Camelot Cellars

My husband and I spent last Thursday night at Camelot. We went in to attend a pet portrait event that was held there. We ended up tasting a a few flights of wine and buying 4 bottles to take home. We will also sign up for a wine making class for my husband’s birthday this year. It was lots of fun. I’m seeing other reviews saying they had bad service. It was very busy when we were there about 6:30 pm, We found the service to be good, the owner spent time telling us about the wine and classes. We Will Be Back.

Tonight, we brought friends of ours who wanted to try Camelot since they’ve never been there. Horrible service. We had to explain to our friends how the flights worked. Had to go to the bar to order our drinks. We spent over a 100 dollars for a bad experience. All wines tasted watered down. Wasn’t even busy. The service was rude. If you don’t like your job, quit.

We visited today and were not happy with the service. The only place to sit was in the back room which was fine but we had to go up and order our own food and drinks. No one came to take our orders or check on us the entire time we were there. Our table spent well over $ 100 and will not be returning. At all other wineries we have been to they wait on their patrons. Not worth a visit!

Horrible service. As I sit here and wait on my cheese tray that I ordered over 20 minutes ago in this completely empty space. They stocked the entire time and never even came to check on us. After I sip this last bit of this flight, I will definitely be leaving and never returning. So much for girls night!

We went last Thursday for the the pet drawing, they have you sign up on-​line to reserve you space, I signed up for two drawings by mistake but only needed one. The event was from six to nine and we arrived around 7:05 and were told we had eight people in front of us but would be able to get our sketch done. Figured we’ll go to the bar and drink some wine while we wait, the bar-​tender wasn’t overly friendly but was prompt and courteous. My wife and I both order bottles of wine and noticed the neither bottle had a label, which I thought was against the law, but I could be wrong. The wines were both kind of on the sweet side which my wife enjoyed more that me, the wines weren’t terrible but weren’t anything to write home about either. The seating at the bar is some sort of steel seats which are very uncomfortable. We ordered a cheese plate which comes per-​packaged, which had a film on the cheese and cold bread not sure if I was just starving but it wasn’t too bad.
The worse part of the night is the lady who had you sign up comes to the bar area calling out names of people who are left mind you this is five to nine, after calling two others she gets to us and states you’ll be last. Great after two long hours on hard uncomfortable chair we’ll get our dog sketched. Then accross the bar we see someone asked then is there turn, we could read lips telling her she will be the last one. The lady now comes over and inform us that she was signed up ahead of us and will be last and they won’t be able to get ours done tonight but if you leave our email addressed she will be in contact with us and we can have one done via email. I realize stuff happens but to tell us we are last and then get bumped is bull shit, the artist hand was about to fall off according the the assistant so she wouldn’t be able to due anymore! Really you couldn’t have mustered up one more sketch, suck it up butter cup! Needless to say I’m not sure if this goes against the bar, the sketch artist but I think both, if you’re going to have an event and make someone wait two hours before telling them sorry you won’t be able to participate is ridiculous. I wouldn’t go back to establishment if you paid me, I wasn’t two hours of my life for nothing and couldn’t have been more pissed off, thanks for ruing my evening with your phony event, I’m sure you’ll get some more suckers in and sell a couple more bottles of wine with a promise of getting a sketch witch obviously isn’t guaranteed. DON’T PLAN EVENTS AND LET PEOPLE SIT AROUND FOR TWO HOURS BEFORE TELLING THEM SORRY NOT GOING TO HAPPEN TONIGHT!
You’ll never see me in your establishment again and I’ll gladly share my feelings towards your establishment with anyone that will listen.

Went here for a Unilocal Elite event and once my schedule clears up, I definitely intend on going back for some wine tasting. Janine, owner, was great! It was so interesting learning about the work she has done to transform the business. The wine was also great. We played a wine tasting game where we had to figure out the wine type and where it was from. That was both informative and helpful. The staff was friendly and attentive. Great experience.

I have literally driven/​walked past Camelot Cellars a hundred times and somehow never noticed it… until this week! My husband and I stumbled on the winery while on a (much needed) date night.
Janine, the owner, was tending the bar and educating guests on house-​made wines. She was savvy, brilliant and an impressive business-​woman. We learned that they make and bottle all of their wines in-​house AND also sell across town to plenty of the big box stores (Kroger included).
The cellar/​bar had plenty of seats, great lighting and was very warm. Janine encouraged questions and made learning about wine fun and educational. I’ve been to wine tastings before that felt stuffy– this was the opposite!
Apparently they have lots of themed nights– from Comedy night to Magic night. I am sure we will be back!

