Guest Book

Here are some examples of some of our previous personal, customized wine tours.

Best Friends Wine & Beer Tours

The best tour guide in Niagara. Sid, New York City, New York

Sherri-thank you so much for the great Tour you gave us. It was great to see the smaller wineries & the wine was wonderful! I loved being out in the country & your happy personality made me feel like I was out with another friend. Thanks for making our wine tasting tour so special & the pictures
are great!

Girls Day Out

I just wanted to let you know that us girls had such a wonderful day with you at our Wine Tour
Very informative & fun!
We will definitely be back & we will definitely recommend you to others!

Sincerely,
Anna - Kitchener, Ontario

Romantic Couples & Couples Getaway Tours

We have a good time and appreciate your wine tour guide's hospitality at Hidden Gem Tours and passion for your wine country, it was truly awesome. I hope our paths do cross again though as we enjoyed our time together.Thanks again for everything, her personality and passion was contagious and we recommend highly Hidden Gem Tours. We definitely want to visit the Niagara wine country again and will look you up if we do. Kevin & Wendy from Strongsville, OH

Just wanted to thank you for last weekend, we had a great time. Wine, beer and great company, how can we go wrong!
Thanks for the nice card, and gifts it was very thoughtful of you.
I know we will be back to NOTL one day soon enough, possibly next year and we will be in touch with you personally.
A special thanks from me Richard for making this trip hassle free Thanks Thanks and Thanks

I wanted to send a thank you e-mail to you! There were 4 of us who took in your tour 2 weeks ago and really enjoyed ourselves our tour guide was quite friendly and knowledgeable and I have already referred your company on to a few friends who are going to be visiting the Niagara region shortly. Thanks again, Eric Toronto, ON

Thanks Sherri! We are still raving about your tour! I left one card with the bnb owner and one with the other guests that were staying at the same time as us!

Your tour is still the best one we ever experienced:) Jenn & Jeff

Thanks so much for being such a genuine and lovely person. Alejandro and I really enjoyed the time we got to spend sitting back and visiting the vineyards. Each one of them had something unique to offer.
When you get a moment, I would love to see the photos from our trip :D
All the best to you and your family and hope to see you once again on our next trip to Niagara.
Big hug,
Ana & Alejandro

Our wine tour guide, Sherri Oppenlander, President of HiddenGem Tours. Multi-talented, she is very knowledgeable about wine-making, knows the area and wineries very well, is a gourmet garde mange cook (!!) and is very entertaining. We had a great time! Dinner was AMAZING! Sherri thought of everything...the perfect ending to an incredible day! Thank you so much, Sherri!

Thank you so much for sending the photo's through. Emma and I had a wonderful time with you and really appreciated how you made us so feel welcome and most importantly, how you personalised the tour for us, in particular fitting in the brewery college for me. I am sorry to say but I haven't been back to Canada since and may not for some years, however my cousin is now living there so hopefully she will be able to keep a steady flow of Canadian wine flowing across the pond. Thank you again for a wonderful time from both Emma and Alex

Ultimate Corporate Tours

Hidden Gem Tours organized a great staff play-day for us in September. Our tour guide Sherri provided a lot of local knowledge and we felt that we experienced more than we would have on our own. The vineyards that we visited were very different and the cellar tours were excellent. All in all a fun day out!
The FSI Team - Toronto

Bachelorette Fun Wine Tours

I Just wanted to send you a note of thanks to Hidden Gem tours for making Brookes Bachelorette a success with your wine tour. All the girls loved it and couldn’t stop talking about how much fun they had! It was such a great variety of wineries and we were able to learn so much valuable information. We really appreciated how you were able to customize it for us and how you went out of our way to make our experience memorable! I will certainly pass along your information to any friends we have coming to visit the area. Once again, thank you so much for helping us create some amazing memories. I have included a few pictures for you! Enjoy and take care!

For my bachelorette party, I really wanted to do a wine tour with my girlfriends. I had never one done one before, but we decided to go with Hidden Gem because of the convenient shuttle service that is included, and the competitive price. We were not disappointed! Sherri was fabulous, she arrived on time, was organized and provided the best service, even taking pictures of us throughout the day. We were able to go to some unique smaller wineries and received exceptional personalized service at each stop. I would highly recommend Hidden Gem for any small or large group wanting to have a personal, fun experience!
-Jen L.

The best wine tour I have ever been on! Loved the knowledge that was shared by our driver about the local wineries. Truly did show us the higgen gems. Will be back for sure - Cristy, Wainfleet, Ontario

Birthday Tours

Yes, we also do private tours when you're here on business or in this case Oliver's 30th birthday. Once you get to Niagara Falls and want to visit the country just contact us and we'll take you around to our local hot spots and

Thank you so much Sherri for the photos and the great day
We really had a great time yesterday.
Thank you for keeping us organized and showing us some great wineries. I really enjoyed the lunch.
I will totally recommend you and Hidden Gem Tours.
Colleen
-Hamilton, Ontario

"Sherri our tour guide at Hidden Gem Tours was very knowledgeable about wines from the grapes to the wine process and the final product. She brought us off the beaten track to the small local wineries. She was very friendly to us as guests and to all of the winery owners as our hostesses. She made for a very pleasant afternoon for 4 sisters to share together touring local wineries. Thanks for a great day Sherri!!!!

Girlfriend and Family Getaways

Went on a fabulous wine tour in June 2010. Host Sherri was fun and accommodating. I very much recommend taking one of her tours!
Marina - Alberta

We all enjoyed the tour a lot with Thomas (our German Tour Guide) at Hidden Gem Tours, and we really appreciated your effort. My dad liked it a lot because he had the right person with Thomas to talk about all the technical processes and terms. It was a great tour. Kathy had a lot of fun too and she said that it was her best Niagara wine tour ever. She told her friend and she seemed to be very interested and might come back to you for a tour. I will definitely recommend your tour.
Christian-Toronto+ Parents -Trier Germany

While at a conference in Niagara Falls in June 2011, a few of us in the conference group were lucky enough to get linked up to a great Tour Guide named Sherri from Hidden Gem Tours--and thank God we were!It's hard not to have a great experience in Niagara Falls, but to make it truly memorable, you need the help of an expert like Sherri. Not only is she truly personable, she also takes the time to make the tour specific to your needs. She took us to some of the best wineries and also took a detour to bring us to visit the “Smallest Church” in the world after someone in the group inquired about it. Her lovely Diamond Gourmet Tour recommendation was spot on and we definitely had the time of our lives!!! She is a true professional who clearly is passionate and knowledgeable about what she does. This tour is worth every penny! and I highly recommend her services.
Claire Morris - Ottawa, Ontario

Girls Day Out

Just want to thank you for a great day! We had a terrific time and the choice of wineries were absolutely perfect! Look forward to doing this again with you.
Thanks,
Kara - St. Catharines, Ontario

Sapphire Gourmet Lunch & Wine Tour!

Last weekend was fantastic. Thanks for everything!

Joanne