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Day tripping and wine sipping
This article for Vox Magazine provides details on several mid-Missouri spots for wine tasting.
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Day tripping and wine sipping
- 1. A B OU T V O X C o l u m b i a ' s c i t y m a g a z i n e : I n p r i n t e v e r y T h u r s d a y a n d o p e n l a t e d a i l y o n t h e w e b . C o p y r i g h t 2 0 0 6 . A l l r i g h t s r e s e r v e d . About Vox Privacy Policy D E P A R T M E N T S Cover The Scene Editor's Letter Movie Listings News & Insight Feature Arts Endnotes Books Calendar F R I E N D S O F V O X S o m e o f o u r M i s s o u r i a n p a r t n e r s . log in | register Missourian VOX Classifieds Archives SearchLetter Arts The Scene Movie Listings Endnotes Dining Guide Personal Essays Music News & Insight Books Feature Calendar Multimedia The Guide LIKE VOX? SUPPORT US WITH KACHINGLE! A D V E R T I S E M E N T S Day tripping and wine sipping Uncorking the best Missouri Vineyards page 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 Back to the vineyard. J’aimeEMAIL BOOKMARK PRINT Related Articles Does a glass a day keep the doctor away? How to prevent the dreaded hangover How to taste like a sommelier A Grape Glossary Wine Tastings A lesson on labels How to buy a bottle Lush land A wine soundtrack Spruce up your wine deco Comments on this article BY SARAH SMART MAY 3, 2007 | 12:00 A.M. CST Living in a state with 67 wineries, you probably think it’s impossible to hit every one of them. How can you possibly choose? Some of them boast awardwinning wine; others have caves to drink in and wagons to ride; some have beautiful blufftop views. But whether you love treating yourself luxuriously, crave an adventure or only drink the finest wine, you’ll be sure to find a few places to sip while you embark on a day trip through Missouri wine country. FOR THE LUMINARY Adam Puchta Winery and Stone Hill Winery FOR THE GOURMET Les Bourgeois Vineyards, Native Stone Winery and Summit Lake Winery FOR THE ADVENTURER Cave Vineyard, Crown Valley Vineyard and Charleville Vineyard Winery Contact an editor with corrections or additional information J’aime 6 Vox Magazine (Kachingle Anything)
- 2. log in | register Missourian VOX ClassifiedsArchives SearchLetter Arts The Scene Movie Listings Endnotes Dining Guide Personal Essays Music News & Insight Books Feature Calendar Multimedia The Guide LIKE VOX? SUPPORT US WITH KACHINGLE! A D V E R T I S E M E N T S Day tripping and wine sipping ... adventurer Uncorking the best Missouri Vineyards Cave Vineyard, Ste. Genevieve, 180 miles southeast of Columbia COURTESY OF CAVE VINEYARD The wine you’ll drink at Cave Vineyard was harvested from 14 acres of grapes. Charleville Vineyard Winery, Ste. Genevieve, 161 miles southeast of Columbia COURTESY OF CHARLEVILLE VINEYARD WINERY After a long day of driving (and drinking), a weekend stay at Charleville’s bed and breakfast will recharge your energy. Crown Valley Winery, Ste. Genevieve, 161 miles from Columbia J’aimeEMAIL BOOKMARK PRINT BY SARAH SMART MAY 3, 2007 | 12:00 A.M. CST FOR THE ADVENTURER: SAINTE GENEVIEVE If you love to drink wine but crave something more extraordinary than a standard wineanddine vineyard, start at Cave Vineyard for a glass underground, then head east to Charleville Vineyards and spend the night at Bruckerhoff. These two wineries will be enough after you spend so much time on the road. In the late morning, after you’ve awoken from a heavy sleep, drive to Crown Valley for a wine wagon romp with wild animals. 21084 Cave Road Ste. Genevieve, MO 63670 5735435284 Calling card: The winery is named for Saltpetre Cave on the vineyard’s property. The cave functions as the wine cellar, tasting room and picnic area. Reason to go: You can drink wine inside the cave. After you purchase a bottle, you can walk about 10 minutes to the cave’s opening, or you can ride the shuttle on weekends if you’ve already had a lot to drink. Best varietal: The 2004 Traminette is an interesting nose of licorice and rose petal taste and won a silver medal at the Missouri Wine Competition. Food and other fare: Bring your own picnic basket; there is no restaurant. You can also ask the staff to pack you a cheese and sausage basket to take on your cave adventure. Price range: Bottles cost between $13 and $20. Reward your designated driver with: a scary ghost story inside