80% of the wineries in the Northern and Upper Midwestern USA registered and opened for business since the year 2000, new data shows. A team of researchers, led by Professor Bill Gartner from the University of Minnesota’s...
Homepage photo: Cyndy Keesee and Steffie Littlefield. Edg-Clif Farms & Vineyard, a 550 plus acre property in Potosi, Missouri, is a winery with a unique focus. In 2008, after soil tests revealed that the...
Ernie Wilmink, owner of AgriOzein, the Nebraska based company that designs and builds ozonators, has come a long way since Midwest Wine Press last spoke with him during early 2013. There’s now growing evidence that...
Despite the difficult weather, hundreds of winemakers, craft brewers and vendors turned out for the Midwest Grape & Wine + Craft Brew Conference in St. Charles, Missouri, February 4-7. The event was the first...
Equipped with a microphone and the sartorial elegance of his Hawaiian style shirt, Michael Jones opened this talk confessing he wouldn’t be using a Powerpoint presentation. The veteran winemaker and fermentation specialist with California based...
I had a dream. The year was 1965 in California. I was observing wine pioneer Robert Mondavi who had just been fired by his family’s winery (something that happened in our real world too)....
Wines & Vines magazine reports that during the last year the total number of wineries in the United States has increased from 7,498 to 7,762. Quoting research from their 2014 Directory & Buyer’s Guide,...
Earlier this month, the Kansas Grape Growers & Winemakers Association (KGGWA) held their annual conference in Topeka. The KGGWA is the bigger of two wine industry groups in the state – the other is...
Figures due to be released by Nielsen at the Midwest Grape & Wine Conference will show that the region’s wine industry continues to grow at an overall rate of 5%. Liz Crews, Analytic Lead for...
The Midwest Grape & Wine Conference – the biggest wine event in the region – starts on February 4th in St. Charles, Missouri. Danene Beedle, marketing director for the Missouri Wine & Grape Board...