Reviews of Island Winery (Winery)

Cindy Stroupe

Probably the worst winery experience I have ever had. Both customer service and the wine was horrible. I would not recommend wasting your time on this spot.

Tammy Stuck

Decent wines. Customer service was very lacking with the lady who served us. Try Carolina Tasting room at Coligny plaza for good service instead.

Karen Russell

Great choices

LaShawndra Levitt

The fresh different taste and the friendly staff

Daniel Calzadilla

Great wine to try out and to enjoy while in town. Best local wine with terrific pricing. You will not be disappointed and you’ll be walking outta here with a few bottles. Stop by if you get a chance, try the cheese platter... you will want to come back again. We love the people here, so nice and helpful when doing the wine tasting.

Rick Brumm

Great local winery with very reasonable tasting price. Great welcoming team working there. Finally made it there after living here for two years. We really enjoyed the wine and bought a couple of bottles. Will be back.

Kennan Miller

Delicious wine, great indoor atmosphere and a nice quiet place to enjoy

Bruce Evans

Great friendly help and nice selection of wines. Off the beaten bath but we'll worth visiting for some good tasting wines and friendly service.

trisha gabriel

The ladies were very nice and informative. I'm looking forward to enjoying our bottle of BlackBerry wine!

Tawanda Dickerson

The wine was very tasty and the staff were cordial.

Adrienne Qualls

Great people and great wine! We always make sure to stop in whenever we're in town.

Jonathon Wymer

Not your typical winery, but they had some great nontypical wine and very friendly staff. They were very accommodating to our 2½ y/o who we had with us. They gave her her own little bowl of snacks and a water while we did our free tasting.

Elle Kunisch

Very friendly and knowledgeable staff. Our party sat around and talked past closing time, by accident . The staff was patient and did not let us know they were closed. Oops and thank you

Monique Pigg

Super friendly. Large tasting selection for only $5.

Jennifer Lechner

Basically turned us away because we were 15 minutes away from closing. Six people willing to spend money.

Elle Blair

We had a bit of a complex start to our experience. As you all know, when vacationing on an island, you don’t always make plans well ahead of time. Some activities are based on the weather, as you will notice by the flow of customers when you visit here. We made our couples package reservation about 3 hours before we arrived. The website does say that the invoice will be sent WITHIN 12 hours, and the receipt sent right away. I called, and they said no problem, you can still come in, just show the receipt and respond to the email that you will be coming sooner than the invoice might be sent(they weren’t sure exactly what time the invoice would be sent WITHIN 12 hours). When we got there, the attendant gave us a lot of grief about this and wouldn’t let us proceed. I don’t understand why you wouldn’t send the invoice right away on an island(island/vacation time mentality?), or be reluctant to serve someone when they have a receipt in hand, and have already spent $75 on your wine, likely to spend a lot more. She told us to come back tomorrow. After explaining our tight schedule, she eventually came around and let us continue to taste with just the receipt of sale because we were leaving the next morning. We came really close to asking for our money back right before she complied. Good thing she did, because they would have been out $300 on an wine sale. The service sucked, but the wine was decent. The cheese board was nothing special. 3 domestic cheeses, a few crackers, and a handful of grapes. With the recent popularity of charcuterie, this is pretty bland. If you open a bottle of wine that you bought, you must finish it and they refuse to re cork or give you the cork back. Note: only one of the wines has grapes that originate on or near the island(found wildly). ALL others are imported domestically. You aren’t really buying anything unique except the bottle design.

Frank Davis

Very helpful staff at the tasting room. Quite knowledgeable regarding their products. I highly recommend the staff. I look forward to my next visit.

Erica Warren

$ tasting and if you buy a bottle it comes off the price! Good wines. Welcoming owner.

Tracey Callinan

Very fun place and friendly staff! We made a day of the brewery, winery and distillery down the street.

Dan Lambert

Pretty good wine for a small winery! Several good reds available.

Chris Mauldin

We did the wine tasting excursion... The blueberry, muscadine and margarita wines are our favs. It's well worth a try.

Archie Sims

Very nice selection of wines, we had to bring six bottles home it was so good

Eric Rittenhouse

Not what we really expected. This place was a store front. You walk in and there's a bunch of bottles and you can get some wine tastings. You make your selection and you leave. Other places we've been to are more of a true winery where this location is more of a store front as said before. The wines were unique and flavorful. Our opinion is that they may cost a little more than they are worth. Most bottles were in the range of $20 (approximation). The staff at this location were very nice and friendly.

Cindy Greiner

We had a wonderful afternoon. The selection of wines included something for everyone. We loved the "Low Country Specialty Wines" which you can only find here. The staff was very kind and made the experience fun!

P-4

Great local find..... Educated in wine... You'll be pleased with selection, price and experience

Mary B

Fun place to check out. The staff & other visitors were fun.

Mary Hardin

Great fun. Staff friendly and helpful and other customers fun to meet.

Tristan Stroupe

The worst wine I have ever had. Honestly worst experience we have had. We live in the mountains and visit wineray's all the time. We walked in the door and first thing was someone asking us for the $5.00 tasting. Then no explanation on the wine we were trying other then telling me that it was from an oak barrel. They were not rude, but will never go back or recommend.

Rick Gibson

It was interesting to visit a local winery producing from fresh grapes imported from around the world. Muscadine wine is always a good local favorite for me and the Riesling was crisp, refreshing and not too sweet. Taking a few bottles of those home with me this weekend.

Cecili

Fantastic people that explained the wines and helped us with our tasting. They feature distinct and tasty wines that were fun to taste. I also like their deals of the cost of the tasting is discounted from any wine purchases. Glad we stopped by!

Arron Miller

I planned to take my wife here for her birthday. We got to the store and told them we wanted the island experience for two. We were told that was only available online (WHICH IS NOT STATED ON THE WEBSITE). The employees said this has happended several times, but the owner told them she believes the website is correct. I was then going to purchase the voucher online. I was that since the owner wasn't in it would take at least 10 hours to email the certificate (that is online).

Jessica Muccilli

Wonderful

Kate B

First of all, this was not at all what I expected based on trips to other wineries. It, as others said, is a store front. It isn't cute (well, the sign is cute, but that's about it). You walk in and there are a few tables, and another room with wine barrels and a few more tables. You can try wine for free, which is nice, but awkward to stop in, have a few sips, and hit the road. We split 3 flights of wine and a cheese plate for $10, which wasn't bad. Had the peach wine, the blueberry wine, and one that was similar to Sangria. All the wines were very good. Most of the cheese was pretty good, served with some Ritz crackers. We sat in the back room, which would've been cozy with the barrels, except through them you could see random supplies - paint brushes in the sink, shovels, etc. Not a bad way to kill a bit of time, but don't go with high hopes.

Nova Firefly626

Delicious, so friendly and knowledgeable!

Calamity Ganon

Great wine and atmosphere, the employess were friendly and the prices are hard to beat for the quality.

James Cbesterman

Very good & informative!!

Walt Seifert

Very friendly with six complimentary tastings. Two favorites reds, the Carmenere and 2014 Mission.

Laura Ballard

Rude staff wine was awful not worth your time

Tom Jones

They have a nice tasting room and a second space with barrels where you can hang out. The winery has made some interesting fruit based wines which were so good we purchased several. The tasting was all free for 6 wines which was very nice.

mirific29

Great place for wine tasting, nice and quiet, very good wine selection and quality, the lady was very knowledgeable and pleasant, I definitely recommend this place!