the cave. Map it! Cave Vineyard 16937 Boyd Road Ste. Genevieve, MO 63670 5737564537 Calling card: The tasting room and patio are located in a bucolic, rural setting above the Saline Creek Valley. Hiking trails run nearby. Reason to go: Sleep it off at the Bruckerhoff Cabin, open Friday and Saturday nights. The cabin is a refurbished bed and breakfast originally built in the 1800s. Although rickety in outside appearances, the cabin is sturdy and has large, handmade cedar log beds. Best varietal: The Francois is a mixture of several different red grape varietals. It is lightbodied and dry and goes with just about anything. Like many of their other wines, it is aged in Missouri oak. Food and other fare: No restaurant here, only sausage and cheese samples. The Bruckerhoff Cabin does send you off with a large country breakfast, though. Price range: Free tasting. Wines range from $12 to $25 a bottle. Reward your designated driver by: not setting the alarm clock the next morning. Map it! Charleville Vineyard Winery 6 Vox Magazine (Kachingle Anything)
- 3. A B OU T V O X C o l u m b i a ' s c i t y m a g a z i n e : I n p r i n t e v e r y T h u r s d a y a n d o p e n l a t e d a i l y o n t h e w e b . C o p y r i g h t 2 0 0 6 . A l l r i g h t s r e s e r v e d . About Vox Privacy Policy Staff Listing Comments Policy Contact Us Community Guidelines Advertise RSS Twitter Facebook D E P A R T M E N T S Cover The Scene Editor's Letter Movie Listings News & Insight Feature Arts Endnotes Books Calendar Nightlife Dining Guide Music Multimedia Personal Essays The Guide F R I E N D S O F V O X S o m e o f o u r M i s s o u r i a n p a r t n e r s . COURTESY OF MISSOURIWINE.ORG At Crown Valley Winery, you can take a winery tour and sample various varietals for $8. Comments on this article 23589 State Route WW Ste. Genevieve, MO 63670 5737569463 Calling card: This wine empire extends to the Port House in Clarksville and the only Champagne House in the Midwest. The Champagne House is the site of antique wine equipment and bubbly in production. Reason to go: Wagon rides, offered during the late spring and early fall, take you to fields in which antelope frolic and buffalo roam. The ride will also give you a closeup look at the vineyards and lasts about a half hour. A glass of wine is included in the price — don’t spill! Best varietal: The Tasters Guild Wine Competition elected their 2002 and 2003 Chambourcin (red) and their 2003 Malvasia Bianca (white) to receive gold medals. Food and other fare: The Crown Valley Bistro supplies boxed lunches and snacks to complement your wine. Price range: Wine tasting costs $5 per person for a choice of seven wines, and a tour and tasting (by reservation only) costs $8. Wagon rides cost $8. Reward your designated driver with: a premium cigar, available at the bistro. Map it! Crown Valley Winery FOR THE LUMINARY Adam Puchta Winery and Stone Hill Winery FOR THE GOURMET Les Bourgeois Vineyards, Native Stone Winery and Summit Lake Winery page 1 2 3 4 Back to the vineyard. Contact an editor with corrections or additional information J’aime
- 4. log in | register Missourian VOX ClassifiedsArchives SearchLetter Arts The Scene Movie Listings Endnotes Dining Guide Personal Essays Music News & Insight Books Feature Calendar Multimedia The Guide LIKE VOX? SUPPORT US WITH KACHINGLE! A D V E R T I S E M E N T S Day tripping and wine sipping ... luminary Uncorking the best Missouri Vineyards Adam Puchta Winery, Hermann, 65 miles from Columbia COURTESY OF MISSOURIWINE.ORG Adam Puchta Winery has been family owned for more than 150 years. It can produce nearly 62,000 gallons of wine. Stone Hill Winery, Hermann, 65 miles from Columbia COURTESY OF STONE HILL WINERY Before Prohibition (in the early 1900s), Stone Hill Winery was turning out 1,250,000 gallons of wine per year. J’aimeEMAIL BOOKMARK PRINT BY SARAH SMART MAY 3, 2007 | 12:00 A.M. CST FOR THE LUMINARY: HERMANN Indulge in the best wine and star treatment in Hermann at Stone Hill and Adam Puchta wineries. First, spend an afternoon at Adam Puchta, where you can sample the kinds of appetizers that taste best with any wine, and then take a 20minute drive to Stone Hill for a tour and dinner at their Vintage Restaurant. 