Reading over the wine grape harvest reports from various Midwest grape growing regions, it’s apparent that the Lake Erie shore between Cleveland and the Pennsylvania border had the most severe losses. As reported in...
The Northern Grapes Project (NGP) continues to advance our industry’s knowledge of the habits of Midwest wine tourists. The latest issue of Northern Grapes News, features the research of Michigan State University’s Dan McCole,...
Back in the summer of ’11, one of my first “big” Midwest Wine Press interviews was with Bill Oliver of Oliver Winery. I was excited and a little nervous to be interviewing the biggest...
This is a short review of my visit to the Fall Tour at the University of Minnesota (U of M) Horticultural Research Center on September 6, 2014. My main interest was to see how...
Howard Hewitt reports in his blog Grape Sense: A Glass Half Full that growers north of Columbus and Bloomington lost a significant number of vines this winter. Along the Ohio River the news is...
Of all the wine newsletters we receive, “Letters From Hank” is perhaps my favorite. Of course, “Hank” is Hank Johnson of Chaumette Winery in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. This month Hank writes that the secondary...
Wine crop damage as a result of last winter is widely known, but we’ve been told that the Traverse City area- namely the Old Mission and Leelanau Peninsulas- had weathered the storm in better...
For nearly three years, a small collection of Norton wines has been aging in the basement downstairs. The diminutive gathering of five bottles, all from Missouri wineries and most from the 2009 vintage, is the...
Recently, I had the opportunity to meet one of Midwest’s best wine writers at the Cold Climate Wine Competition on Minneapolis. Bill Ward is recently retired from the Minneapolis Star Tribune, although he still...
The second annual Scott Labs Cider Handbook has just been released. This years’ edition features new products and new technical articles including: Methods to Restart Stuck Cider Fermentations The Basics of Post Fermentation Cider...