Breaking wine news: Baehmann leaves Mount Pleasant for Chaumette
Mark is incredibly passionate about wine, but even more so, he’s been a key figure in the evolution in quality of Norton and other native and hybrid grapes that are grown in Missouri. (Plus Mount Pleasant has long been an experimenter with vinifera grapes; I have to wonder if this will carry over to Chaumette.)
I wish mark and Chaumette owner Hank Johnson the best and can’t wait to once again join them to have acid profiles and vining configurations sketched out on napkins while we enjoy the fruits of their labors.




Joe Bonwich has been the restaurant critic for the Post-Dispatch since 2002 and has covered the local food scene for various publications for more than 25 years. He does his best to maintain his anonymity so that he isn't recognized in restaurants (which is why his picture looks like it does).