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How Missouri Saved the World’s Vineyards with Native Grapes
How Missouri Helped the Wine World Get a taste of the unique history Missouri scientists played in saving the global wine industry, and sip the regional wines that make Missouri famous today. Oct. 3, 8 p.m. ET, join Museum Curator Nezka Pfeifer of the Missouri...
Best Wine in Missouri – The Results of the 2021 Missouri Wine Competition
The results of the 2021 Missouri Wine Competition are in, and we could not be happier. Over 225 Missouri wines were tasted during the three-day competition, all vying for the esteemed Governor's Cup, awarded to the best wine produced in Missouri. Ultimately, our 2019...
Best Native Wine in United States
It is official! Our 2017 Norton has been named the Best Native Wine in the United States! We won ten awards at the most recent American Wine Society Competition, including the Best of Class Native Wine Award. The prestigious national competition is where many...
Reclaimed with a Purpose
Jim and Betty Held had always thought of having some kind of food component at the winery to accompany their wines. In 1978 a decision was made to restore the historic winery stables shaping the space into a restaurant. After all the years of...
The 411 on Reserve Wines
Stone Hill Winery produces three reserve wines: Chardonel, Vignoles, and Traminette. If you’ve ever wondered what the word “reserve” on a wine label means, the answer is not always a clear one. The term originated from the idea that winemakers held back or “reserved”...
Stone Hill Winery’s Beast Feast
The 32-year tradition of the Great Stone Hill Beast Feast event is memorable for its menu of wild game appetizers and entrées but more importantly, for making a difference. Stone Hill Winery has hosted its annual Beast Feast every December to raise money for...
Harvest by Moonlight
At Stone Hill Winery ~ quality is always at the forefront of everything we do! And in order to ensure the very highest quality we want to control what goes into OUR wines. That is why we have our OWN vineyards (190 acres~making us the largest grape grower in...
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...
