Middle Creek Winery – Over the Rainbow in Kansas
At Middle Creek Winery in Louisburg, Kansas, the trees are bending to blustery, autumnal winds. As if to emphasize the drama of a visit from Midwest Wine Press, a tree snaps and crashes to...
Monthly Archive: November 2012
New Kansas Law Provides Bottle Sales at Events
Kansas wineries are very excited at the new regulatory developments in our state. A law was recently passed to allow farm wineries to sell by the bottle at events across the state. Samples must...
Six Ways to Maximize Winery Holiday Sales
How has your year been? Holiday sales can help end the year for your winery on a high note. It’s easy for wineries to get lost in the shopping frenzy. To stand out from...
Michigan Wine Wire
Tough Choices for Juice Grape Growers Many labrusca grape growers in Southwest Michigan are taking a long, hard look at their books right now and wondering if they should change their crops for next...
Baltimore Bend Vineyard’s Standout Vignoles
During the drive back from a weekend trip in Missouri, Midwest Wine Press dropped in on family owned, Baltimore Bend Vineyard and Winery in Waverly. Still an hour from home near Kansas City, a...
Missouri’s Newest Wine Trail Hosts First Event
The Mississippi River Hills Wine Trail, has its first event this weekend. The food and wine pairing celebration, ‘A Taste of the Holidays,” is taking place from 12 to 5 p.m. today and Sunday. The six wineries...
Marquette Wows Napa Wine Judges
Marquette, the cold-hardy hybrid grape planted across the Midwest, has wowed a panel of Napa wine experts. The California based online wine publication, Appellation America, gathered a panel to taste Marquette wines from 11...
Michigan Doubles Wine Grape Acreage
The Michigan Grape and Wine Industry Council says the state’s wine grape acreage doubled over the past decade from 1,300 to 2,650 acres. The data comes from a USDA report based on the 2011 Michigan Fruit...
Michigan By The Bottle Opening Detroit Tasting Room
The founders of “Michigan By The Bottle”, a Detroit based internet wine publication, announced that they are partnering with six Michigan wineries to open a retail tasting room in the northern suburbs of Detroit...
Overuse of Multiple Trunks
When I began growing grapes in the 1970s at an experimental vineyard near my father’s orchard, it was routine to train vines to more than one trunk, a practice known today as ‘multiple trunks.”...