa. Ii visited the tasting salon on May 26 and wrote the reviiew on May 27. I did enjoy the wines and the great service by Edgar. Today I discovered that my previous review of Ceja and another review that I did for Bask restaurant in SF are been filtered. I do not know the reason for that. The Ceja review was a long one, but that is the way I write. Shame on YELP, I will be canceling my account shortly. I just want to let you know what is going on. I wonder why are they filtering good reviews? Anyway I did enjoy the delicious Ceja wines and the awsome setvice by Edgar.