Reviews of Black Widow Winery (Winery)

Chase Caponero

Wonderful experience, the Phobia is to die for

Jenny Yuan

Very nice wine with wonderful service!

Darren Kuehn

Great selection of wines, personal and Informative. You will regret not stopping here.

Chris Brown

Staff were friendly and helpful. I found that generally their red wines feature an intense fruit concentration. Very delicious. Bought a whole case (doesn't happen often). Also their gewürztraminer was very nice. All wines I tasted were …

Mardi Dolfo-Smith

Great wine. Great service.

Angela Regino

Such a special winery. Even though most of the wines were sold out what we did try was amazing. The owner was very humble and you could sense his passion for wine and the area.

Stephanie Stuerle

Delicious wine and fantastic service from this family run winery. A beautiful location on the Naramata Bench.

Erin Wighton

This is my favorite place to visit on the Naramata Bench. The winery is beautiful, staff is super friendly and the Wine is my absolute favorite. If you haven’t been I highly recommend it!!

Ashley Bell

Wonderful small winery - their sparkling wine was amazing. I definitely recommend as they’re a small winery that sells out quickly!

T Spencer

great wines. great family!

chinmak

Smaller winery offering impressive experience. The gentleman serving the wines happened to be the winemaker himself. Dick was very friendly and willing to chat. Tried both whites and reds. Vintage One is my favourite - Syrah fortified with grape brandy custom made for this port style wine. Perfect to pair with dark chocolate. Unique.

Dayanna Platt

Amazing wines and beautiful location, very friendly service and have even had the opportunity to be served by the owner and his family who were very kind and knowledgeable. Unique boutique wine experience and one of a kind wines! Definitely worth going out of your way to make a stop here.

Lisa Olesen

Excellent service and wonderful wine. Especially the port!!

audrey clavet

(Translated) Accept walk-ins (without appointment), but little interpersonal skills, the staff are courteous but rather cold. Tasting fees raised with the purchase of a bottle (like most vineyards in the region). (Original) Accepte les walk-ins (sans rendez-vous), mais peu d'entregent, le personnel est courtois mais plutôt froid. Frais de dégustation levés avec l'achat d'une bouteille (comme la plupart des vignobles de la région).

Dasha Cherepennikova

Lovely tasting room, worth a stop!

Eric Sletmoen

This winery has some very delicious whites that they make - dry style, which is my favorite. Pinot Gris and Sparkling Web are two favourites! Beautiful boutique vineyard in sunny Naramata.

Pedro López Velarde

Very nice place, personel super friendly and tasty wines. The setup is very mice/industrial. Must stop

Brendan Shaw

One of my favourite wineries on the Naramata Bench. Would highly recommend trying their fortified/port wine!

O'Neil

Had a very nice and enjoyable wine tasting here. The staff was knowledgeable and friendly. Tasting cost can be waived if you buy a bottle. Did find one we enjoyed and picked it up. The tasting room has many oak casts sitting in it so has a elegance to me. They do have limited supply so they have had a good year and their supply of wines are almost out. Another month they figured and it would be done for the year. So if are wanting to get in do it sooner that later.

Katerina Steffen

Love Black Widow Winery and their amazing wines. Happy to be part of their Wine Club! Great service and absolutely delicious wines. Highly recommend!!!

