Sainte Genevieve Winery

Sometimes lovers of sweet wine enter a winery and leave without tasting anything, or disliking what they’ve tasted. Sometimes we go to wineries like Sainte Genevieve Winery with three bottles that we know we’ll ration out over several months
This place has several small rooms and is in what I suppose is the old section of Ste. Genevieve. It’s near the tourist center.
I bought three bottles, including a bottle of the Christmas plum wine, a bottle of blackberry wine, and a bottle of apple wine, which was on special. The good news with that apple wine is that the label is of a bride and groom, as it was crafted for the wedding of the grandchild of the owner or winemaker or someone connected with the winery, so guess who has a gift ready for the next wedding she attends? I do! (No pun intended.)
The wines there are VERY reasonably priced! Next time I go there, I plan to buy at least half a case of wine, and perhaps more for Christmas gifts.

The lady that owns the place has always been super nice. BUT, I think of this more a wine shop than a winery.
As a wine shop, I am a huge fan. Small and quaint with free tastings and descent wine (to me) prices is what keeps us coming back.
There are some SWEET dessert fruit wines that one glass might be worth getting diabetes over.
More than 4 people tasting wine… they better know or want to get to know each other because the place is small.

You absolutely have to try their Christmas Plum wine! I have a ration of it as its only available during November and December! The lady who owns the place is nice enough to have located a store near me that still had a few bottles!

Very good Christmas Plum wine. If you like fruit wines, this is the place to stop.

DUUUUUUUDDE, these wines are sweet! Given, they have an entire page (maybe 12−20 – I don’t know, when I drink my foreign language skills get better, so maybe I loose the ability to count to compensate) of dessert wines, and those things are pretty much straight sugar and fruit (good luck even tasting the alcohol), but their other wines are pretty sweet, too. I stopped the tasting flow when I was told something was semi-​dry and it was like white zin sweet.
The thing with wineries in MO and IL is that they use different grapes than what we come to except of wine because the growing season isn’t a Mediterranean climate like the major wine growing areas of the world. It’s not that they are bad, just different.
But then people throw in sugar. Uhm, no thanks.
The woman doing the tasting was polite, and they had crafty type stuff for sale as well.
I’m torn on how to rate this – I think 4 is fair, maybe. It’s not that they were bad, it just really wasn’t my style.