A Norwegian news report today announced the first wine grapes have ripened and were harvested at a research facility in Pasvik in Finnmark, Norway, which is approximately 70 degrees north latitude. To give you...
Wine Compliance Alliance has produced a timely overview of what the TTB shut down means and how it effects wineries: See: What Can and Can’t Be Down While the TTB is Shutdown
Blake Gray writes in wine.searcher.com that lenders in California are scrutinizing water rights before granting loans for new vineyard plantings. Furthermore, Paso Robles wells are running dry as the water level has dropped 70...
Vintage Illinois 2013 was held at Mattheissen State Park near Starved Rock State Park on Saturday and Sunday, September 21 and 22, 2013. Total attendance was in excess of 10,000 for both days,...
Native American grapes don’t make great wine (Norton excluded) but they do withstand cold and disease better than most wine grapes. Now, according to winesearcher.com., the French National Institute of Agronomic Research is crossing...
There are two newsworthy developments on the Midwest’s largest wine trail in terms of wineries (25) and probably sales volume too. Recently, the Leelanau Peninsula Vintners Association (LPVA) named Lorri Hathaway as Director and...
The headline to this story is probably an over statement, but as reported in Midwest Producer, the Nebraska wine industry is doing well. Under it first full time executive director, Jennifer Montgomery, Nebraska wine...
There’s an excellent new video from Cornell University on how hybrid wine grapes are developed. Most of the breeding is done using a process that’s been around since at least the 19th century (no...
KCRG-TV ran a nice story about how the leveling off in the number of Iowa wineries might be helping the industry. An interesting factoid from the article is that wineries are now on the...
This story and the list of Restaurants and Retailers offering Illinois wine was updated during May of 2014. Illinois wine is being sold at over 40 restaurants and 177 retailers in Northern Illinois, according to a recent...