Hells Canyon Winery

Such a cute little winery! True décor of the house is insanely funky and nothing like you’ve seen before! It gives the place a lot of character. The wine was okay though… not my taste but everyone’s is different! The ladies working here were so nice and awesome. Only complaint is that there wasn’t much room to sit, so if it’s crowded you’re kinda screwed (it was way too cold to sit outside). Also they give you quite a big tasting which is nice!

I first discovered this winery when I went to the Sunny Slope Wine Festival. What really attracted us was the unique labels on both the Hells Canyon and Zhoo Zhoo bottles. Hadley was serving at the booth and gave us some wonder history of their winery and the stories behind their labels. She gave me direction to their winery and we went back a few weeks later to do a tasting. What a cute quaint place. Colorful tables outside where you can enjoy a view of the Owyhee Mountains. We ventured inside where we were greeted by Leslie. We were told it was an open house and we could sit in any of the rooms. We chose the library where they had bottle of years past lining the wall. Leslie came in and spoke to us giving us another history lesson on their place and the wines. We each did a flight of 3 with very generous pours. Where was not one of their wines we did not like, In fact they were so good we signed up for their wine club. For $ 40 a month you get one white, rose and a red. We now go back every month to pick up our wine and have a little picnic. Every time we go back we take a different neighbor to introduce to our favorite winery. Every one of the staff is wonderful and makes us feel very welcome. Leslie knows me by name after just a few times there and always makes me feel like I am part of their family. This place is wonderful!

I took a group of girls for a Bachelorette party to this winery. I called them in advance and let them know exactly when we would be arriving and told them I would have approx. 30 girls. Sounded like they were happy to have us.
Upon arrival, they were very upset that I only had 20 girls rather than 30 (as though this was intentional). Rather than being happy we were there and welcoming us to their small winery, we were treated rudely and abrasively by the staff. Many of the girls in my group purchased wine and went to sit on the grass which made the staff mad when they opted not to do the wine tasting so I no longer had 20 people tasting and now only had 14.
Again, still not happy we were there. Then our «tasting» was just 6 wine bottles (only 2 choices, but 3 of the same) sat on our table and the server walked away. When we tried the first wine we were not impressed so we asked if you could try something else rather than finish 2 more bottles of wine we didn’t enjoy.
We were then told it was probably just because we had been drinking wine all day and don’t know what we are tasting. At this point, I had no patience to continue so we took our wine, finished our tasting and went on to finish what was an excellent bachelorette party except for the experience by the owner and staff at this winery.
I would avoid this winery as there are so many better ones in the area. All the others on our winery tour that day were amazing and couldn’t be happier that I brought a group of 20 girls (and potential long term customers) to their wineries. None of us will be going back to Hells Canyon and we will make sure all our friends and family know how bad our experience was.

This winery takes a different spin on wine tasting. They don’t serve tastes so much as they serve flights so it’s up to you what you select.
On this day we selected two different flights of three. I selected the wines and the YS selected the reds.
The flights offered enough wine so we could both taste several tastes of each wine. This was good as we went back time and again to our favorites. At the end we had selected four wines that we really liked.
We were able to sample their wines in a nice living room décor and it was relaxing with a nice view of the vineyard. The atmosphere was more like going to a friend’s home and sampling a wine than going to a vineyard which I really liked.
Hadley and Jocelyn the two sisters that own the winery were very attentive and helpful in serving and helping us select our wines.
Their wine was so nicely priced that we ended up with a mixed case for $ 125.
They had some really cute glasses that they served their wine in and I was going to pick up a couple of them, however, I forgot when we got to selecting our wine.
Check this winery out. We learned of their fine wine while dining at Muse Bistro (see review).
Located off Chicken Dinner Road (not kidding) and Symms Road a peaceful stop and a beautiful view.
I’ll be back again when I’m in the area.