Chris Dias

The dominant attribute of the Naramata Bench is how many of the wineries sit right off the main road and not down one of the many branching roads. A few like Bench 1775 have their own roads, though their Google Maps stars still claim them right on Naramata road. However, many you can see as you drive by, their parking lots just an expansion of the road without even a curb. What an amazing place to live as you casually pass Hillside, Quidni, and Black Widow. And what a challenge it must be to stand out among the giants. Smaller estate wineries only have their signature buildings and their passion, lacking the funds and/or infrastructure to build great monuments to viticulture. You’d think these would have blurred or blended together by now. And I admit that is a danger. In Osoyoos, with fewer wineries across a larger region, there stands a better opportunity for individualism. In Naramata, which is considerably more compressed, it falls on the wineries to make their presence known, usually involving some profound architectural testament costings millions of dollars. And there are such wineries to be found here—Terravista, Serendipity, and Hillside can all be seen within the pages of wine magazines extolling the breathtaking nature of their construction. Whenever a friend shares a post regarding wine on my Facebook, it’s about how beautiful the buildings are and not extolling how good the actual wine is. Family run estate wineries have an uphill climb then, with Black Widow’s issue exasperated by its location, only a few minutes’ walk from other wineries like Tightrope, Bench1775, Quidni, Ledlin, and the Hillside. So, it is noteworthy that given that my girlfriend and I have made two runs through Naramata wine country, Black Widow is one of the few wineries we visited twice. On our previous journey, over six days, we visited sixty wineries. That’s sixty wineries, not an exaggeration. We ended the trip with 120 bottles acquired. On our second trip, my girlfriend wanted to visit Black Widow to refill her stock (mostly involving their Red Back) while scored the 2014 Mirage fortified. The actual winery is simple, sitting atop an outcropping at most forty feet from the road. Cars park at its base with customer climbing to the main door. Inside feels more like an intrusion into a workspace. There is no division to conceal the mechanics of the wine industry—there sits a single wine bar in front of dozens of barrels and nicely polished fermentation tanks, all shrouded in shadow. A few décor choices help support the name choice, but in the end, the tasting room doesn’t stand out. No, the real draws are the people behind the bar and the wines they offer up. That Mirage, for example, is a fortified white spiked with grape brandy. I’ll let that sit for a second. Yeah, they make one barrel that ages for two years. Twenty bucks is a bargain. My girlfriend loves Black Widow…and she hates spiders. Like really hates. She’ll squash the first, but the second…recoil in horror forcing my intervention. Aragog? She’ll close her eyes. Shelob? Skips the scene. But she’ll scale those steps and pass through those gates for good wine. The passion of the winemakers can be easily found in the quality of their bottles. Black Widow stands out not in their construction but in what matters most. They got good wine.

Lisa J

Shared an extraordinary experience with the owner, who allowed my husband to photograph the grapes during a private one/one walk in 2018. In June of 2020 the owner recognized us as we returned to purchase more of his incredible liquid art. HIGHLY RECOMMEND

desiree caluza

This winery has the complete package- a rustic but elegant tasting room, nice and friendly staff, and excellent wines. James, who was the sommelier during our visit, was very engaging and made the discourses on grape varieties very interesting. I had the best Syrah in this winery, it was full bodied and yet it was so refined and had a smooth finish.My top picks were Syrah and Oasis, but everything was really excellent. Highly recommended.

Travis B

Great wine and the staff are super friendly and outgoing.

Brietta Stewart

Loved this winery for its quaintness. You get lots of attention from staff because the building is relatively small and can't hold large amounts of people indoors all at once. None of the wines I tried here stood out to me, but I enjoyed my experience.

Kristine K

Went on the weekend and tried two different types of wine until our server, James, stopped and started talking to a co-worker and went outside for a minute and pulled a group of about 8 people in. He completely ignored my boyfriend and I and we kept looking at each other saying it was awkward and what should we do. We finally stood around and after 5 minutes of just being ignored we walked out.

a sid

Small batch winery with a focus on quality and being true to their craft. Very knowledgeable and helpful staff, not pretentious. A great experience.

Julie P

Beautiful wines, friendly, easygoing service. I go every time I am in the area.

Randy Bertsch

Very informative and friendly

Steph Empey

All the wine here is delicious! The staff was wonderful. We had a great time tasting wine here,

Justin M

I had a great time and its a very nice place to experience and taste wines. I look forward to my next visit.

Lady Judy Clelland

Great wine. Very happy and friendly owner and staff ????????✔

Barrie Herod

Great host a very good offering of wines

Scott Baker

Really cool winery on the inside. Unfortunately we couldn't get in to do the tour which was a little annoying but the rest was great!

Brooke Reister

Lovely little family owned winery! Not a ton of options for wines but it was nice and quiet when we went and the prices were decent.

Rochelle Neels

Great wine! Shannon was super friendly and very knowledgeable!

Natalie C.

Positive tasting experience, this winery worth to visit.

Winston Lin

Great wines. The staff are very nice.

Quintin Blain

The oasis is the nicest easy drinking balanced semi sweet wine ive had in a long time! Fantastic