Sandi Vojta, wine maker at the Prairie Berry Winery in Hill City, joins the program. When the Vojta family left Moravia, Czechoslovakia in 1876 to move to the plains of South Dakota, they established a tradition of leaving the comfort zone behind and striking off into new territory. Sandi Vojta, Prairie Berry's fifth generation winemaker, is continuing that tradition. She started making wine on a commercial level in the basement of her father's house in Mobridge, S.D., completing her first commercial wine in 1999. The winery was relocated from Mobridge to south of Rapid City on Highway 79 in 2001 and moved to Hill City in 2004. Vojta has taken the wild wines that have been part of her family for generations and wowed judges, wine connoisseurs and the neighbors down the road.
Sandi Vojta
