Hill Prairie Winery

Hill Prairie Winery is a family owned and operated business on land settled back in the 1800s. As a farming family, we appreciate the native Illinois prairie and following decades of traditional crops, we carved out some acreage to grow a variety of grapes to make some very special wine.

The present day site of the vineyard is surrounded by native Illinois prairie grasses. The grasses have been restored to look much like original Illinois prairie that greeted our ancestors when they arrived to settle this area. Since the time of the settlers and the advent of the steel plow, the natural prairie slowly disappeared. It was plowed under to make way for the cultivation of grain and...