Weingarten Vineyard

Atmosphere was great but that’s the only good part. Wine was average, bartender was pushy and had a poor attitude. Careful on their driveway. One way is a old wood bridge that is close to collapse and the other is a huge hill with a bump you can’t see but bottoms out your car.

Nice place, except for the owners dog that interrupts my meal, conversion, and general pleasant time… every time.
I wouldn’t come here again if my family didn’t plan events here.

Lisa D
in the last week
I was part of a party of nine people who showed up around 7:15 on a Saturday night after a long and winding Drive on a dark and narrow country road. we were looking for a wonderful place to end our winery tour day. We found this place on the web music, was promised till 8:30.
What we found was a beautiful spot, beautiful surroundings –and unfriendly and unhelpful staff. When We finally did find someone to acknowledge us, they unapologetically turned us away, stating they were not taking any more reservations for the evening even though their website does not say that they were required. One table was finishing a meal while there was a large party down stairs. Many empty tables around. The staff person refused to get a manager when we asked to speak to one. Call ahead, do not expect helpful or friendly staff, you will be awed by surroundings, and lack of service.

This place is awesome. Great wine great view great food and awesome staff. Love this place

I love this place!!! My friends and I love to come here for their sangria! Also, the view is amazing. Very relaxing!!! They have really yummy food as well, my favorite is the fish tacos… The owners are very friendly and very helpful. Definitely a favorite winery of mine!

Of all the wineries in Ste. Genevieve, this one may have the most gorgeous facility. There is what almost looks like a well-​kept antique shop upon entering, and once you get past there, you enter a large room with towering windows overlooking a gorgeous view of the St. Gen countryside. The lady had a wine sampling and I had a glass of beer, and we had a sausage and cheese plate as well as pretzels and beer cheese. It was a very relaxing experience; especially after the drive up from Memphis, TN. Everyone here was quite friendly and frankly, we wish we had come here for dinner to experience sunset at this gorgeous facility. I would strongly recommend this winery to anyone.

This winery is our go to when visiting the St. Gen area. The views are stunning and the food is excellent. We visited on a Saturday afternoon and sat on the back patio. Dinner reservations are taken inside, so you can order from their deli menu for a more casual atmosphere outside. The deli menu is so much more than it sounds, we had the flatbread pizzas, sourdough bread loaves with spread (the garlic and artichoke are delicious) and pretzel bites with cheese. Everything was top notch. Their wine is great as well; they even carry other world wines besides your standard MO options. They also have a full bar, which is great for those who don’t prefer wine. The service was great, even though they were busy with a wedding in the downstairs reception area. This place is gorgeous, perfect for sitting and relaxing outside enjoying great wine and food.

We stopped by the Weingarten Saturday. It was our first visit since last December. We were greeted like old friends. Whitney’s face lit up when she saw us and was her always helpful self. Connie gave me a big hug, which is kind of nice for an old retired guy to get now and then. We had a great bottle of wine and some very nice appetizers while sitting on the porch enjoying the sun. The only unfriendly thing we met was the resident cat but that’s to be expected from cats.

Staff was not friendly. Hours were not right that were posted on website, we were told they were closed when we went inside even though the hours on website and multiple flyers said they would still be open for a while. There were people on the back porch but they did not offer to let us stay at all. Will not be back.
Also difficult to find the building, signage terrible, we were not sure if we were at the right place or at someone’s house.
Not able to enjoy it but it seemed like there was a great view off the back porch, so an extra star I guess. Lots of parking should have no trouble finding a spot.

The staff is not the friendliest. When we walked in, the «host» was not welcoming at all! We were asked if we had a reservation and said no, and was told we needed one. We looked at each other blankly, we weren’t coming to eat, didn’t know they had a restaurant… We were just coming for the winery. Wine was ok. But we interacted with four workers, and the friendliest one was the one who walked us to the restrooms when I asked her where it was.

My husband and I were out and about exploring the beautiful Ste. Genevieve countryside and doing a little bit of winery hopping. We stopped to check out this place since it is new-​ish to the area. First off, the building is absolutely gorgeous inside and out. The massive fireplace inside made me want to come back in the winter. We decided to buy a bottle of wine and the bartender was very helpful. We chose their blackberry, which was wonderful, if you like sweet wines like we do. We sat outside on their back patio and listened to some live music for a couple hours. It was a lovely afternoon. While the facility is not entirely finished yet, it shows amazing potential.

We had dinner here on a Saturday night, service was excellent. We had shrimp cocktails for the appetizers, very good. The salad dressing was good, we both had the house salad. My wife had the special, stuffed pork tenderloin. The portion was huge, would have fed two. It was very good but a little dry. She had a green bean casserole as a side dish, very tasty. I had the small fillet. It was cooked perfectly and had a marvelous flavor. I had a summer squash medley that was good. For dessert my wife had the carmel apple cheesecake, simply excellent. I had the crème bulai (?) it was very good. All in all a fine dinning experience, I recommend Weingarten Vinyard to all.

