Brettanomyces yeast makes for stinky wines but good beer according to the Chicago Foodies website: “Kansas City’s Boulevard Brewing’s Saison-Brett, their saison farmhouse ale brewed with that dangerous wild yeast…it’s truly a remarkable beer.” More...
St. Julian Winery in Paw Paw Michigan is the first winery in the Midwest to be featured on Winestyr.com. Winestyr is a Chicago based internet platform that partners with smaller wineries across the...
The Iowa Tourism Office is running ads featuring Iowa wine in Chicago, Kansas City and Minneapolis, according to Coleen Murphy, Partnerships Manager at the Iowa Tourism Office. The ads are appearing in national...
On Interstate 55 heading south from St. Louis into Missouri wine country, there’s a clever billboard from the Missouri Wine & Grape Board imploring drivers to “Shop Local, Sip Local.” But before there were “local” movements...
This is the first column from Midwest Wine Press publisher Mark Ganchiff. Ganchiff started Midwest Wine Press in September 2011. He has traveled all over the Midwest during the past eight years visiting hundreds of...
Chicagoan Bill St. John is a great wine writer but he apparently does not drink Midwest regional wine. (If he does, he certainly does not write about Midwest wine often, if ever.) In today’s...
For the Fourth of July, StarChefs.com found recommendations for wineries in all 50 states. See: http://www.starchefs.com/cook/wine/crush/american-wine-every-state. Among the fun info contained in this article is a winery in Homer, Alaska and restaurant in Atlanta...
Nearly 400 wines were presented at the Illinois State Fair Wine Competition in Springfield, Illinois which was held June 25 through June 27th. Galena Cellars Vineyard and Winery in Galena, Illinois captured three of...
The Traverse City Art and Wine Festival was held June 30th at the Grand Traverse Commons. Twenty seven wineries from the Leelanau Peninsula, Old Mission Peninsula, Traverse City and Benzie, Michigan, participated. The 2012...
What’s the first thing a visitor usually sees at a Midwest Winery? Dogs are the unofficial greeters at many Midwest wineries so Midwest Wine Press is having a contest for the Midwest Winery Dog...