Missouri Wines

It’s Chambourcin month, so celebrate this underrated grape even if you can’t pronounce it

Norton may be Missouri’s most popular wine, but November is the month we celebrate the Show Me state’s second most popular red wine, Chambourcin. […]

Beer

Which Missouri wineries are also making beer

Despite the heat, Labor Day is the symbolic end of summer and the return of fall.  For me, the fall is one of the more glorious seasons in our area, as the temps get cooler […]

Events

Wine and bacon? You bet!

To be quite honest, up until a year-and-a-half ago, I never gave food pairings much thought.  Wine, beer, whiskey, paired with food, I figured it was just nonsense.  Then, in October 2015 my wife treated […]

Events

New fusion of Missouri whiskey & wine debuting from StilL 630

Time to clear some space off the home bar to make room for another new bottle from St. Louis’ own StilL 630.  Award-winning distiller David Weglarz is ready to debut his newest bottle this Friday […]

Missouri Wines

Ideas for matching Missouri Vignole wines with just about any food

Vignoles is what is called a hybrid grape.  I was developed in the late 1920s by French grape scientist Jean Francois Ravat.  Originally planted in the Cote D’Or region of Burgundy in France, it has […]

Missouri Wines

Chaumette’s June wine is perfect with sausage pizza

Each month Ste. Genevieve winery Chaumette features a wine you can purchase at a discount in their tasting room.  For the month of June, that wine is their Huguenot Red.  In Chaumette’s tasting notes, It’s […]