Show-Me Wine & Tapas: Local Sips and Bites at Bella Vino!

The Bella Vino Wine Bar & Tapas Sign on Historic Main Street in St. Charles, MO

If you haven’t caught on, I’m a sucker for locally made wines! I’m always a little bummed when I visit a local wine bar and discover they don’t offer any local wines. So, you can imagine how thrilled I was to find out that Bella Vino offers a Show-Me Sips: Missouri Made Wine Flight! 🙌🍷

The Show-Me Sips: Missouri Made Wine Flight

With this flight, you’ll get to try three tasty and unique Missouri wines from three different Missouri wineries:

🍷 Stone Hill Winery: Vidal Blanc

🍷 Augusta Winery: Seyval Blanc

🍷 Noboleis Vineyards: Gateway City Red Blend

Sampling the Show Me Wine Flight
Stone Hill Winery: Vidal Blanc
Augusta Winery: Seyval Blanc
Noboleis Vineyards: Gateway City Red Blend

When I was originally invited to try Bella Vino, tasty wine and unique tapas were all I had on the brain!🧠🍷🍽️

We started out with the Chorizo Stuffed Dates that were wrapped in strips of bacon, drizzled with maple syrup and served on top of savory romesco. 🥓

Chorizo Stuffed Dates

The stuffed dates paired incredibly well with the Noboleis Vineyards Gateway City Red Blend that was a part of the Missouri Made wine flight I was enjoying. 🍷

Ordering Chicken Alfredo wasn’t even originally on my radar. I have a guilty pleasure for GOOD Alfredo, so when I saw it was a menu option, I had to give it a try. It’s really hard to impress me with Alfredo, but I was totally wowed by this dish! The sauce was rich and creamy without being too heavy and the chicken was perfectly cooked.🍽️

Chicken Alfredo

I grabbed a glass of Gérard Bertrand Orange Wine to enjoy with my Alfredo and finish off the pretty perfect evening.🧡🍷

Gérard Bertrand Orange Wine

I truly am so grateful to be invited out to try such a unique and delicious St. Charles, Missouri gem and cannot wait to return and try even more tasty eats and drinks! 

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Summertime with a Whimsical Missouri Wine Tasting

What do you have with twelve bottles of award-winning Missouri wine, food, food, and more food, and a group of people ready to have their pallets put to the test? It must be time for a whimsical award-winning Missouri wine tasting!

Who will be the favorite out of them all?

Ten folks gathered (properly socially distanced) to enjoy an evening of tasting twelve of Missouri’s award-winning wines from eight different Missouri wineries.

Adam Puchta Winery

•Cellar Select Norton(non-vintage)-$20.00

•Dry Vignoles (non-vintage)-$19.00

Augusta Winery

•2017 Estate Bottled Norton-$18.93

Defiance Ridge Vineyards

•2018 La Femme Osage Rosé-$28.00

Le Bourgeois Vineyards and Winery

•Brut Sparkling Wine-$30.00

•2017 St. Vincent Rosé-$18.00

Montelle Winery

•2018 Chardonel-$16.66

Noboleis Vineyards

•2017 Vignoles-$20.00

St. James Winery

•2017 Dry Vignoles-$15.99

•2018 Cynthiana-$12.99

Stone Hill Winery

•2017 Chambourcin-$14.00

•2017 Norton-$21.00

In the end–the overall favorite red wine was the Adam Puchta Winery-Select Cellar Norton, and the favorite white was the Noboleis Vineyards-Vignoles!

There wasn’t a drop left in either of those bottles by the end of the night!

For more information on the amazing world of Missouri Wine and Wine Country, be sure to visit https://missouriwine.org for everything you need to get your Missouri Wine adventures started!

Enjoy Missouri Wines!