Weingarten Vineyard was, I think, my final passport stop of the year. It was near the end of the day, and I didn’t try anything. It’s a large (not Crown Valley large, so perhaps medium) building on some beautiful land. Clean place, with a large gift shop with art by (local?) artists. They must have had dinner going on, because it sure was busy. Neat place. I hope to come back for a tasting sometime.

Had reservations. Waited to be seated even though there were tables open. Maybe understaffed? Same thing happened the last time we were there. Hummmmm anyway. Service was at a relaxed pace and we weren’t in any hurry but we reminded the waitress to hold off bringing us our next course until we were done with the one we were having. I’m finding I need to alert our server to this as time goes on. Maybe a generational shift? I digress … Seems removing the plate from the course you’re on before bringing the next course is a thing of the past unless you specifically tell the server.
Food was very good and the manager came out and asked how it was. Nice touch!
Suggestion? If I’m going to be kept waiting for my table after my reservation time — bring me something on the appetizer menu — doesn’t have to be an entire app — maybe a little bread — another drink etc.,
Overall, a nice place with great views.

Weingarten for the win!
I’ve been here a few times while winery hopping in Ste. Gen, and it’s one of my favorites! Mostly because it’s never so ridiculously crowded like a lot of the other spots in the area. Parking is easy (how is it not easy when it’s a big gravel lot?) and there’s so much space inside. The glass windows overlook pretty rolling hills, and I could drink the Norton 2009 all day and not get tired of it. What else do you need?
They have a cute deli with cheese, salami, crackers, breads, and even items like toasted ravs, crab rangoon, and other hot foods. You can also order from a big menu of specialty pizzas! Sandwiches and salads are also great options. They also have a full-​blown restaurant with an impressive menu, but I’ve yet to try it.
Wine, live music, a great food selection, and picture-​perfect views? Sign me up.

Bad food, bad service, appalling manners by managers. A GOOD restaurant would have taken the bad-​tasting pizzetta that was served 20 minutes after the rest of our meal (to a child no less!) off of the ticket, a GREAT restaurant would have comped the dessert that same child ordered. This restaurant did neither. Instead they served us bread without bread plates (we had to eat our bread on the table cloth); a steak without a steak knife; tiny, bland chicken for $ 13 dollars; and an incorrectly cooked filet.
On top of it all, they embarrassed my mother-​in-​law on Mothers Day when she asked about the cooking temperature of her meat, by re-​displaying it to her twice by two different people, and mockingly trying to «clarify» what she wanted. It shouldn’t have been a big deal. It had been ordered medium rare, it came out dry on the outside and barely pink on the inside. For both me and my husband, having worked in restaurants for many years in our past, concluded that was at least medium, if not close to medium-​well, AND I feel guilty because I encouraged her to return it, thinking for the price, and because it was mothers day, she deserved a perfect meal. We would have been completely happy with their response if it had been dealt with quickly and professionally by replacing the steak politely. Not the case.
We are normally very easy to please and LOVE fine dining. We don’t mind to pay higher prices for great food, but there was no value in our well-​over-​$ 100-​meal. The pinnacle of it all was when the filet was finally returned to the kitchen, the male manager balked so loudly that we could hear, further embarrassing my mother-​in-​law to the point where she spent the rest of the meal sadly wishing she hadn’t said anything or come to this restaurant at all. We will NEVER be back.
other strange things: a wet dog was walking around begging for food, we were sat in an auxiliary location, despite a reservation, that looked like a church banquet hall, and soft drinks were not free refills… I could go on.

We recently made a girls weekend trip to the Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, area for a tour of local vineyards. The Weingarten was by far our favorite. It sits on beautiful grounds and the staff there are some of the nicest people we’ve ever met. We also had dinner hear, which featured some of the best steak I’ve ever had in my life (so tender that you could cut it with a fork). And the owner even came out to speak with us. We had not previously made reservations but they had fit us in, although they were handling both a wedding and a prom at the same time.
We also fell in love with the blackberry wine we were served.
We will be returning again!

