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Coming to you today from my good friend Dan Stockemer’s Prairie Hill Vineyards located West of Wichita near Colwich Kansas. Dan has been interested in wine for many years and after moving back from California to his Kansas home always promised his late wife Mary he’d plant a vineyard on the family farm.
Dan Stockemer in the Vineyard
From the first vineyards planted Dan made some respectable wine that we have tasted and talked about on the show years ago. More plantings of several different grape varieties that do well in Kansas has lead Dan to our mutual friends at Grace Hill Winery in White Water. Grace Hill now buys much of what Dan grows these days.
Dan’s focus in the past several years after Mary’s untimely passing has been to make the family farm a show-place vineyard and a pastoral event venue. Prairie Hill Vineyards is a great place to have a wedding, his daughter Danielle was one of the first to do just that. A large pond, water features and an almost botanical array of beautiful plants and flowers add to the vineyard setting.
In addition to weddings, corporate meetings, family reunions, wine tastings, farm-to-table dinners, concerts and private parties are all on the list of upcoming events.
The Wichita Chapter of the American Institute of Wine & Food is having a Food & Wine Pairing event July 20 starting at 7:00 p.m. Dan will provide a presentation on viticulture in America and Kansas. Afterwards guests will have the opportunity to “Blind Taste” some great wine and enjoy Hors d’oeuvres. Visit aiwfwichita.org for more information.
Prairie Hill Vineyard at Stockemer Farm is located at:
21421 West 37th Street North, Colwich Kansas
www.prairiehillvineyard.com]
Good Life Guy’s Wine of the Week:
Something Dan has made from the family vineyard 🙂
