Pirtle Winery

a family-owned winery and meadery established in 1978 in Weston, Missouri (Platte County), housed in an 1867 Evangelical Lutheran church building at 502 Spring St. One of the oldest continuously operating wineries in the Kansas City metro’s Missouri side, and a founding-era business of the modern Missouri wine industry.

| Website | https://www.pirtlewinery.com || | Phone | | pending |

Description

Pirtle Winery occupies a former Evangelical Lutheran church built by German immigrants in 1867.¹ The building holds an indoor cellar with a wine bar on the first floor and a tasting room and gift shop on the second, with a vine-covered garden adjoining. Production and bottling happen in a separate building across the street.¹

The winery describes itself as “a small, quality-oriented winery.”¹ It is known regionally for mead alongside grape wine — a product line unusual among Missouri wineries of its vintage and one that predates the current mead revival by decades.

The German-immigrant church building is not incidental. Weston’s 19th-century commercial and religious building stock is the town’s principal draw, and Pirtle’s reuse of it is of a piece with the Weston Brewing Company cellars a few blocks away — both are working businesses inside preserved German-American infrastructure rather than museum pieces.

Ownership and history

Founded in 1978 in Weston and family-owned and operated by the Pirtle family since.¹ The 1978 founding places it among the earliest wineries of Missouri’s post-Prohibition wine revival, which followed the state’s first modern bonded wineries of the 1960s–70s.

Independence: No corporate parent, investor group, or out-of-state owner identified. Presented on its own site as a small family operation.

Menu

Status: pending. No first-party wine list or price sheet captured. Wine and mead lists should be transcribed directly from pirtlewinery.com on a menu pass.

Links

• Website: https://www.pirtlewinery.com
• Our Story: https://www.pirtlewinery.com/our-story

Sources

See also

• omalleys-1842-pub-weston
• Registry

Footnotes

1. Pirtle Winery — “Our Story,” official site — asserts: established 1978 in Weston, Missouri; family-owned and operated; housed in a former Evangelical Lutheran church built by German immigrants in 1867; production and bottling in a separate building across the street; indoor cellar with wine bar, second-floor tasting room and gift shop, adjoining garden; address 502 Spring Street, Weston, MO 64098; self-description as “a small, quality-oriented winery.” ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