What an amazing place. The staff are amazing. Juan took such great care for us. He did a great job explaining the wines and treated us like royalty. I could go on all day about this but I highly recommend you stop in and see for yourself.
Amazing! Ingrid was an exceptionally talented, experienced, and knowledgeable host. Everyone's taste buds are different, so I will just say the wines were great. The showstopper is the bacon pairing, though!! Delicious! I highly recommend this establishment. I especially like that they offer their membership and/or purchase and ship options but are not pushy at all. I can't wait for the owners restaurant adjacent to the tasting room to open! Oh, they have a vegan option for pairing with the wines if you are so inclined.
Amazing! Ingrid was an exceptional and knowledgeable host. The wine tasters incredible! The charcuterie board was delicious. I highly recommend this establishment. They offer their membership and/or purchase and ship options but are not pushy at all.
We first discovered Priest Ranch a number of years ago when we stayed across the street at the Villagio Hotel. We really enjoyed the experience there - the small winery feel, the delicious wines and the friendly welcome of the staff. We ordered a few wines to ship home and fell in love - we became members and now have a steady supply of wine coming to the house. Fast forward 5 years and we made another trip to the tasting room yesterday for the bacon and wine pairing experience. Again, we were welcomed like family by Melissa and Jose. They made us feel so welcomed and treated us like VIPs. The atmosphere is so warm and welcoming, the wine is our absolute favorite (period!) and the bacon and wine experience was a fantastic way to spend an afternoon. After heading out for some dinner, we even found ourselves back there for a pottery event - where my wife left with a couple of beautiful custom made bowls. We are here for a week - we'll definitely be back again before we head home to NC.
A MUST SEE!!! 💯🇺🇸❤️ At 6pm on July 3rd, 2020 (closing time) the waiter welcomed us instead of saying “we are closed” THANK YOU! very welcoming and cozy environment - gorgeous!
One bottle of Napa Valley Sauvignon Black 2018 $22. That’s not it - Priest Ranch gives you as a souvenir a small wine “Napa Valley” glass - precious!! Keep it going!
Great wine and bacon parings!!! we would have never thought about a wine and bacon paring. This is a culinary explosion, with pork belly style bacon paired delightful with awesome wine.
*The experience*
We arrived at a charming tasting room in Yountville, and although seated inside, the french doors were wide open and it was a wonderful day. "The Caviar & Bubbles Experience", it was explained, was a chance to drink Priest Ranches only sparkling wine along with an ounce of caviar, a curiously remarkable amount of crème fraîche, and a bag of Kettle chips.
Although the website doesn't specify, we were served Plaza Baerii, siberian sturgeon caviar, for those of you who care.
*The thoughts*
The Brut Rosé is definitely the star of, and the point of, this experience. I enjoy caviar immensely, and dry sparkling wines pair well with it.
But everything else after the bottle is opened feels like an after-thought. This isn't a "caviar experience". It's an opportunity to drink an entire bottle of Priest Wine's excellent Rosé with some caviar and chips, and that's ok. Really. But there was really too much crème fraîche and not enough chips.
I wanted to take my wife wine tasting for her birthday, Our group was 5 adults 2 kids. We were walking by when we were happily greeted by Jose, he welcomed us in and had a table ready for us in no time. Everything he brought out to us he thoroughly explained (even in Spanish so my wife would understand). I have never tried wines as good as these, literally every single one was so flavorful and unique. It truly was an amazing experience and we were so blessed to have Jose be our wine connoisseur, we walked in as strangers and left as family. Currently waiting on baby #2 to come out to be back asap!
The wine and bacon experience was fantastic. I mean, it's bacon and wine so obviously that was going to be a good time. Still, I was prepared for it to be a bit gimmicky and not expecting amazing wines. Wrong. The wines were as good or better than any other Napa Valley wines I've had. The bacon was delicious. The service was friendly and knowledgeable. Highly recommend.
Unfortunately the experience here was not as promised. We were welcomed friendly, but the waiter didn’t tell us much about the wines. All that they told us, was already on the menu… It was highly overpriced. I would not recommend you to go to this place. There are so many other tasting rooms in town.
