It is our goal to make wine the traditional way with help from current technology.  Our wines will find favor to the novice and the experienced wine drinker.

The initial intent of the Wine Barn was to grow grapes for sale.  Demands by friends to sell our wines as well as success in local competitions, inspired our quest to develop a winery. We opened our doors for business in May 2009. At that time the Hiatt’s and the Coco’s were partners in the business. Since then, the Hiatt family has acquired ownership.  Their daughter and son-in-law, Celeste and Brian Mikijanis, are now helping in the business.  Mr. Coco now directs his time to being the winemaker and mentoring the Hiatt family on making wine.

Mr. Coco has been making hobby wine for over 25 years.  Mr. Hiatt has been making wine for about 10 years.  Hobby wine making was previously performed in the cellar of the Coco residence for over a dozen years with a number of friends participating in the production of wine for their own use.

 
The actual Wine Barn building was completed in 2007 and all equipment was moved to the facility in the summer of 2007.  The facility has been developed to provide a winery and tasting room.  Our first vintage in 2008 produced over 500 gallons of Kansas grown grapes and fruit wine along with vinifera and French hybrid grapes. 

STONEHEDGE Vineyard has mostly French Hybrid grapes of four different varieties with St. Vincent being the largest quantity.  Additions of Noriet and vinifera varieties of Cabernet Franc, Riesling and Vidal complete this small vineyard.
HOTT SCIATT Vineyard was started in 2006 and boasts of 10 different varieties to include French Hybrid vinifera and American Native grapes.  The largest planting is of Norton and Chambourcin grapes.  We have also introduced Zweigelt, an Australian vinifera grape to the area.  This vineyard now extends to over 5 acres.

Our Kansas grape wines are augmented by fruit wines also from the State of Kansas.  Our signature apple pear blend has been received well in competitions and wine tasting for many years.  Other wines such a blackberry, raspberry and other fruit wines are produced as weather and production warrant.

The Wine Barn also compliments our Kansas grown wines with selected varieties from vinifera grape from California.  In this was we can offer our customers a divers selection of wines satisfying to anyone’s palate

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The Wine Barn offers free samples so that you can try the fine wines, and drink what you like

 
 

 

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