I came for the mini spa night and had a wonderful massage. My daughter got her nails done too! The Unilocal flight for visiting was cool. I wish you could have chosen the wine but it was a nice assortment. Sweet wines are my favorite. They had strawberry lychee traminer that was awesome. This place is buzzing with a bunch of women sipping wine. I would love to stop by another time.

We went here to celebrate a birthday and I could not be more dissatisfied with the service we received. We called in advance and made a reservation however, upon arrival, we were seated at half of a table in the middle of a fundraising function from another party. It was awkward and uncomfortable, they shouldn’t have taken our reservation.
Anyways, the owner was tending the bar so the lady behind the front desk became our server. We wanted to try a variety of different wines and asked some questions about the wines. She was visibly annoyed with our questions and knew none of the answers. She finally got the owner to come over and answer our questions. After choosing our wines, my friend tried her wine and said it tasted watered down. I tried it and agreed. The owner just shrugged, sort of laughed, and walked away.
They offer three «small plates» here but they were out of the grape and cheese plate so we ordered the meat and cheese plate ($ 16) and the veggie and hummus plate ($ 9). The veggies were stale and the portion of hummus was 2oz in a plastic ramekin. The meat was 4 slices of deli meat with 8 quarter slices of cheese and a half a piece of stale bread. What a rip off.
At the end of it all, I spent $ 30 for a horrible experience with one happy hour glass of wine and a very small wine flight. I would not recommend this place to my worst enemy.

This was the worst wine experience we have ever had. We brought in 16 girls for a bachelorette party and it was terrible. For 6 SMALL tastes of wine we paid $ 35 a person. The tasting was barely the equivalent of a glass for $ 35 each. We asked for the dry sampling and got half sweet and half dry. I would NOT recommend anyone go here. The service was not friendly and it was really a buzzkill to start our night. It also took over an hour to sample 6 glasses with no commentary in between waiting for wines. Choose another place for your party!

The wine was fine. Standard fare. But the service here is awful. The workers hear you order, but don’t acknowledge that you said anything. Eventually I got one of them to laugh and joke with me, but it was like pulling teeth.

EDIT: I found out their wine is made from concentrate, which I didn’t even know was a thing you could do with wine. But that explains why it tastes so bad.
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I’ve been twice– both times for the comedy night. The wine is TERRIBLE, but admittedly I know nothing about wine. What I THINK happened is that they have a «make your own wine» service where people add weird fake flavors to already-​made wine, and that’s what they served us. I can’t think of any other explanation.
The first time I went I ordered two different glasses of wine. They didn’t even taste like wine; they tasted like cough syrup. The second time I went, I ordered prosecco knowing I didn’t like their wines. It wasn’t carbonated! How can you even call that prosecco? I also tasted my friends’ orders both times I went so I have tasted 7 of Camelot Cellar’s products in total. One «wine» was fine, but the other 6 were very bad.
This is coming from someone who is perfectly happy with boxed wine. I won’t be going back. I went for the comedy nights, but I can just support local comedians at a better venue.
Oh, and on top of bad products, the lady behind the bar acts like you’re a huge burden when you put in an order.

I came to celebrate their 10^th anniversary celebration. So much fun! It’s quite an accomplishment. The owner was friendly and attentive. There were some appetizers (cheese platter, hummus, crackers) and chocolate cake of course! Happy hour special was for $ 5 glasses of wine from a listed selection. My favorite was the strawberry lychee. Tuesday’s and Wednesdays are no corkage fee for bottles. I am a big fan of their fruit wines. The space was very inviting with a mix of bar stools, tables and couches.

I’ve been here twice, and so far my experiences have been nothing but pleasant. The past two times, I came with a couple of lady friends who are not wine aficionados by any means. Each time my group of friends was there, our servers were very pleasant and more than willing to give us pointers on what to order. I particularly enjoyed the sweet white flight (I’ve a little bit a of sweet tooth). I think the white cranberry pino was a favorite among my group. The cheese plate was a little expensive and I definitely horked down most of it before my friends got to it, so I would recommend eating beforehand. All in all a nice place with some really tasty wines.

