+ Three Heavily Wooded Layouts: This course has 29 baskets that give players two 18-hole courses and an option to play 9 holes only. Baskets are Innova Discatchers. The bright yellow bands are easy to see from a distance.

+ Challenging Course Design: The main elements that make up this course are technical woods and elevation. Several blind holes and par fours add to the challenge. There are also a couple short water carries.

+ Secluded Park Setting: This course is never crowded and the majority of holes are away from other popular areas in the park. The dense deciduous forest is especially beautiful in the fall and winter months.

+ Extra Amenities: Aside from the disc golf course this park also has a playground, a picnic shelter, restrooms, walking trails, and a lake that is a popular fishing spot.

+ Local Club: The Kanawha Valley Disc Golf Club hosts quality events. The Kanawha Valley Regional is among one of the biggest sanctioned tournaments in the state and boasts an excellent players pack along with fun and challenging courses. The club also hosts weekly leagues during the spring, summer, and fall. Random draw doubles rotates between the Kanawha County Courses is typically scheduled for Tuesday evenings. Doubles is a free league with an optional ace pot.

+ Location: Wine Cellar is minutes away from Charleston - the capital city of West Virginia. There are plenty of options for food, shopping, entertainment, and lodging nearby.

+ Proximity to Other Courses: Wine Cellar Park is close to the City Park which has a beginner-friendly nine-hole layout. It is also within 30 minutes of several quality courses including Valley Park, Redeemer, Coonskin, and Little Creek.

- Tee Pads & Signage: All holes all have some sort of tee pad. The majority of these are concrete although some are paving stones and a couple are aluminum frames with grip tape. All of them provide adequate room for a run-up. Signs also have some variation in quality although all the holes are marked with accurate distances. Be sure to look for blue and yellow arrows to help direct you. I would recommend bringing a map or a local to help navigate the course.

- Course Conditions: This course can get overgrown (especially in the summer months). Some of the rough can be especially punishing if you get off the fairway. Beware of briers and poison ivy. Aside from the parking area there aren't many other chances to find a rest room, water spigot, or trash can in the park. Plan accordingly and pack out all that you pack in.

- Lost Discs: There is a real possibility of losing your discs here. The longer course plays around a lake and although there is only one water carry you could find the water on several holes. Due to some thick rough you will definitely search for discs at some point during your round. Keep an eye on your drives and use spotters on the blind holes to prevent lost plastic.

Difficulty in Terrain: This course is not for beginners. There is no real break in the tight, technical nature of this course. The fairways are indeed fair but your will undoubtedly need to bring your scrambling game to help you get out of trouble in order to score well here. The elevation is also worth noting. Be prepared with plenty of water and a snack on your back. Leave the cart at home.

Multiple Layouts: The two 18-hole layouts share the same holes from #1 to #7. The 8th tee can be played to the left (for the longer and more challenging layout) or played to the right (for the shorter par 3 layout). Players can also still play the original nine hole layout by playing holes 1,2, & 3 before turning right and proceeding to #12 on the short course. Finish out the original nine-hole layout by playing #12 to #17.

Local Recommendations: If you need a quick warm up, check out the nearby City Park which has an easygoing nine holes you can knock out in a half hour or less. Be sure to get yourself a Tutor's Biscuit for breakfast or lunch. This local restaurant chain is a West Virginia institution. Also consider The Cold Spot for wings, salads, subs, and a great selection of draft beer.

