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City Winery Chicago Making Michigan Riesling

by · December 10, 2013

According to winemaker Robert Kowal,  City Winery in Chicago will be bottling a Riesling made exclusively from Michigan grapes during spring of 2014. The juice for the wine came from Left Foot Charlie in Traverse City who gets his fruit from a number of Northern Michigan growers.

Kowal moved to Chicago in 2012 to become the winemaker at City Winery, one of only two wine producers in Chicago.  Wild Blossom Meadery and Winery in Beverly is the other.  Mogen David once had a large wine production facility in Chicago, but appears to have relocated to New York during the 70’s.

Previously, Kowal left a television production career in Hawaii in 1995 and moved to Oregon where he worked as an assistant winemaker at Bethel Heights Winery.  While in Oregon, he also developed his own label.

See related story: Left Foot Charlie is on the Right Path

 

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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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