I was so disappointed by chateau st. Jean. I have ...

I was so disappointed by chateau st. Jean. I have been traveling to Napa and Sonoma for ten years and always want to stop at this winery because the location is beautiful and the wines are good. This time we had a terrible experience and probably will not go back. We decided to do a tasting which they refused to let us split, forcing us to spend more money. We were not allowed to pay for our gift shop items until after the tasting, again hoping we would spend more. The entire tasting felt like a sales pitch but a poorly done one. We were told certain wines weren t as good as others, an odd thing to do when you are serving us the wine. We were told one of the wine clubs was exclusively for doctors and lawyers, mind you no one asked our professions. The man doing our tasting was constantly pushing the wine adding comments like only four cases left which came across as pushy instead of peaking our interest in a rare, almost sold out wine. Additionally we had ordered the cheese board which no one brought and when they finally brought it, it was a sad excuse for a cheese plate with three small cheeses, a few olives and two dried apricots. Overall it was too pushy, the people were rude and the wine wasn t very good.