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January is Norton Month

January in Missouri is cold temperatures, snowy landscapes, and chilly winds. It’s easy to see why January is also Norton Month in Missouri — Norton is a great way to warm up when you come inside.

St. James Winery’s Estate Norton showcases Missouri’s state grape in a wine that has aromas of mixed berries mingled with flavors of vanilla, black cherries, blackberries, and pepper. This full-bodied dry red (only .4% residual sugar!) has been aged on oak for 12 months. It looks beautiful in the glass and tastes even better!

Enjoy St. James Winery Estate Norton with grilled lamb or venison!

In honor of Norton Month and the cold temperature, here are some of our favorite warm and hearty soup recipes featuring St. James Winery’s Estate Norton.

And our Cherry Fudge Cake is delicious for dessert…served with a glass of Norton. Of course!

January 22, 2016/by CurlyHost

August is Vignoles Month

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August is Vignoles Month in Missouri! A versatile, French-American hybrid grape, Vignoles is a favorite at St. James Winery because it is so uniquely suited to flourishing in Missouri’s Ozark Highlands AVA.

Our Vignoles is a perfect balance of sweet fruit and citrus zing. This delicious white wine features crisp grapefruit and pineapple flavors which complement the clean, lingering finish.

Vignoles wines are delicious when served alongside late summer foods like apples, squash, and pears. Vignoles is also a perfect pairing for spicy Asian or Mexican dishes.

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Recent Winners

At the recent Indy International Wine Competition and Missouri Wine Competition, St. James Winery was once again golden! Gold medal award winning wines were:

Vignoles (Indy & Missouri)
Strawberry (Indy)
Podium Series Traminette (Indy, available Tasting Room Only)
Cynthiana (Missouri)
Friendship School White (Missouri)

August 13, 2014/by CurlyHost

Chocolate Goes With….

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St. James Winery’s Raspberry or Cherry wines!

All our fruit wines are made with real fruit juices, which gives them as close to fresh ripe fruit taste as you can find in a bottle of wine.

Serve St. James Winery Raspberry or Cherry wines well-chilled. They pair beautifully with a big wine glass and an even bigger box of chocolates!

They also taste great alongside your favorite book, so……after dinner, St. James Winery recommends Todd Klimen’ s The Wild Vine: A Forgotten Grape and the Untold Story of American Wine, a book devoted to the fascinating story of the Norton grape.

For two different takes on the same Norton grape, sip along with our 2012 Cynthiana or 2009 Norton, which the San Francisco Chronicle just awarded Double Gold and Gold, respectively.

January 28, 2014/by CurlyHost

Library Selections

dry wine, red wine, white wine

This fall, St. James Winery is giving you the opportunity to reconnect with some of your favorite wines. Now is the time to grab a favorite book and a glass of wine from our Library Selections.

Library Selections — The Red Wines
These delicious red wines are aging beautifully and will drink well over the next several years.

2010 Chambourcin

2011 Cynthiana

2008 Norton

2009 Norton

2010 Norton

Library Selections — The White Wines
The white wines are both reaching their peak of flavor, which means they are perfect to enjoy right now.

2008 Reserve Chardonel

2011 Traminette

These vintage year wines reflect the grapes’ unique growing season, but because we can’t turn back the clock, when these beautiful wines are sold out, they are gone forever, so pick up your favorite Library Selection today!

September 25, 2013/by CurlyHost

Treat Yourself!

dry wine, great deals, red wine, semi sweet wine, white wine

Happy Halloween from St. James Winery!

Time once again to answer the important, perennial question wine lovers face each Halloween:

What wine(s) pair best with candy corn and circus peanuts?

Here at St. James Winery, we know for sure we love our St. James Winery Riesling with freshly dipped caramel apples and pears (maybe rolled in candy corn!).

And if you’re in the market for savory deliciousness after an evening of trick or treating, our St. James Winery Cynthiana tastes great alongside firebaked pepperoni pizza or a steaming pot of chili.

Place an order today (Halloween Day — 10/31!), we have no tricks in store, just treats!

Score our St. James Winery logo neoprene wine caddy absolutely free with the purchase of 6 bottles or more of wine during the month of October. But act fast, this offer ends when the clock strikes midnight at the winery.

October 31, 2012/by CurlyHost

Twenty-One a Lucky Number for St. James Winery

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If St. James Winery were playing blackjack, it would have definitely come up a winner at the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition by hitting 21! Twenty-one bottles of wine were shipped from St. James, Missouri to California for the competition, and when it was all said and done, each one of those bottles came home with a medal.

At this kick-off competition for the 2012 wine judging season, two of St. James Winery’s wines were honored with Best of Class Awards: Best of Class for Red Native American went to the 2009 Cynthiana, and Best of Class for Fruits went to St. James Winery’s Raspberry. The good news continued with gold medals for 2010 Seyval and Strawberry.

St. James Winery also received silver medals for its 2010 Traminette, 2010 Chardonel, 2010 Vignoles, Velvet White, Friendship School White, Blackberry, Peach, and Cherry, bringing the total of silver medals to eight. Rounding out the award-winning entries were nine bronze medals, which went to 2008 Norton, 2009 Chambourcin, Riesling, Velvet Red, Friendship School Red, Country Red, Country White, Pink Catawba, and Blueberry.

“When you send wine to a major competition like the one in San Francisco, and every single bottle comes back home with a medal,” said Peter Hofherr, CEO of St. James Winery, “that’s just a great way to start a new year! Especially when you consider that our wines were among 5,500 wines entered. This year San Francisco set a new American wine competition record for entries, and it’s the ninth consecutive year it will rank as the “Largest Competition of American Wines in the World. So, winning in San Francisco is big news!”

St. James Winery is the largest and most awarded winery in Missouri. During the 2011 competition season, St. James Winery’s won a total of nine Best of Class, five double gold, and 42 gold medals, along with 126 silver and 76 bronze medals. Celebrating more than 40 years as a family owned and operated winery, St. James Winery wines are sold in stores throughout the Midwest and the South. St. James Winery is online at www.stjameswinery.com.

January 12, 2012/by CurlyHost

Cynthiana

October 26, 2012/by CurlyHost

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January is Norton Month

August is Vignoles Month

Recent Winners

Chocolate Goes With….

Library Selections

Treat Yourself!

Twenty-One a Lucky Number for St. James Winery

Tag Archive for: cynthiana

Cynthiana

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