A winery, then a home, then a winery again

The building went up in the early 1850s for Michael Eberlin. Wine on the ground floor, family on the two above it.

Eberlin died shortly after it was finished. His brother-in-law, Jacob Colling, moved in with his wife to raise the five Eberlin children, and took over the winery along with them.

The farm was much larger then, and grew two things: grapes on the hills and wheat on the flat. By 1870 Colling was making more than two thousand gallons of wine a year, and the winery had become the family’s main income.

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The house stayed in the family for the next century and a half. The last two remaining sisters sold it in the spring of 2023. By then nobody had lived in it for decades and it needed everything.

Clint and Beth Osler bought it that year. They came from Kansas City with deep roots in Hermann, and with one goal: to make it a winery again.

Wine has been made in this building for most of its life. The gap was the unusual part.

Today the ground floor is a working winery again, the upper floors host guests rather than a family, and the wines are named after the women who came before us. You can meet them here.