The American sparkling house in Missouri.
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We are building the American sparkling house in Missouri, the birthplace of American wine. Méthode traditionnelle wine and cider, made the long way, on a fractured limestone shelf in Western Missouri.
The Place
A fractured limestone shelf on an east-northeastern slope in Western Missouri. Hedge buffer on the western flank. Well-draining soils. The same kind of bedrock that gives Burgundy and the Loire their tension.
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The Method
Méthode traditionnelle for both wine and cider. PIWI hybrid grapes in the vineyard, Floreal, Voltis, Itasca. A heritage cider orchard built like a wine, GoldRush, Dabinett, Yarlington Mill, Harrison, Franklin. Simonit & Sirch guyot pruning, regenerative organic farming with sheep and goats. Native ferments, neutral vessels, minimal SO₂, no shortcuts. Time as a tool.
How we make it →From the Journal
Vineyard · Aug 4, 2026
The vines in our test plot turned the corner in the last week of July. Berries softening, Brix at 11, acid still sharp, nets up, and about two weeks of hang time if the rain holds off. A short note from the part of the Missouri season that finally helps.
Vineyard · Jul 21, 2026
The plan is on paper, so July was the month things started arriving: a pallet of posts, an air-blast sprayer that barely fit in the truck, two stainless tanks for the cellar, and a tractor hunt that a five-foot row spacing made harder than it should be.
Vineyard · Jun 15, 2026
Before a single post goes in the ground, the whole estate is already mapped: every row, every vine, every tree. Here is how the soil split our three and a half acres into an orchard, a vineyard, and a block we will not plant until 2029, and why the rows are five feet apart.
Be a Part
A community-funded launch is coming. Founding members will have their names on the cellar wall, name a row, name a barrel, and shape what the first vintage feels like.
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The Founders
Matthew and Amanda Perez, with their children and a circle of family and local kids, are building a sparkling house designed to outlast them. Quality over quantity. The long way.
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