The University of Wisconsin has staffed a new “outreach specialist” who will work to support the state’s growing wine and hard cider industry. ‘This person will work closely with the wine and cider producers...
The Northern Grapes Project received an additional $2.6 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Specialty Crops Research Initiative to complete the final two years of the multistate effort, which began in...
Travel + Leisure, a leading national travel publication with a circulation of 971,000, featured Missouri wine as a “Most Romantic Fall Getaway.” Chaumette, Cave and Les Bourgeois wineries are all mentioned in the short...
Here’s a link to a story that we’ve been dying to run: Feather River Winery in Nebraska had their largest harvest since the winery opened in 2007. According to Omaha.com, Feather River had a...
Jennifer Montgomery is the new executive director of the Illinois Grape Growers and Vintners Association (IGGVA). Most recently, Jennifer was the executive director of the Nebraska Winery and Grape Growers Association. Current IGGVA executive...
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...
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...
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...