When entering the park , make sure you look to the right . The course is not in the main area of this park , but you can see a basket ( #18 ) and the actual wine cellar on the right with limited paring there , but plenty on the other side of the street . There are 2 paths , one closest to the road that is actually for walkers or joggers , and the one that is closest to the cellar which leads you to hole one . There were signs pretty far out from the park and entering it telling you you are on the right track for this course . After reading DGR and looking over the front page of this course , it is obvious that this course is improving . There were actually 2 sets of tees for most of these holes instead of 1 ( don't pay too much attention to hole lengths ) . The baskets are Discatchers and in pretty good shape , the signage is plastic coated paper , but very informative with hole # , distance and flight path . The tee pads are kind of strange . They are a large board that looks nailed into where the wood base of the old tee pads were , but they worked okay . No sun screen needed here . You will be in the shade 98% of the time . The elevation here is pretty extreme . If you are not going uphill or downhill , you are probably on the side of a hill . The course seems well taken care of except for a few places where the rough has grown up and out of hand . This course plays tight and technical , where all of the holes except #18 are in the woods . I don't know how much play this course gets , as I was here on an early Sunday morning and was the only one on the course for my 90 minutes . Course design looks pretty solid . I might have removed a tree or 2 to make a better fairway path on a couple of holes , or created an alternative path for opposite hands . Course length is reasonable , especially from the longs . You will have to create with some of your upshots and drives on this course . The woods itself is a nice look . I played the course in about 90 minutes solo for a first timer . A foursome will take 2 1/2 hours or so . There were amounts of good holes . #6 was a drive starting on the lowest part of the course and the only hole where you have to throw over the walkers trail . It moves flat a little left to right over a creek that was dry at the time , then elevates uphill at the end to the basket protested by a gully and trees . #13 is a short blind shot that you either have to wrap around to right to left , with the downhill and trees in play , and a hill that is a more direct route that you can chance over the top . #17 is a downhill blast through a tight treed fairway that you will overshoot unless you luck out and hit a tree at the bottom . As good as some of these holes were , a few left you scratching your head . An example would be #5 , a downhill angle shot to a small green where the basket is . Overshoot or leave it short to the right and you are down the hill . Both the basket and mid fairway are protected by rows of trees where you have to hope you find a seam to get through . An oddity for this course was that there were stacked rocks on a bunch of these holes , either deep in the fairway or up against the pole of the basket . I guess it adds to the scenery , but my approach on a couple of the holes bounce off of them and my disc ended up downhill . There is still some fun factor here because of the shot variety and alternate tees to mix up your game . Navigation here flows pretty well . Lots of arrows on trees help . . I would still print a map . One of the confusing areas on the course is the transition from #13's basket to #14's tee . You have to backtrack on the fairway about 75' then use the path that goes up Signature Hole : Also a great finishing hole is #18 . The tee sits on the far left of the #17 basket , throws across a clear flat plane , keeping your drive to the left of a mando , then you have to throw down a treed fairway to a basket protected by the row of trees that were on your right .

#1 Safety . The walking path that is utilized only comes into play a couple of times , but I can see where a ricochet off a tree or an off course drive could make it a bad day for a jogger/walker. Also , and I don't know why , but there is a bench at the bottom of the hill on #17 . Yell or look before you throw . . #2 inclement weather . I cannot see playing this course during or after a rain . Footing could reach the impossible . #3 Navigation . It can be tricky in a couple of spots where several paths paths branch off . Disc Risk : Medium . Since the course is wooded and the elevation so extreme , some blind shot drives to the basket will create rollaways and ricochets that could leave your disc 150' + off course . Add that to some of the overgrowth , and you might have problems leaving with as many discs as you came with . Take turns spotting if with a group . There isn't much to do with amenities . No benches or trash cans . There are some tables o put you bag on at the tees , though . Pretty cool . Please carry out what you carry in . And bring bug spray . The little guys here will eat you alive during the warm weather months . I also want to warn you , as I am not a fan of throwing on holes that you have to land on the Sides of hills . Be prepared during your round that a good drive or upshot/putt could clip a root or a small rock and you could be penalized with your disc rolling behind a tree ( Like mine ) 100' downhill .

This course really teetered on a 3-3.5 grading . I am going to play this course again next year at this time and could move it up . The course should have a better score next time . I ran into a few spider webs on the course , and not off the fairway either . That normally means that the course isn't getting enough play . Especially as much as nearby courses Redeemer , Little Creek and Coonskin . As long as the weather is dry and you don't mind a lot of elevation , this course is a good play ( Locals ? ) .You must bring your mental game to this course to score well .My Recommendation : A good compliment to the more open air Redeemer Park , this course might be a little undersold . I like it better that the woods course at St Albans . Thank You , City Of Dunbar and the Parks Dept. here for letting me play. If you are a local , traveler , intermediate , or casual . this course is a good enough play . Play It !!

-Beautiful wooded area with nice hiking trails.
-The Wine Cellar itself is pretty cool to check out.
-Parking is right near #1 and #18. (could use a sign showing where to find one from the parking lot though)
-Fun mix of turns and up and down hill
-you will hike a lot

-you will hike a lot. (positive and negative)
-very rough in the summer; it gets very overgrown (especially 12-15, 17...)
-definitely not for beginners, I consider myself recreational-amateur, and its still a tough course.
-IF it's been raining, avoid this place. Mostly on an incline walking, easy to slip in mud....i did. lol

I've yet to play here in good conditions. Summer is tough too where it gets overgrown. Only #18 is out of the woods; and it is really soggy in that field too. Take old shoes, watch where you discs land, and bring bug spray.

Ideally, I plan to try this course in the fall. Plants should be mostly dead, less bugs, and maybe dried out terrain. That would make it more enjoyable.

-Talk about technical! If you're looking for a course that really challenges you to be accurate on every single hole.. This is it!
-Good parking and nice scenery
-Good Baskets
-Easy to navigate for the most part
-This course provides an adventure. You really feel like you're out in the wild on this one. This isn't just a course at a park. This is a course on a mountain where you'll feel like you're enveloped by nature.

