Winegrowing in Kansas: Vineyard Help Needed!
This is the first blog from our new columnist Cindy Reynolds. With husband Dennis, Cindy is co-owner of Somerset Ridge Vineyard & Winery in Kansas. The view of our 20 acres of wine grapes...
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Hinterland: A Great Winery Worth the Extra Mile
One of the best Midwest wine experiences is finding a gem of a winery in a rural area. And being a diamond in the boonies the business model for Hinterland Vineyards and Winery in...
New York Times Recognizes Marquette Wine
We started writing about Marquette wine during 2011, but news of this Minnesota borne grape has just now penetrated fortress Manhattan. Today, in a bit of a coup for the cold hardy wine industry,...
Purdue Launches Vineyard Tech Company
From Inside Indiana Business comes a report of a new vineyard technology company based in Lafayette, Indiana. The new company, VinSense, was developed by three members of the Purdue faculty. (Note: While judging the...
Big Southern Illinois WInery Wants a Casino License
Walker’s Bluff, a winery, restaurant, and concert entertainment center near Carbondale, Illinois is now trying to get a casino license, according to the St. Louis Post Dispatch. Midwest Wineries have gone to great lengths...
Trump Wine is for Losers
Sorry about the headline. It was an attempt at sarcasm about Donald Trump, which is impossible. Recently, the media has raised questions about the legitimacy of Trump’s Virginia Winery. (See the link to today’s Daily Beast article...
Cincinnati Winery One of Top U.S. Urban Wineries
Wine Enthusiast named Cincinnati’s Henke Winery one of top urban wineries in the United States. The magazine bestowed this honor on nine U.S. wineries and Henke is the only top urban winery located in...
How Do Midwest Consumers Define Local Wine?
Cheryl Nakata, a professor of marketing at The University of Illinois at Chicago Business School recently released an insightful study about about Midwest wine. From August 2014 through March 2015, Cheryl and Erin Peregrine...
Tom Plocher’s New Grapes Are Spreading
University grape breeding programs – like Cornell and Minnesota- grab a lot of attention. But private grape breeders continue to develop many of the grapes that are used to make cold hardy wines. One...
New Wine Fest in Door County for ’16
The inaugural Door County Wine Fest will be on Saturday, June 25, 2016 offering unlimited tasting of more than 80 different wines. This new wine fest is an event celebrating quality ‘Made in Door County”...