On February 21st, Dr. Imed Dami, Associate Professor of Horticulture and Crop Science at OSU, updated participants of the Ohio Wine and Grape Conference on research findings of OSU’s “Winegrape Variety Evaluation Trials.” Dami...
Ohio’s 2011 growing season and harvest was one of the wettest on record. ‘It was the worst harvest I’ve seen in 30 years. We had 75 inches of rain,” says Nick Ferrante, owner and...
The “Other 46” Local Wine Blog at www.theother46.com posted an effusively enthusiastic review of Kinkead Ridge ’10 Riesling recently. Midwest Wine Press does not normally post wine reviews, but Kinkead Ridge is for sale and...
Jay McInerney’s story yesterday in the Wall Street Journal looks at the increasing influence of sommeliers in shaping consumer wine tastes. (And the welcome decline of Robert Parker.) Today’s somms are all about food...
As more people seek their region’s local foods to purchase, more than 1,000 new farmers markets began operating across the country last year. As of mid-2011, 7,175 farmers markets were recorded, reports the U.S....
Sitting side by side in the Weinland Park area of Columbus, Ohio’s trendy Short North, Brothers Drake Meadery and Middle West Spirits share a lot more than location. They share a goal that’s familiar to...
Editor’s note: The author, Danny Wood, is an Australian who recently moved to the Kansas City from Spain via San Francisco. Apart from being a wine lover, he’s a former BBC News reporter and a history documentary...
Danny Wood’s new Kansas City based wine website, “Regional Wine Taster” does not pull any punches regarding the lack of local wines being served at Kansas City’s top restaurants. Wood reports that many KC...
Editor’s Note: Midwest Wine Press columnist Bruce Bradley quit his position as winemaker for Wm. Harrison Winery in Napa Valley and took a wine making job at Pacific Star Winery, twelve miles north of...
The recent ‘Dare to Pair: the Chefs’ Challenge” was intended to silence the skeptics of the proposed wine and culinary center to be built on the site of a former schoolhouse in the town of...