1947 Frene Creek Road Hermann, MO 65041 4865596 Calling card: It’s the oldest winery in the U.S. still owned and operated by the original family. The Puchta family has been caring for it since 1855. Reason to go: The scenic drive up to the winery takes you outside Hermann and across a rickety bridge over Frene Creek. The tasting room and bistro, which is only open for special events, are nestled among spacious fields and picnic areas. Best varietal: Jazz Berry, raspberry juice added to grape wine, has a unique taste for a sweet wine. Also, the 2003 Norton was a 2006 Jefferson Cup nominee, an invitationonly wine competition, and the 2002 Norton won the Cup in 2005. Food and other fare: The staff encourages you to try food samples with your wine (sip, nibble and sip again) and supplies gourmet snacks, such as flavored straws. Key lime and spicy cheese are just a few of the flavor options. Price range: Tasting is free. Jazz Berry runs around $13; other bottles range from $1020. Reward your designated driver with: gourmet sausages and cheeses, and bleu cheesestuffed olives. Map it! Adam Puchta Winery 1110 Stone Hill Highway Hermann, MO 65041 8009099463 Calling card: It was the second largest winery in the country at the turn of the century, and it is the state’s most decorated winery. Reason to go: The winery tour takes you from the old family homestead into the chilly, vaulted cellars that took 22 years to construct in the late 1800s. The winery ages its wine in European and American oak right next to newer steel vat technology. Best varietal: The winery’s 2003 Norton won gold medals at contests in San Francisco and Long Beach, among other competitions. The 2005 Vignoles fared just as well in the Missouri State Fair Wine Competition. Food and other fare: The Vintage Restaurant offers German foods sidebyside with American cuisine. You can order vintage Norton by the glass to go with your steak, but you’ll wish you were taking home a bottle. Price range: Tasting is free. A bottle of 2006 Norton goes for $19, but most of their whites range in price from $9 to $16. Reward your designated driver with: a “grape stomp” Tshirt. 6 Vox Magazine (Kachingle Anything)
- 5. A B OU T V O X C o l u m b i a ' s c i t y m a g a z i n e : I n p r i n t e v e r y T h u r s d a y a n d o p e n l a t e d a i l y o n t h e w e b . C o p y r i g h t 2 0 0 6 . A l l r i g h t s r e s e r v e d . About Vox Privacy Policy Staff Listing Comments Policy Contact Us Community Guidelines Advertise RSS Twitter Facebook D E P A R T M E N T S Cover The Scene Editor's Letter Movie Listings News & Insight Feature Arts Endnotes Books Calendar Nightlife Dining Guide Music Multimedia Personal Essays The Guide F R I E N D S O F V O X S o m e o f o u r M i s s o u r i a n p a r t n e r s . Comments on this article Map it! Stone Hill Winery FOR THE GOURMET Les Bourgeois Vineyards, Native Stone Winery and Summit Lake Winery FOR THE ADVENTURER Cave Vineyard, Crown Valley Vineyard and Charleville Vineyard Winery page 1 2 3 4 Back to the vineyard. Contact an editor with corrections or additional information J’aime These are the best. We love Puchta! Posted by Grant Venable on Aug 28, 2008 at 2 p.m. (Report Comment)
- 6. log in | register Missourian VOX ClassifiedsArchives SearchLetter Arts The Scene Movie Listings Endnotes Dining Guide Personal Essays Music News & Insight Books Feature Calendar Multimedia The Guide LIKE VOX? SUPPORT US WITH KACHINGLE! A D V E R T I S E M E N T S Day tripping and wine sipping ... gourmet Uncorking the best Missouri Vineyards Les Bourgeois Vineyards, Rocheport, 15 miles from Columbia COURTESY OF LES BOURGEOIS VINEYARDS If you’d rather enjoy the outdoors for a little longer, you can bike to Les Bourgeois on the MKT Trail. Native Stone Winery, Jefferson City, 35 miles south of Columbia COURTESY OF NATIVE STONE WINERY Native Stone Winery acknolwedges Missouri’s roots with its Lewis and Clark hiking trail. J’aimeEMAIL BOOKMARK PRINT BY SARAH SMART MAY 3, 2007 | 12:00 A.M. CST FOR THE GOURMET: ROCHEPORT, JEFFERSON CITY AND HOLTS SUMMIT The gourmet doesn’t have to go far for some of the best wine and food in Missouri. Travel in a loop by first going west to Rocheport for lunch because it’s close. Then follow the Lewis & Clark Trail (Highway 179) down to Native Stone in Jefferson City for the afternoon if you have a beer drinker in your group. On the way back to Columbia, stop at Holts Summit to visit Summit Lake for dinner. Prior knowledge of wine is expected, and the ability to selfnavigate is key. This trip is for connoisseurs only. 14020 W. Highway BB Rocheport, MO 65279 5736982174 