The owner, Mark, was extremely friendly, outgoing and hardworking. This cute little place is on…read moresame land as his house, cows and some chickens. The female employee was also very personable and calm. We enjoyed several of the wines, but ended up with a red called Middle Child. Wished I lived closer so I could visit more often.

A great little winery! Serving a unique collection of wines, try the potato! Nicely located in the…read moreheart of downtown. Great staff that really know their stuff!

From the owner: We are a winery and only make wines. Our best selling wine for 2 years has been Potato Wine.read more

If you find yourself this way make sure to stop in. Its a quirky place with old fashioned Homemade…read morewine. Its not anything fancy. Staff were quite and didn't really give much direction. Like I said stop if you are in the area.

What a wonderful place to visit while in Iowa. We stayed here as part of Harvest Hosts and will…read moredefinitely be back. We were greeted warmly and were able to park the camper and get hooked up to electricity with some help from the owner, Bill. After getting settled we headed inside for wine tasting. Each wine flight comes with 5 wines of your choosing and there are plenty to choose from. We ended up with a bottle of the Crimson Pearl to enjoy while we sat and chatted with Bill, his wife Tammi and their daughter Amanda. The tasting room is large with plenty of seating, a comfy couch and a cute backdrop for fun selfies. They also have a small patio outside but it was too hot to enjoy while we were there. There are snacks available to purchase as well as lots of wine merch. I highly recommend checking this winery out!

Fun winery in an unexpected location. I went in with low expectations and several of the wines…read morereally surprised me. They had someone selling food and a really good singer. He atmosphere and wine and music made it a really fun evening. If you are around here stop in.

I absolutely love the Moscato ! Pineapple ..yum I wish I…read morehad bought more than the one bottle ... can not wait to go back and get a couple more !! Friendly black lab will greet you when you pull up . What a sweetheart.

Really cool place, great variety of wines, and friendly and knowledgeable people with a passion for…read morewhat they do.

I ordered a grapeskin pack and 1 liter box of red grape juice. Apparently, the owner only sells the…read moregrapeskin packs with a wine kit purchase. I immediately called to cancel my order once the owner informed me of this via email. He stated he had already shipped the grape juice and proceeded to verbally assault me, calling me illiterate and cursing. I told him to deal with my credit card company and hung up. A few minutes later, I received the following email from the owner: "Do you realize how much of my time you have wasted just because you cannot read! Pay attention! I processed the order, I contacted you, I went to the post office and mailed the item. Now I get to chase down your order, take it out of the package, screw around with processing a refund on your order and all because you have attention deficit disorder. Not to mention trying to get a refund out of the post office for the electronic postage already purchased. What a load of crap! Do NOT come back! I do not need your Mickey Mouse way of doing business!" Stay very, very far away from this guy and his business.

From the owner: Wine and beer making supplies featuring Cellar Craft, WinExpert and U.S. Elite wine kits and…read moreBrewer's Best beer ingredient kits. BlueStem Winery label wines are available in 10 varietals. Limited hours but are available most times even when closed by calling the store.

Definitely stop by and have some wine if you're in the area! We had a great time. Friendly…read moreatmosphere, delicious wine.

When in the area make sure to stop by here for some fun. I Met my Uncle Bob here. Sangrias and Real…read morewine in a old train depot I'm in! Thanks for the great time!

It's been 4 years since we stopped in but remember it like it was yesterday. The door was locked…read morebut there was a sign on the dirt that said to call. Within a minute the owner and her two grown children were serving us. We had great conversation while enjoying the delicious wine. We ended up buying two bottles to take home. We recently drank one and it was as good as we remembered.

Beautiful spot for a little wine tasting! We sat outside and enjoyed a wine flight. As first time…read morecustomers, a little more guidance would have been helpful. We didn't really know where to go or how everything worked. We didn't know or see a sign saying they sold charcuterie/snacks, until we found out after the fact. We did enjoy some of our wines & definately will come back & try more!

This is really a 3.5 star review. came here yesterday afternoon with some of my sorority sisters…read moreafter our spring alum chapter meeting. It seemed like the thing do after our meeting and lunch. It took a bit to get out there because it is on the north side of campus and Ames. I had actually never been here because it didn't exist when I was in college. Though there has really been a winery boom in the last couple of years. The winery baristas were able to explain the 10 different wines to us. It would have been amazing if they had all of the white wines because one was sold out. The deal of trying 8 1 oz glasses for 8 dollars is great. We ordered two of their cheese and charcuterie plates (later we found out this was all that they had made). The seating was not ideal and we stayed at the wine bar instead of trying other locations. There was not a tasting card given to you when you got your flight of wines so you had to really pay attention so you knew which ones you wanted to buy. The Iowa grape wines were for the most part great. However, the chardonnay grape that was purchased from California was not good. It either wasn't store correctly in the barrels or not a high quality. Chardonnay is one of the wines I have grown up drinking because my Grandma loves a good chardonnay and I believe I have 4 different bottles of chardonnay at home. Overall not bad place, just I've been to better wineries.