Pug & Horn Vineyard and Winery

06/04/2026

It's been a busy couple weeks so we're a little behind with our updates. During Memorial Weekend we finished placing all 30 wood endposts for Block 4. Here is a view looking toward the first four vineyard blocks.

05/25/2026

While working in the vineyard we checked up on our recently planted block 4. Aravelle was just publicly released in 2023 and originated in New York State. We are one of the first wineries that will be offering this wine outside of the Finger Lakes region! This variety appears to be liking its new home in Missouri!

05/18/2026

Despite Murphy's law being in full effect working with tractor implements this weekend, we managed to get several tasks done. Besides air blast spraying our first two blocks and starting to remove excess shoots on our Valvin Muscat block, we got 15 of our 30 deep holes augered today. Wherever there's a large 15" 3-foot hole, a back-breaking 120 lb. wood endpost is sure to follow!

05/09/2026

Tonight we finally finished planting block 4! 711 more vines in the ground this year bringing our current total vineyard count to 2,507 vines. After such an accomplishment we're celebrating w/ wine!

05/07/2026

This week we got a literal path started to our future winery. Rain or shine we'll easily be able to reach our first four grapevine blocks.

05/05/2026

Over the last week we've been hard at work planting block 4. We started our routine of using a dingo auger to dig each plant, apply 3 gallons of water and mulch. Unfortunately our dingo decided to break down after digging about 200 holes. So we had to rent a dingo and finish all the remaining holes in a marathon augering session: approximately 500 holes in 8.5 hours! As of yesterday, we planted 511 vines out of 711. Whew!

05/01/2026

Last week we were able to finally get all 711 T-posts in the ground just in time to commence our block 4 planting! We'd like to thank John Blankenship and Todd Pfeifer for keeping us on schedule! We'd also like to call out John Ingle for creating a jig (being held in the photo) that allowed us to quickly determine the height to pound the T-posts while keeping them straight with the attached bubble level.

04/22/2026

How fast do St. Vincent grapevines grow in two weeks?

04/19/2026

The last couple of days have been busy ones at the vineyard. First, we'd like to thank John Blankenship and Randy Schwarz for helping us get four more rows of T-posts in the ground! Today we finished putting all 707 grow tubes on block 3, which were planted last year.

04/14/2026