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HARVEsT MOON Festival
Saturday
September 25, 2010
This popular event begins with a three mile
hayride from the winery to the vineyard where the music of the Beeker Street Band fills the air.
It is magical - the vineyard, a great band, bonfire, the moon, wine to
drink and food treats to munch on by moonlight.
Give the Harvest Moon credit for great gravitational pull!
The romantic evening begins at the winery where the Harvest Moon Festival
goers arrive with blanket in hand and pick up their “wine tote of goodies". This
includes sausage, cheese, loaves of freshly baked French bread, two logo wine
glasses, a sweet treat, corkscrew, and a knife. The first order of
business is to pick out the bottle of wine that comes with your basket.
Then, stroll to where the wagons load to take people on the leisurely ride
to the vineyard under the rising moon. Departures for the three mile ride
begin at 5:45 p.m. and continue every 10 minutes or so until 8:00 p.m. Tickets
are $60/couple or $35 for one.
If you are one of those who is in a rush to eat before the ride, rest easy. You can come and get a
little something to eat at the winery before heading out to the vineyards on
the hay wagon. Meramec Vineyard’s Bistro d’Vine will be serving Harvest Supper from 5 – 8 p.m.
It consists of Boeuf Bourguignon
(aka Beef Stew cooked with red wine for flavoring) served in a Bread Roll with a Bistro side salad. This supper is available
to Festival ticket buyers for $12 per person. (For Non Festival goers, the price is
$12.95).
At the vineyard, the Beeker Street
Band will entertain from 6:30 to 11 p.m. Find your spot, throw down your
blanket, rest your back against a hay bale, pop the cork, relax and enjoy the
evening - music, wine, food and the vineyard. It will be an evening
of foot stomping music in the vineyard lit by the nearly full moon, a
bonfire and tiki torches. Enjoy the music, food, and wine in the glow of
a moonlit vineyard setting.
A shuttle van returns you to the winery. It runs on demand until midnight.
For more information
and tickets call or email Meramec
Vineyards: 573.265.7847 or
email mervine@fidnet.com. $60 for two includes ride and shuttle return, music,
and "basket" with goodies. $35 for a
single ticket includes the basket of goodies and one bottle of wine. Meramec Vineyards is located one mile east of
the I-44 St. James Exit (195) on Highway B (the north outer road). Their wood building with the green roof faces
the Interstate.
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Meramec
Vineyards 600 State Route B St. James MO 65559
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