S. Michigan Low Pressure Won’t Quit
The big “L”on the weather map that has been parked over southern Lake Michigan for the past 10 days is delaying this year’s Southern Michigan harvest according to Rocky Rick, President of Gravity Produce...
Monthly Archive: September 2011
Iowa State University Releases Iowa Production Report
The rapid expansion of the Iowa wine industry is slowing according to Craig Tordsen, a Project Manager at Iowa State University and the author a newly released study on Iowa Native Wine Production and...
Minnesota Growing Season Taxing
The Minnesota growing season started and ended with unusually cold weather according to John Marshall, owner of Great River Vineyard and Nursery in Lake City, Minnesota. Most notably, on September 15th, an early...
Iowa Harvest Underway
According to Mike White, Iowa State University Extension Viticulturalist, 80% of the crop in Iowa has now been harvested. Both yields and quality appear to favorable for 2011 he added. No early frost...
Vintage Illinois Sets Single Day Attendance Record
Vintage Illinois drew over 8,000 visitors on Saturday, September 17th according to Jill Joyce, Vintage Illinois Planning Committee member. Vintage Illinois is in its 8th year and is held annually Mattheissen State Park near...
Sparkling in the Midwest: L. Mawby and Ravenhurst Cellars
Champagne is wine’s outgoing cousin — sparkling, fun, the life of the party — which may be why a number of Midwest wine makers are adding champagnes and sparkling wines to their product lineup....
Cedar Creek Opens First Winery in Morgan County Indiana
Since 1989, Larry Elsner has enjoyed success as a professional carpenter, home builder and remodeler. In January 2010, Larry took his business ambitions in a completely different direction when he formed Cedar Creek Winery....
Arnie Esterer: Father of Ohio’s Vinifera Adventure
‘We tasted a lot of wines and I wanted [to grow] something I could drink with my dinner,” Arnie Esterer, owner of Markko Vineyard in Conneaut, Ohio replied when asked why he started Markko...
Joe Mills on Wine and Poetry
Joseph Robert Mills, poet, essayist, dramatist, critic, has the credentials of a professor whom you might expect to find nibbling at cheeses and sniffing wine at the faculty club. Growing up in Indiana, he...