Winter's Hill Estate

Wonderful winery in a beautiful location. Staff are really friendly and helpful and provide a great explanation of each wine produced. Bring your own snacks and nibbles when visiting since they do not have a food menu.

We visited this winery about a month ago and it was a nice fall day, with the sun shining brightly! We had a great time and ended up buying a few bottles! One was an extra special Pinot for our daughter and son in law for Thanksgiving. Well, my husband (not knowingly) drank the gift! I called down there to ask where I could find it in town. Sadly, no where in town. My SIL was coming into town, that night and when I spoke to Rachel, she informed me that she would be off work by 3 and could run it by my house! WOW! How nice and completely unexpected! I was taken back by her willingness to go the extra mile for something like this! Thank you, Rachel! You outdid yourself, in helping us out in a situation! Blessings!~ Wendy

Our experience was fantastic. The tasting experience was very good as many of our questions were answered and we had fun. The wine is very good also. We sat outside on a beautiful day and ever saw hawks fly by. The winemaker also stopped by to chat. Great sustainable goals. Check out their wine pouch concept.

My husband and I were celebrating our Anniversary and went to five wineries in the area. There is a lot of good wine in the area but our best experience was at Winter’s Hill. Matt met us with a sparkling Pinot Gris. Oregon does their sparking wines well. Winter’s Hill had great Pinot Noir and wonderful white wines too. We joined the wine club and are excited for our wine shipments. The customer service is outstanding. Visit - you will not be disappointed.

First time visiting and despite the colder than usual weather in June, Matt provided a great wine tasting experience on their patio. The “Gonzalez” Chardonnay was extraordinary. We we impressed with all the tastings and will definitely return.

This is an amazing small intimate special winery. Our service was outstanding. The wines were so fun to try and we enjoyed the relaxed nature of the tasting. We’ll be back!

This is a gem of a winery and on top of the great customer service you get great wine. The wine is on par with some of the best Pinots Noir that is around. The entire group will make you feel like family. The wine is more reasonably priced compared to others in the area.

My wife, daughter, & daughter in law joined me on a visit to this beautiful place for a wine tasting. We were treated very well by the wonderful team at Winters Hill. Most importantly, the wine did not disappoint. The Pinot Noir Dundee Hills, the 21 Chardonnay, and the dessert wine stole the show. We did not leave empty handed and a case was shipped to the house! Worth every dollar!!

We accidentally booked our reservation for Monday and showed up on a Saturday Members Only event and the lovely people at Winter's Hill were so kind and let us do a tasting anyway. They told us all about the wines, made us feel like family, and when no Ubers or taxis would come get us to bring us to our dinner reservations, one of the lovely women from the vineyard drove us. The wines were fantastic and we ended up signing up for one of the memberships they were that delicious! We cannot recommend this spot and these people more!!!

The outdoor seating was pleasant and comfortable. The wines were fine, but not good enough to purchase. The server was friendly and knowledgeable. Definitely not worth $40 per tasting.

The owner is extremely ignorant and was very rude to me just for passing through on my bike. There is no indication that this road is "private", as he claims. I can't believe how argumentative he was with me for absolutely no reason. He argued that there are no "Public Property Signs" posted. You can't reason with a fool. I recommend any of the dozens of other amazing tasting rooms within just a few miles. Seriously, this man does not deserve your business.

$25 per person tasting. Robert guided us through all 5 wines at the start and showed us a cool palor trick to aerate the wine by rolling the glass on its side. Beautiful yellow tansy field. Undercover and dog friendly. 2016 was a perfect weather year for Willamette valley! Even saw a coyote in the field while we were tasting.

I've been wine tasting in the Eola Hills in Salem numerous times. I've been to the Dundee Hills only twice. That will definitely change. I absolutely adore the Dundee Hills wineries. It was only by shear happenstance that I even found this winery (I was searching for other wineries near Domaine Serene where we had a fabulous Yelp event). Was I glad I found Winter's Hill. Everyone at the winery was delightful. And the wine was incredible. The Pinot Noirs were fruity exactly how I like them. There was a great deal on Pinot Gris going on (6 for $60)--great price for a light, very drinkable white wine. A picturesque location near several other wineries. Friendly staff. Great wines. What more could you want?

A++++ experience! Beautiful wines with a view. My husband & I shared a tasting for $15. We were chatted up by the owner & winemaker which made it feel very intimate. Why you come to wine country after all, right? Bought 2 bottles of wine, which waived the tasting fee ($15). If you've ever wondered: what wine pairs best with a banh mi sandwich? The answer is Winter's Hill Rose ($25). Paired perfectly with our picnic lunch.

The view and ambiance was spectacular.... The service was really great. Even one of the owners stopped by to chat and offer us vine ripened grapes ready to harvest. The sparkling Pinot Gris was superb.

We are SO happy we stopped in to this family owned winery. The wines were amazing and we sat out side and were served by Ann, one of the nicest ladies we met in Dundee. We loved hearing about the harvesting that was going on that day, and having a flight out on the patio.

