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STONE HILL WINERY BOTTLING TIME
WINE BOTTLING - Bottling Video Bottling is the last phase of the wine making process. It is a complex, important and, at least according to our own Stone Hill wine team, the least favorite step of the wine making process (probably safe to say that others in the...
SPARKLING WINES: A Labor of LOVE
TIRAGE, RIDDLING AND DISGORGING PROCESS OF STONE HILL WINERY'S SPARKLING WINES TIRAGE Stone Hill Winery’s three sparkling wines: Blanc de Blanc, Brut Rosé, and Demi-Sec start out as all still white wines do and then follow the traditional “Methode Champenoise” to...
Roll Out the Barrel
Barrel Aging Stone Hill Winery’s oak barrel inventory consists of 450 60-gallon(225 liter) barrels for aging the Norton, Chambourcin, Chardonel and Port wines. Around another 470 60-gallon barrels are occupied with our Cream Sherry and sherry material that will be...
Branching Out This Fall
As much as most of us are sad to acknowledge it, inevitably summer comes to a close as we feel temperatures begin to drop. The good news though, is that means Fall is just around the corner and soon it will be time to dive into all of our favorite cozy sweaters. Fall...
Bubbly for ALL! Stone Hill Winery sparklers
“Come quickly, I am tasting the stars,” was supposedly the French monk Dom Pérignon’s response upon his first taste of sparkling wine. Pérignon’s admiration for this bubbly wine seems to be a relatively universal one. Stone Hill Winery produces three sparkling wines:...
Our Friendly Neighbor – the Ozark Hellbender
Affectionately nicknamed the snot otter, the Ozark hellbender is more critical to Missouri’s ecosystems than you might think. Hellbenders are aquatic salamanders about two feet in length, and the subspecies Ozark hellbender is found only in the rivers of the Ozarks....
The Notorious Norton
Norton grapes are distinctly an American original, belonging to the species native to North America, vitis aestivalis, producing a complex, big, dry red wine. Ideally suited to Missouri’s complicated growing climate, the mighty Norton vines can withstand bitter cold...
