Monarch Hill Vineyards

Last night’s dinnerone of my all times favorites

Gorgeous weekend of sunsets

We are out here getting ready for the Auction. Come shop with us...starts at 9 am

If you’re in the Perryville, Farmington and Ste. Genevieve area please share our auction!

Walk with the pups! Nature is nurture

Happy Thanksgiving Eve to all our friends and volunteers! We are very grateful for your help this last year. We truly hope you have a safe, healthy and happy Thanksgiving Day tomorrow with those you can....these are certainly challenging times.

Last nights sky

Halloween cooking

Thanks to all of our wonderful volunteers last Sunday helping us get the last harvest in! We had another awesome group of people and an amazing weekend!!! Check the photos are you in there???

This is where our fruit goes to become wine

Hey everyone We look forward to seeing you soon for picking! Remember to dress in layers, wear gloves if you like and bring a camp chair for breaks in the vineyard.

Exciting News! The farm is finally on HipCamp! https://www.hipcamp.com//darrell-j-s/monarch-hill-vineyard

Hi Friends! I need 10 more people to help pick the Norton Vineyard this coming Sunday, October 18th 9:00 am -4:00 pm. If you plan on coming and haven’t told me let me know and also if you want to join us RSVP through here or call me at 314-308-4075

Last night’s amazing vegetarian dinner

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Dear Friends, I want to Thank each of you that came out and helped us harvest the Chambourcin vineyard yesterday! We had 50 amazing volunteers and we needed each and everyone of them as we brought in 7.3 tons of fruit! This also helped us get done earlier we truly thank y’all as it could not be done without you...many good hands make light work! We will be harvesting the Norton Vineyard on Sunday, October 18 it looks like I will post an event later

Hi friends, I just posted our last harvest date for the year. Please let me know if you can help. I need 30 good volunteers! Thanks

Dear Volunteers Thank you for helping us harvest yesterday! We had such a wonderful group of friends, amazing weather and a rewarding experience. We will be harvesting the Chambourcin Vineyard on October 4th and will be posting the event soon. Thanks again...we couldn’t do it without y’all

Hi Everyone! We are looking forward to picking beautiful grapes with you tomorrow... please bring gloves, dress in layers, camp chair and a water bottle as we are trying to lower our carbon footprint.

Hi friends, We will be harvesting the Chardonnel grapes this Sunday September 20th. Thanks to those of you who are coming to pick! Our next harvest will be Sunday October 4th and we will be picking the Chambourcin grapes . I am going to need 20-30 people for that one so put it on your calendar and if you would like to camp on the hill the night before a.k.a. Saturday please make plans and just let us know we will throw together a barbecue!

Chuckles stole my place in bed AGAIN

Street tacos made at the vineyard

We are harvesting the Chardonnel next Sunday, Spetmeber 20th....let me know if you can help!

Watch here for harvest dates coming soon

I’m labeling wine.....you know what that means....Harvest PartySOON!!!

The vineyard is looking great ....fruit coming along nicely Check here for HarVest Announcement Soon!

We have the most wonderful tomatoes this year!! Prepping pasta sauce for the winter...TOO MANY to eat

The fruit looks great. Good to have rain

Rollin came home.....Darrell did not want a pool in the yard..... there is a pool in the yard complete with beer pong table

Rose All Day!!! Only 4 bottles left of this ...it did not disappoint

Beautiful evening at Monarch Hill

The grapes and tomatoes are doing amazing.....we are hoping for a good year

Grilling and chilling at the farm

This morning sunrise....Spectacular

Beautiful weather last evening

Happy Memorial Day Weekend Thank you to those who served our wonderful country. Get out there and enjoy your life...

Tonight’s Virtual Vineyard Tour

I can’t leave Chuck out

Views from the vineyard tonight ....Such a beautiful evening

Bud break is happening in the vineyard...it’s one of the most beautiful times of the season

Tonight there was a lot of stress in the air .....so much so that Chief and I had a hard time getting one decent selfie in......but I think we finally got it

Beautiful sunset tonight

WOW in this crazy week....I’m just glad to see spring awakening the vineyard

For all my High School Boone Farm Wine Drinkers

Sunday’s full moon

Please read this

Cleaned up this dirty boy today and made him look beautiful and then he went out and rolled in the mud again.....guess I’ll be cleaning him up again..... tomorrow

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-51304857

This is not good

Tasting the Red Shed Rose today It is almost time to bottle it and it is absolutely the best one yet

It’s a cold windy day and Chief is frisky!!! Nothing more beautiful than a horse running

Christmas dinner in the works

Merry Christmas to all and thanks for your help this past year! Wonderful Wishes for the New Year 2020

Picking Juniper Berries from our branches to create a venison sauce for tomorrow

Remi is having a hard time getting comfortable to go to sleep

Yesterday we took the dogs and horse for a long walk around the vineyard With the cold weather the leaves are changing fast ... it’s beautiful

Today we tasted the three wines we are making....they are really nice

We truly THANK all of our Wonderful Volunteers who helped us harvest our last vineyard this past Sunday. We had an amazing team of friends that got the job done on time and then enjoyed a harvest party and beautiful harvest moon

Hi Freinds, we are very busy prepping for our last harvest tomorrow if you are coming please dress in layers and bring a camp chair if you have one! The weather is going to be gorgeous cooler in the morning warmer in the afternoon but all perfect

We helped our other vineyard neighbors the Billhorn’s pick grapes this past weekend because what goes around comes back ....so our last harvest is this Sunday October 13th RSVP to me through our event

Monarch Hill would like to thank all of our volunteers from the bottom of our hearts! We know it was a very warm day but you wonderful friends showed up and helped us get the job done! We appreciate your time and energy and hope that you got to enjoy beautiful mother nature and some good barbecue and wine! It was nice to see our great reliable repeat pickers and fun to meet some new ones also. Thank You ALL!