The third in our series of award winning wines from the Mid-American Wine Competition comes from South Dakota. After tasting this wine during the 2010 MAWC, I was impressed with the expertly crafted Concord wine expressing everything desirable in a Concord grape wine. Prairie Berry Winery's Calamity Jane won the “Best Off-Dry Red Wine” during this important competition.
Prairie Berry Winery (SD), Calamity Jane
Mid-American Wine Competition
Best Off-Dry Red Wine
The Wine: Calamity Jane — Our traditional sweet and fruity Concord grape wine.
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The Winery: “Our original family homestead near Mound City, South Dakota, where Great, Great Grandma Anna Pésa Vojta first made wine from the "prairie berries" she found growing nearby. Anna and her husband Jon settled in the Dakota Territory after arriving from Moravia (Czechoslovakia) in 1876 bringing their winemaking with them from the "old country."
Frances Kalda Vojta continued on with the family's wine recipes. Her son, Frank Vojta passed the winemaking gene on to Ralph Vojta, 4th generation winemaker. Ralph and his daughter Sandi Vojta turned the family winery into a commercial venture in Mobridge, South Dakota in 1998. Prairie Berry Winery relocated to its current Hill City location in 2004.
Today, Sandi is the family's 5th generation winemaker handcrafting award winning "new world" wines, using old family recipes, fruits of the prairie, grapes & honey, making more than 30 different varieties of wine.
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