Little Bear Winery, Tennessee, United States

5John B 5:00 PM Jul 27, 2020

Wine tasting
After a long day of wondering the main drag in Gatlinburg, we decided to was time for some wine tasting. This was a good choice since we just completed an eighteen hole round of mini golf with a two year old. Did I mention it was so hot even satin was looking for some AC. Anyway the Little Beat Winery has two of their three tasting tables open and due to Covid (F that guy) their was probably a longer line than their would have normally been. When we got to the table the wine was good and our pourer Broderick was amazing. Little Bear does have a couple dry wines which apparently is a rare commodity in Tennessee. Our pourer was funny and gave good descriptions of all the wine and it’s history. Overall even with Covid restrictions in place, I would recommend Little Bear to anyone who enjoys wine that happens to be in the Gatlinburg area.

4Ashley M 5:00 PM Jun 4, 2022

TL;DR Check this place out, it's awesome, wine is great, took longer than we expected, had some issues personally with o
My group of seven had six drinkers, we stepped in just to look around and were immediately invited over to a free wine tasting by Stav. Five of us decided to take him up on his offer and I (as a driver and a lightweight) decided I would take a sip from my boyfriend's samples to be safe. The process as I gather it is that you get a list of all the possible wines and you can pick 4 to sample for free, or all of the options for a relatively reasonable price that I no longer remember. Once you've drunk all of your wine samples, you get a condiment cup size shot of their alcoholic slushies. Stav took great care of our group and for the most part we were really enjoying ourselves, so much so that what I think we wanted to be a less than 5 minute look around a shop turned into probably a 20+ minute experience (not so great for our non-drinker friend who went down the street to get ice cream thinking we were right behind him). All the wines were great, Stav was really funny and each couple walked out with a bottle of wine (of which only one made it home at the end of our vacation a few days later, they were that good) having had a great time. I'm only not rating this a 5/5 because Stav was very misogynistic and directed any misogynistic joke or jab towards me. Thought nothing of it, sometimes I'm overly sensitive, tried to let it roll off my back, but when were talking about this experience after the fact, I started talking about some of the things he said to me that some of my group hadn't heard and they were pretty appalled by the behavior so I knew I had not been sensitive. Seriously though, he was super cool to everyone else and we all had a great time otherwise, he just enjoyed picking on me, I guess. 10/10 wine sampling, 100/10 wines, 10/10 experience with Stav for the drinkers in our group, just a 2/10 experience with Stav for me personally so I would still highly, HIGHLY recommend checking this place out.