Topa Mountain Winery - OJAI

Wine 4/5Experience 3/5Overall 3.5/5They serve boxed food on single-use utensils/plates (besides wine glasses). the plastic knives were pathetic to cut the salami with, we asked for a real knife and the waitress sighed and said “sorry we don’t” indicating that it’s requested frequently.The “fantastic view” is obstructed for a majority of the seating locations by the pergola.

Wine tasty.Relaxing environment.Will definitely return!

What a lovely place to sit and relax! Misters and fans to keep you cool on a warm day. If you're looking for wines to drink straight up, these are for you. Very mild and smooth, both whites and reds. Cheers!

Discrepancies should be made and outlined in the menus in italics/bold I 'll get to this point in a bit. The lack of customer service was pessimistic and disappointing. We had a reservation and it took awhile for anyone to check us in, or anyone notice we were there. Once we were seated, the tables weren 't cleaned, or wiped down. There was still remnants of the previous party 's food crumbs on the table. Our waiter told us they would be back to clean the table up for us, but it took awhile to get to the point by awhile I mean 15+ minutes. One of our bottles of water had a hair in it. It 's a pretty warm day, and when the request for more water was made at the start to middle of our reservation was made, it took 15 to 20 minutes to get, and I had to walk constantly to the bar for water to be given to us. We ordered 5 flights per person, and we were told that they doubled two of our flights to save on the need to wash glasses, because if they gave us all the flights we individually ordered, they 'd have to wash and clean more glasses, and then we 'd be behind the bar cleaning glasses all day , that was never stated to our party. And that discrepancy should be stated in italics in the menu. That even if you made a reservation ahead of time, in a timely manner, the lack of preparation should not be expected. I am 100% sure that the parties around us were not treated in that form. We had a reservation made 2 weeks ago, where we paid our deposit, and you don 't have enough preparation to be able to provide separate glasses for every person, that is not hospitality, at all. That 's an unprofessional presentation and impression you 're making for yourself as a business. And I 've never had that be an issue, in any other vineyard/ wine tasting before. The experience was below average expectations. The wine was great. But the service was awful. It genuinely felt like, hi we are open, but high expectations, or average expectations of what hospitality should be with you, as a client won 't be met, we will be the bare minimum, and still charge you the same price. I 'm not coming here again. And you shouldn 't either, because that was the experience, of 6 people.

If I could give this place a zero star I would ! The wine was delicious but the hospitality was awful ! family and friends made a reservation for this place for the first time hoping it would be amazing but it was awful . There was a red hair in my water when I poured it into my plastic cup . We ordered 5 mixed flights. We only received four of them the server never clarified that the mixed flight was combined into four instead . When asked the hostess mentioned “ they didn’t want to wash more of the glasses” especially during a pandemic .