This was my first time visiting with my friend who wanted to personalize two bottles of wine for a wedding she was going to. The younger girl (and I feel bad that I did not get her name) was very helpful and pleasant. The owner? Not so much. There were the total of 6 people around the tasting area/​bar so it wasn’t busy. ANY question we had? She told us to ask the young lady. She was rude and not friendly at all. There were two bridal parties that came in and she wasn’t friendly with them either!
The (2) flights and the cheese & fruit plate we ordered were delicious and I IMMENSELY enjoyed their new Black Cherry Pinot Noir. The price was even better. I was expecting it to be higher and I would have paid since it was THAT good. $ 12.95 is not bad at all.
It took FOREVER for them to put two labels on the wine my friend ordered and that’s primarily because every one she picked? Wasn’t available.
The other issue? All of the gnats and flies and the sink? OMG it smelled like rotten cheese.
I wanted to make sure I got my bottle of wine and well I did after 20 mins with NO label. The owner just placed it on the desk and in a bag.
Overall the products were great. The service from one hostess was great. The owner? Sour. Perhaps that’s just her disposition. But if you are working with the public, at least try and fake a smile and genuine interest in the paying customers.
We decided we had no real overwhelming need to go back. Plus with or without our hard earned money, they will stay in business.

Don’t waste your time here. My good friend hosted her bachelorette party here and we were all very excited to have a fun time. However, our server was extremely rude, offensive, and outright unfriendly.
I understand that bachelorette parties can be overwhelming, however considering the amount they charge ($ 29.50 for 6 oz. of wine during a tasting including the ‘suggested tip amount’) you would think the service would be friendly.
Not only was every person’s pour a different size every time, to taste 6 wines took 90 minutes. If we were enjoying glasses, I would appreciate this, but between tastings, our server would work on the computer or just ignore us outright. It just wasn’t an enjoyable experience.
As someone who usually loves the wine tasting experience, I would never recommend this place. While the wine was decent, the experience and commentary from our server wasn’t.
This place is pretentious and overpriced. I’m someone who tries to enjoy every experience and see the glass half full, but this place put a damper on our evening. Don’t waste your time or money!

I’m not a wine snob by any means; I’ve spent many a precious dollar on 2 buck chucks. The BF and I go through a lot of wine though, and I know what I like. And California has such an abundance of wine that I am definitely spoiled. Camelot Cellars was my first glimpse into what Columbus had to offer as to the wine scene.
And what a bland scene it is! I felt like this place was trying too hard to be so hoity-​toity and a purveyor of amazing wines, that it fell short. All show, and no substance. The chilean malbec we ordered left a bad after taste, while their #1 seller (as I recall) was saccharine and overpowering.
What really got me depressed, however, was the cheese and charcuterie plate, which came out covered in saran wrap. I was frowning while shoveling through that catastrophe! The bread was cold, while the cheese and charcuterie were similar to those you get in party trays from Costco. I’ll admit to having a pretty high standard for cheese and charcuterie, but step it up! At least toast the bread or something! I’m sure there’s great cheese and charcuterie readily available in Columbus… I’ve never had to unwrap my food from saran wrap before at a restaurant, or even at a street stall in Asia.
So yes, of course, we all jay-​walked across the street to White Castle and ate till we were full.

The wine is insanely delicious. I recommend the Strawberry White Merlot. It’s sweet, but not overly sweet. The wines aren’t priced too badly. Ranges of $ 11 – 40.
The main downside of this place is they don’t seem to have any A/​C so it is HOT. The wine bar area is pretty tiny. And the customer service is terrible. The bartenders act like you should be pleased they even notice you exist, let alone the fact that they have to fill your drink order. If this place didn’t have great tasting wines I would give them zero stars.

I just spent two hours learning about wines and being treated like a princess. Everyone should join me for «wino-​Wednesday»
They have an extensive wine offerings and a really knowledgable staff. I have been in a few times and I have always been impressed. The flights are fantastic!

The artist John McKenzie was in town and his daughter is a friend from work — so I joined a group of peeps for drinks and chatter. If you haven’t stopped in to take a look at John’s art — you need to — I adore the total abandon when it comes to color and over all explosion of emotion.
I was having a nice African Cab by the glass on the owners recommendation– it was something new and really delish!
I think the only draw back to the place (if there is one) is not serving food, but they do cheese plates and some charcuterie — so if you are really there for the wine, you can always hit one of the many great dinner spots for more grub after you’ve had a bit of the vine.
I’ll be back! (I sound like the terminator)