We found Weingarten (est. 2011) because we have lake property nearby and we are sure glad we did as it is BEAUTIFUL! Weingarten is definitely the most classy winery I have visited in Missouri. Although the outdoor area is still mostly unfinished, they do have seating available on the deck and more is coming soon. However, the indoor main room is finished and it just gorgeous.
We came on a Saturday night when they had a young man singing some Frank Sinatra and other classic low key tunes. We opted to reserve a table and enjoy dinner. FYI you must call to reserve a spot and place your dinner order in advance only if you want a planned sit down dinner. The beef medallions and tilapia were wonderful. The salad and bread were memorably good as well. Although having dinner is on the more pricey side, it was worth it if you are planning on making an entire evening out of visiting Weingarten. They also have a deli/​bakery area where you can order food items such as pizza and sandwiches at will if you choose to go that route.
Their house made wine selection is small, but I recommend the Norton. None of their other wines were that great and too sweet for me, but the Norton was wonderful if you are dry a red wine drinker. They also have in house brewed beers which were honestly better than the wine. I loved their wheat beer and brown ale the most. All the beers were worth sampling. FYI the wine tasting is $ 5 for only 3 wine tastings and tasting tokens must be bought in the gift shop area. You can also pay to sample all the beers as well. However, the beers were 12 oz. and were $ 4. A bit expensive overall, but I was not surprised based on how fancy it is.
Weingarten would be perfect for a wedding and reception considering how beautiful it is. They have a large receptions area downstairs that can accommodate 300+. Impressive! They are also building two additional smaller rooms that hold 30 – 50 guests.
Overall, it’s just gorgeous, had wonderful, friendly service, great food, great beer, good wine, had great live entertainment, and had a romantic, classy vibe. I will be back!

A lot of things are done right here. The building itself is beautiful, people are welcoming and provide good service, the shop was very nicely decorated, the view is awesome, pretty even for mid-​March, and some of the food and craft beer was very good, too. So this winery has lots going for it already. The location is right on highway 32 about 10 miles west of I-​55, so I wouldn’t say it’s remote, but there is no other reason to visit this small community unless you’re going hiking at Hawn SP or Pickle Springs NA (that’s why we stumbled across the place). It’s a good 20 minutes from the next nearest winery, which is probably not the greatest thing for business. The sign is also easy to miss.
They are still finding their way in the market after being open 10 months. They are also still working on both the facility and the landscaping. Per our discussion with one of the employees, they are still trying to decide «what they’re going to do» with the place. It’s a winery, brewpub, deli/​restaurant and banquet facility now, with the future possibly (?) bringing guest rooms. They currently serve dinner on Friday and Saturday evenings.
We didn’t try any of their wines. These days I have so little faith in the excellence of Missouri wines I just didn’t feel like blowing five bucks to try theirs. To their immense credit, they do also have a few California wines that you can taste. I’m sure we’ll be back to try some of these. We did try a flight of beers; Brown Ale, Irish Red Ale and Winter Ale. We weren’t so crazy about the brown, but the other two were very good. We also tried the turkey panini and a small pepperoni pizza, which were both pretty expensive at $ 9. Craft beers are just $ 4 a pour, so that kind of makes up for it. The sandwich was quite good, but the pizza (from their «wood fired oven») was exactly like an Imo’s lunch pizza. So what are we to make of a winery that uses Provel? I like Provel fine, but for some reason this gives me even less hope their wines will be good. They should seriously consider giving people a choice of cheese. Sodas are served in a can.
I’m being kind of generous with 4 stars, I think, but it really is a beautiful building and I do recommend you stop by if you’re in the area. We’ll definitely be back to enjoy everything that’s done right… and to try the wines, I guess.

Imagine if you will– an architect that wants to open a first class winery…
The 20,000 square foot winery is open, but still under construction (pics). The open layout screams «I am an architect & this is my dream!» The three level winery is beautiful in design. The great room (pics) with expansive views, ceiling, fireplace & tasting bar put almost all places I have visited to shame. The outside patio & decks will be massive with great views of the growing vineyard & country side. (The patio will be open, weather permitting, for this 4^th of July weekend)
From the great room I saw the fire oven (pic).
The $ 8 «beef kabob with veggies» description on the menu was an two skewer understatement. This «beef» was so tender we had to ask about it– the cook/​owner/​architect said he bought the left over cuts from fillets to make the kabobs. The meat is marinated for 24 hours then fire grilled in the oven with (green, red & yellow) peppers, red onions plus mushrooms that is so good we ordered 2 more to take home. (The meat being cooked to about steakhouse Med-​well, but very juicy & tender)
The $ 8 veggie fire baked pizza had very fresh ingredients & great balance of flavors in the thin crust style.
We were suggested the calzone… I said yes and it was great for a calzone. We both realized (IMO) cheese & meat combo did not show case the freshness & flavor in comparison to the kabob & veggie pizza.
They have a 300 person dining hall in the lower level that is complete. The have two more meetings rooms at both ends of the main level that are available plus a gift shop. The upper level steakhouse & dining/​meeting rooms are still under construction.
The wine we had was «Princess Sweet» red wine that she likes… I am not the wine connoisseur. (Later I found out they serve a locally brewed beer)
I was told they have been having weddings & receptions there since May (opening)
Why only 4 stars… this is under construction… they are having a very soft opening by design… attitude was great, but they are still working out how the biz will be run (the husband & wife owner team seem to be great)… I will return in July and update– if things keep moving forward I can see 5 stars.