Midwest Wine Press

Cold Climate Grapes on the Upswing

by · February 26, 2015

Bill Ward of the Minneapolis Star Tribune is a shoo in for the Midwest wine writer Hall of Fame.  Mark Fisher of the Dayton Daily News would also be eligible for induction as would Doug Frost who writes occasionally for the The Kansas City Star.  All these wine writers are heavyweights who mix coverage of established wine regions with coverage of the Midwest wine industry.

Bill wrote a great story about cold climate grapes this week in the Star-Tribune. Lorri Hathaway’s comment to Bill caught my attention as a tactful admission that two consecutive years without much of a harvest is going to result in a re-messaging of Midwest regional wine.

See: Cold Climate Grapes on the Upswing 

 

 

Mark Ganchiff

Mark Ganchiff is the publisher of Midwest Wine Press, the leading source of news on the growing wine industry in the central United States. Mark has been a wine judge at the 2012 and 2014 INDY International Wine Competition, the 2014 Cold Climate Wine Competition, the 2013 Mid-American Wine Competition, the 2012 Illinois State Fair Wine Competition and the 2013 Michigan Wine Competition. He also enjoys speaking at wine events including the Cold Climate Wine Conference, the Illinois Grape Growers and Vintners Association Annual Meeting, the Midwest Grape and Wine Conference and the Wisconsin Fruit and Vegetable Conference. Mark's articles about regional wine have appeared in Vineyard & Winery Management, WineMaker and several regional magazines. Mark is a Level One Sommelier in the Court of Master Sommeliers. He lives in Louisville, but also has a residence in Chicago.

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