Calling card: Les Bourgeois’ wine and food is some of Missouri’s best, says Doug Frost of Kansas City, one of three people in history to achieve the distinctions of Master Sommelier and Master of Wine. Reason to go: It’s close. A 15minute drive makes this winery attractive to many Columbia wine drinkers. Best varietal: The interestingly named, nonvintage Riverboat Red, a sweet wine known affectionately to locals as “RoboRed,” is one of their bestselling in the wholesale market. Food and other fare: The AFrame wine garden offers wine by the glass or bottle and simple snacks to picnic with. For heavier fare, the Blufftop Bistro (all timberframe, that is, made out of wood) has a seasonally changing menu featuring produce grown in their garden and has a unique location overlooking the Missouri River. Price range: “Tastes are free. Tips are appreciated,” states a sign on the front counter. You can upgrade to B.E.S.T. (Bourgeois extra special tastes) status, in which you get to taste all the wines on the menu as well as wines not yet released, and you can keep your glass — all for $8. Most bottles range from $9 to $18. Reward your designated driver: Let him or her pet one of the “cats in a box” (not for sale) in the tasting room. Map it! Les Bourgeois Vineyards 4301 Native Stone Road Jefferson City, MO 65109 5735848600 Calling card: Lewis and Clark named this area during their expedition — the winery has a rich tradition of honoring the exploratory pair. Reason to go: A twomile (round trip) hiking trail on the estate leads to Bull Rock Brewery, where you can sip raspberry ales and “bloody beers” (beer mixed with tomato or clamato juice) if you get tired of wine. Best varietal: Their Chambourcin and Norton port have won medals in the Governor’s Cup competition. Food and other fare: The Corps of Discovery restaurant offers gourmet eats, such as salmon dip, chicken chardonel and crème brulee. Intriguing titles complement the dishes. Sacagawea’s quesadilla comes to mind. 6 Vox Magazine (Kachingle Anything)
- 7. A B OU T V O X C o l u m b i a ' s c i t y m a g a z i n e : I n p r i n t e v e r y T h u r s d a y a n d o p e n l a t e d a i l y o n t h e w e b . C o p y r i g h t 2 0 0 6 . A l l r i g h t s r e s e r v e d . About Vox Privacy Policy Staff Listing Comments Policy Contact Us Community Guidelines Advertise RSS Twitter Facebook D E P A R T M E N T S Cover The Scene Editor's Letter Movie Listings News & Insight Feature Arts Endnotes Books Calendar Nightlife Dining Guide Music Multimedia Personal Essays The Guide F R I E N D S O F V O X S o m e o f o u r M i s s o u r i a n p a r t n e r s . Summit Lake Winery, Holts Summit, 30 miles south of Columbia COURTESY OF SUMMIT LAKE WINERY A dining secret: The restaurant only serves steak on Tuesday evenings. Visit the Summit Lake Winery then for a treat. Comments on this article Price range: Tasting is free. Wines are $5.50 by the glass, and bottles cost from $14 to $22. The brewery’s beer costs $3 for pints and $10 for pitchers. Reward your designated driver with: a big bear hug. Map it! Native Stone Winery 1707 S. Summit Drive Holts Summit, MO 65043 5738969966 Calling card: The patio dining was voted “Best Outdoor Dining Experience” in MidMissouri Mature Living. The winery also features a wide selection of French hybrid and Native American wines. Reason to go: The winery perches on a high hill, and the patio is perfect for gazing into the small lake below. Sit around the cozy fireplace in case of inclement weather. Best varietal: This winery features innovative wines, such as So Blue, a blend of four different grapes: Vidal Blanc, Seyval, Vivant and Riesling grapes. Bottle sales from wines named after local parishes (St. Andrew, for example, a full and peppery wine) result in donations to these parishes. Food and other fare: Outoftheordinary cuisine is paired with the wines. Items such as asiago and artichoke dip appear on the menu next to classics such as salmon and shrimp. Price range: Tasting is free. The lunch menu is less expensive than the dinner menu, and glasses of wine range from $4 to $9. Reward your designated driver with: chocolate fondue. Map it! Summit Lake Winery FOR THE LUMINARY Adam Puchta Winery and Stone Hill Winery FOR THE ADVENTURER Cave Vineyard, Crown Valley Vineyard and Charleville Vineyard Winery page 1 2 3 4 Back to the vineyard. Contact an editor with corrections or additional information J’aime