O’Fallon Illinois
My last night away from home! A rather uneventful drive across Kansas and Missouri today. There is still some snow left on the ground from the storm that passed through the area a day before I did on my way out.
I stopped at the Stone Hill outlet store and bought four bottles of their Vidal Blanc wine. Stone Hill is a winery in Hermann Missouri. Way back when, Germans moved to Hermann, a small town on the Missouri River and started making wine. The climate is similar to the climate along the Rhine so the wineries make a lot of sweet white wines. The Vidal Blanc is a dry white that tastes a lot like Pinot Grigio. The predominant red grape is the Norton which they think prolly came from Virginia. The Norton wine tastes a lot like a Syrah. An interesting fun fact: Missouri root stock saved the French wine industry. French vineyards were decimated by an insect called phylloxera. American vines were resistant so Missouri vines were sent to France and grafted to the French vines. Yay Missouri!
I also had to stop at a Dierbergs grocery store and buy some gooey butter cake to take back to Atlanta. It’s sumpin’ you can only find in St. Louis. It can be frozen, so I’ll eat one and freeze the other two and eat later.
Looking forward to getting home tomorrow.