Top notch wines. There are so many fabulous wineries in the area but this one is definitely worth a stop. I'm not usually a Pinot fan but their pinots are always bold and flavorful. Their staff are kind, knowledgeable, and attentive.

We had such a great time at this winery. No fuss, super knowledgeable staff, and delicious wines. In no way was our experience over complicated with pretentious staff or other patrons- we had good conversation and a great time. Bought a couple of bottles and have recommended stopping by this gem to quite a few people. We were there on a weekday morning so no crowds. Tasting and bottle prices were on par for the rest of the region- wine was definitely better than a few of the places down the road.

Our first stop of the day on a Tuesday - not crowded which is how we like it. Not rushed. Very friendly staff (Julia) and owner. The Pinots were awesome and we bought a lovely bottle. Very nice patio to sit and enjoy the views.

Remember those obnoxious Ernest and Julio Gallo commercials from about ten years back with the yuppies, sitting around in some huge colonial villa, buzzed just enough to find each other attractive, loudly talking about nothing in particular, and sipping really shitty wine? It turns out people like that actually exist. I've never seen any of them in the course of my daily life, and yet whenever I go wine tasting in Dundee (which happens as infrequently as I can get away with) they're fucking everywhere. I usually have to take a few cyanide capsules with me, lest I fall into enemy hands. Considering the aforementioned regular clientele, the sterile, corporate surroundings most wineries feature, along with the pourers who are clearly reciting a memorized script, I think wine tasting might be my own personal version of hell. Dundee is less than an hour drive from Portland, but sometimes it can feel like a lot like California. Now, there are a lot of wineries in the Willamette Valley, and there are a lot of exceptions to the standard hellish experience. Winter's Hill is one of them: 1. Beautiful grounds, which they'll let you hike around on (see photos). 2. Sustainable farming practices that they actually know something about. (Ask the staff at most vineyards about sustainable farming, an they'll say something like, "It, you know, like, sustains, and stuff.") 3. Nice, genuine people; no snobbery at all. The aging yuppies (ouppies?) from the EJG commercial hate these people. 4. A barn. That's the tasting room. A big, red barn. You know, like you're on a farm. Not like you're in a fucking Starbucks. Oh, right, and the wine. Oddly, it's not really the most important part of the experience, since you can buy wine anywhere, and very often for a lot cheaper. They seem to take particular pride in their dessert wines, which I usually don't love because they can kind of punch you in the face, but theirs are more subtle, not so dominant. It's hard to be a good judge of pinot noir in a state that's drowning in it, but, generally speaking, if the pinot noir is good enough for Vitaly Paley to serve in his restaurant, it's good enough for me. I look forward to paying another visit; this time I may even leave the cyanide at home.

Made a trip out to Dundee for some wine tasting this Saturday. We hit up this tasting room as well as Vita Hill, De Ponte and Zerba. This is not a tasting room I would re-visit. WE got there and had to wait for the woman to arrive. They pour 4 wines which were just so-so and charge $10 for a tasting. If you buy 6 bottles you can get your tasting free. When we commented on that policy they said -"Domaine Druhin" does a case for a free wine tasting." Well they are no Domaine Druhin. I say save your 10 bucks and go up the hill to Vista Hills.

Another super experience at Winter's Hill! They have decorated for the holiday season, including a huge tree with a magnificent-yet-simple cork garland. I brought a small group of friends who had never been there before and they loved it!

Pretty views. Winemaker was pouring which was nice as they have more insight into the wines. We had my toddler daughter along with us and they were very accommodating to her. Bought some pinot noir to take home.

Great wine and great place to go for a wine tasting. Very friendly service. If you're in the area and actually want to meet a winery owner dedicated to producing great wine stop by this gem.

We arrived on horseback, tied up our horses at their corral and walked over to the main building. I really enjoyed the tasting experience here. The owners are really into their craft. We stayed inside and just did the tasting but there's a nice outdoor patio where you can enjoy a full glass if you choose. A nice variety of whites and dessert wines accompanied by nuts and chocolate. My favorite was the 2006 Pinot Gris Late Harvest.

UGH! Methinks not is right! I think this is what happened. Someone decided they wanted to get in to the wine business after watching the movie Sideways, they sold everything they had and now they are TRYING to make wine. Here is the problem, I don't think they have tongues, because all and I mean ALL of the wines were horrible. Even the dessert wine! The wine was tasteless, watery and they didn't have dump buckets so I HAD to drink every sip. Skip this one and go down the street to Vista Hills!

I truly have not had a bad wine at Winter's Hill. Their Pinot Gris is a nice light favorite of ours and the Pinot Noir has a full fruit aroma, a subtle oak flavor and a nice dry finish. I've talked to several people who have visited Winter's Hill and we all agree how great the Gladharts are. They are very friendly and down-to-earth, they are happy to share the details about their wines, and they clearly care about sustainable farming. Their vineyard and winery are just the right size to where they can treat every row and bottle with care.