-Not for beginners (which can be a good thing, but important to note)
-CRAZY elevations on this one. You will climb the mountain, and most paths aren't stairs. The path is marked.. But you have to hoof it. You will be tired at the end. Give yourself 2 hours to play this bad boy.
-REALLY easy to loose a disc on basically every hole. If you're with someone you might want to send a scout ahead to see where discs land

Really fun course, but difficult because of the elevation. Worth your time, but probably not the best travel stop if you're traveling with less experienced players.

This course offers tight fairways, challenging elevation changes, and guarded hole positions. The course is short, so it can be played relatively quickly. But what it lacks in distance, it more than makes up for it in forcing shot shaping and touch shots. 18 is a cool finishing hole, across a creek and hidden by trees.

Tee boxes are natural, they aren't level, and some aren't lined up with the fairway which doesn't make much sense. I don't know if this was on purpose or not, but it's kind of frustrating. Roll-aways are common and the course can feel cramped at times. Wish some of the holes brought the lake into play, to break up the wooded monotony.

Since this is my home course and only two minutes from my house, I play it a lot and know it fairly well. Wish they had alternate hole positions to change the pace, and create some new challenges. The inclusion of long tees on more than two holes would also be a plus. Have to thank the KVDGC for creating all of these courses. The area has some real potential and I hope more people from out of town check out these courses in the Kanawha Valley.

This course was very fun to play! It wasn't too far off of the interstate, and was quite easy to find. The holes were challenging enough, yet very fun to play. The walk was absolutely beautiful, and the entrance into the disc golf course was very beautiful.

It was rather easy to lose a disc, it took some time to find them and could be difficult to retrieve them. The course is only nine holes, at the time we played it, but there are more baskets.

This was one of the funnest courses I've played. I would love to return and play it once it is finished!

Details are laid out very well except for the tee signs.

As you enter the park, there are 2 signs. One pointing to the lake and the other to the
Disc Golf course ( to the left of the old abandoned Wine Cellars). Follow the sign and the blacktop path to another signpost saying hole #1. Follow that up the hill a little more and # 1's t will be there along with a bench.

Very steep course, but they have several benches dotted along the way so one can sit a spell.

Don't really need a map of the course as it's very well laid out.

Fast greens

Tight course

Innova baskets make location the basket much easier in this tight wooded course!

Did I say, attention to detail. Jim has a lot of rocks placed stratigically along the course. This work both makes it look more atractive, but also helps in the process to stop some errosion <applause, repeat>

# 3 is a heart beater as you through straight uphill with the basket at the plateau of the hill. Good flight lines, but miss them and you'll pay dearly as it a very steep slope when your off the fairway.

# 7 has a mando, As it protects # 8 tee box and it gives you a beautifull ACE run towards the basket. Go for it and go long, again a steep slope to transverse to the basket.

#9 (new version, to be completed by next week said Ben <co-designer, volenteer> is going to be sick. As one would throw down the very steep hill and then fade to the right and over a creek with the basket hiding behind a grove of trees <but the basket is just hiding from across the creek, there's plenty of room for putting once you get there).

Decent sized tee pads.

Didn't have a a layout of the hole on the tee sign (but was told by designers that would be corrected).

No cement tees, but ground up black top surface (not really a con, but it depends on what your preferance is, I guess.

A very narrow road taking you to the park, Please becarefull as there a lot of younger kids playing about at the apartments as you start up the hill to the course.

smallish parking lot.

Meet the designers Ben, Jim and his son on hole # 6. I introduced myself and they then did the same. They asked me a couple personal questions about OB and mandos and I told them of my thoughts.

They told me that the new tees signs will have a more descriptive layout of the hole after future expansion (as they plan to add another 9 holes in the near future

I'm going to keep an extra eye on this course and come back after their next expansion phase is completed as from the work they done and what they we're talking about doing in the next phase, is going to make this course one of the better if not the best course to play in the Charleston area (IMO) Keep up the GREAT work people. I'm impressed-------------- - +

Good technical shots
Not hard to find
Clean area
Very nice baskets

Tricky to find first hole
Can be muddy in paths from hole to hole
Long walk from 8 to 9

This is a nice little course to play fi you're looking for some technical shots through the woods. The sides of the fairways are still thick with some brush so keep an eye on your disc if you hit a tree. Future development can definitely be made with the park, especially would be nice to see some holes between 8 and 9 so there isn't such a long walk without tossing a disc.

-Variety of shots due to vegetation and terrain.
-Asphalt regrind tees (similar to gravel).
-Nice Innova baskets.
-Scenic park setting.

-No long open holes (me being picky).
-Has some flat sections of trail that get super muddy.

My original review stated how this course suffered from many of the holes being too short. I have taken that back due to the constant and awesome work done by the designers to improve the course. They have lengthened (and improved) a couple holes and should have the full 18 ready in the coming months. I'm really excited to see what the rest of the holes will look like when they're done. Since this course's inception, it's done nothing but gotten better.