Sangria for the heart and the palate

Handcrafted Estate wines from hand picked grapes.

Hearty Barrel-Aged Chambourcin and Norton wines

Table Grapes from the Carbondale  countryside.

Monte Alegre is the only vineyard and winery within the city of Carbondale, in Southern Illinois. Come stroll down Carbondale Trail and taste the wines grown in this beautiful region of the heartland.

Monte Alegre Vineyard and Ponce Cellars offer spectacular vineyard views and prime red and white wines that have made Southern Illinois a favorite tourist destination for wine lovers and their families throughout the Midwest. You can also degustate red Ports and Sangrias, all in a single stop.

Southern Illinois residents and tourists alike flock to this wine trail to get immersed in the beauty of growing, bottling, and degustating wine. Monte Alegre Vineyard and Ponce Cellars form the perfect stop in Southern Illinois for learning how to cultivate grapes for white and red wine, touring the wine cellars, degustating wines.

Come visit the Ponce Wine Trail and Monte Alegre Vineyard and Cellars in Carbondale, Southern Illinois!

What’s New?

  • NEW RELEASE: Chardonel 2012

    a “first” in Monte Alegre’s long wine making experience: our own version of a truly pure “May wine” (ie. no herb additions of any kind) is a Chardonel with a little Seyval Blanc mixed at crush in the fall of 2012. Fermented to dryness in stainless, at the end of...

  • Happy Easter and God’s Blessings

    Monte Alegre’s Tasting Boutique will be closed Good Friday March 29 in preparation for the Eastern Celebration. As we reflect and give thanks for our many blessings, we want to wish you and your loves ones a 2013 growing season full or rewards and happiness.  ...

  • BUY $10 GIFT CERTIFICATE for $8.50

    You can also benefit from this great promotion for a limited time! Buy a GIFT CERTIFICATE for your wine enthusiast significant other at a bargain price of $8.50 for $10 worth of wine. Available in multiples of 10 and not restricted in any way. Offer expires March 31,2013  ...

  • NEW RELEASE: Chambourcin Private Reserve 2004

    just released spring 2013 this smooth dry red table wine has been known to convert vegetarians into avid carnivores and vegans into asiago cheese fans, but regardless of your dietary persuasion this rare senior Chambourcin is a great bargain at $17.50....

  • Spring 2013 – hours

    We open Wednesday to Sunday featuring estate grown wines from Carbondale open 1 pm to 5:30 pm – Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday open 2 pm to 5:30 pm – Sunday...
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