I stop by Winter's Hill almost every time I'm touring the Dundee Hills. The wines are great, you're nearly guarnateed to have an owner manning the tasting room, and the atmosphere is rustic. The whole experience is what wine tasting should be: a community connection. The whites are often crisp and bright, and the pinots embrace the dundee terroir. The winery is about as far up the main drag as you can get in the Dundee Hills route, so it's a great place to start or end the day.

A great family-run winery. The staff are very friendly and the wine, though limited in selection, is all good. The tasting room is not much (just the barreling warehouse) but the outdoor space is very pretty and has a nice view. I recommend visiting!

We met the owner of this beautiful winery a 70 something-year-old woman. Just graceful and elegant and she served us are tasting. Her German parents originally bought the land and she and her husband decided to grow grapes eventually in 2003 they began to make wine. Their most current Pinot Noir is to celebrate their 50th anniversary of Marriage. If you look at the picture that I have attached see the label of the wine for the picture of them they were in Ecuador with the peace corp their late 20s. We bought a beautiful 2011 bottle of Pinot Noir and some delicious honey we also had just harvest

What a great place! I've visited a few times...enjoyed the experience each time, and especially the wonderfully refreshing Dry Rosé...my personal favorite. Its a beautiful vineyard that I often recommend to my guests...the pride they take in their wine from start to finish, make this family-owned vineyard well worth visiting.

Amazing tasting and view! They were extraordinarily accommodating and knowledgeable about the wines. Great, reasonable prices and friendly!

Excellent little winery at the end of the road. By far the best stop on our Saturday wine tasting route that we did. Service was impeccable, even got to try some of the fresh squeezed grape juice as we were there in harvest season. The wines were all good and we ended up with a few bottles. The owner was the one showing us around and doing the wine tasting. She was super friendly. I would highly recommend this place. Don't go to the big fancy places, you will find much better wines and service here.

Not dog friendly, if you do not like my German Shepherd dog you will get zero of my business! I often buy 24 to 2,800 bottles of wine per purchase but not from this winery.

We were at the end of our wine tasting weekend in Willamette Valley and debating whether to stop at one more before calling it quits for the day. We had just been to White Rose Estate and I saw the sign for Winter's Hill and remembered the good reviews online then found the Yelp check-in offer so decided to try them out. As seems to be a happy trend here, the owner-winemaker himself was pouring along with a couple other staff. Russell and staff were friendly and offered information about the wines as well as a bite of food to go with the first Pinot Noir. I was glad to try an older wine to get more of the tasting experiencing of a wine that has been cellared a bit. Oh by the way - check in on Yelp - you need to try the surprise offer! We bought a bottle, in fact. We liked all the wines - a pinot Blanc, rose, and 3 pinot noirs. There was also a dessert wine, which I tasted and liked well enough although that's not really my thing.

A great little family winery. Fantastic wines at awesome prices. We loved the Gris and also many of the Noirs. Hazelnuts were yummy too.

Really low-key facility and very nice staff person pouring. Part of my rating is influenced by the fact that this was the first tasting that wasn't $15...I think it was like $5 or something. It was waived with the purchase. These wines are 'patio slammers'. Just easy to drink every day wines nothing fancy. They also get bonus points for having a grab bag of wines at a SUPER deal.

I always feel like I'm on vacation when I come to Winter's Hill. Walking around the lovely vineyard property, spotting birds of all varieties along the way and returning to a picnic and a glass of one of their delightful wines doesn't get much better. The dry rosé is my favorite on a warm summer/early fall day and the pinot noir is delicious with any meal. The Gladharts are wonderful and knowledgable people on a variety of topics and going to visit them and drink their wines is getting to know Oregon at it's best.

One of my favorite of 6 wineries we visit ! Wonderful wine, wonderful people and great story. Love going places where you just feel at home.

I wasn't that into the wine, but the property is really pretty and the woman working in tasting room was so sweet. I do have to say that the reason we ended up here was because our wine guide book said they serve food. Nuts hardly qualify as food when you've had too much wine and need something else in your stomach.

I'm all about Oregon small producers and Winter's Hill is one of my absolute favorites. The best wines for me are always found at a small, family owned and operated winery like this one. I prefer to go to smaller wineries where I find the wine to be fantastic and you get the chance to meet the owners and winemaker. They are so nice and they will answer any questions I have about their vineyard. Their Pinot Noir is so delicious I bought a case! They are a hidden gem!!!

Great price point, Incredible service and wonderful wines. Fun even in the rain!

We have been to Winter's Hill many times and every single time the experience has been wonderful. Great Pinot Noir, refreshing Dry Rosé and crisp Pinot Gris. The view from the tasting room is just outstanding and perfect to enjoy a glass of wine. Definitely my favorite winery in the Willamette Valley.

Beautiful very friendly environment. Tasty, reasonably priced wines! My favorite is 2012 Pinot Noir but try them all! Bring a snack or purchase from vendors in tasting room. The family owned business makes you feel very welcome.

We visited for the first time this past weekend. I thought we had been to every winery in the Dundee Hills, but somehow we missed this one. We were delighted with the pleasant surroundings and the knowledgeable staff. Just the right mix of casual and informative. The wines were all well made, with a true sense of terrior. The red hills came through clearly! We will be back!