Mount Pleasant Estates hosts weddings, corporate outings, team meetings, rehearsal dinners, reunions and milestone parties for up to 200 guests indoors, with outdoor spaces on the same campus. The winery sits on the bluffs above the Missouri River Valley in Augusta, Missouri, and is the oldest winery in the town.
Seminars and company events
Companies use the estate for group meetings, celebrations of results, planning days for the year ahead, retirement and appreciation dinners, and club gatherings. The Crush Room suits a meeting or a smaller dinner, and the Terrace Room takes larger groups. The campus is open for private events every day, from a simple rental of the Crush Lounge to a full corporate event. Tastings and tours for groups of 20 or more can be added to the program. An events team plans each function with the client.
Weddings and receptions
Mount Pleasant hosts weddings all year, with indoor and outdoor spaces for the ceremony and the reception. The ceremony sites look out over the river valley, and the underground wine cellars are often used for a first look before the ceremony. Historic buildings from the 1800s stand across landscaped grounds, which gives photographers several settings within a short walk. The estate also hosts rehearsal dinners, bridal luncheons and showers.
Rooms and capacities
The Terrace Room, also called the Terrace Ballroom, seats up to 200 guests at round banquet tables, with upholstered cane back chairs included in the rental. It has a wood-burning fireplace and chandeliers, and opens onto a deck with string lights and views over the river valley. Fire pits are set out on cooler evenings in season.
The Crush Room, in one of the historic buildings, seats up to 40 guests in a single room, with an adjoining room for 20 more. Windows on several sides and two sets of French doors bring in daylight, and one set opens onto patio seating.
Catering
Catering is offered by the estate together with the venue. The Appellation Café operates on the campus, and the estate's own wines, grown in the Augusta Appellation, are served at events. The Tasting Room and the Crush Lounge complete the hospitality spaces. In season, the patio over the valley hosts public live music on some weekends, so private outdoor plans should take the event calendar into account.
History and setting
Brothers George and Frederick Muench, who came from Germany, founded Mount Pleasant Winery as a commercial wine business in 1859. The original cellars, dug by hand and finished in 1881, were built from wood and local limestone. An oven house on the property made the bricks used for the foundations of the first winery buildings. Augusta is the first wine-growing district designated by the federal government in the United States, and the campus is where that first American Viticultural Area was signed. The estate's wines have won medals at the World Wine Championships.
Getting there
Augusta lies in St. Charles County, in the Missouri River valley west of St. Louis. St. Louis Lambert International Airport is the nearest major airport.
