Ohio Ice Wine Festival Draws Thousands
For Ohio wine fans who like a bit of sweetness, the Grand River Ice Wine Festival is more than a progressive tasting–it’s an annual celebration. This year’s fest marked the 10th annual tribute to...
Author: Mary Mihaly
The Wine School Boom
If it seems that half of your colleagues in the wine industry have taken up some form of wine education, you’re not imagining things. Enrollment in wine schools is up, thanks in large part...
Urban Vineyards Sprouting in the Midwest
Driving through Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood, the last thing you’d expect to come upon is a vineyard. Hough has long been one of Cleveland’s most distressed areas, site of the notorious ‘Hough riots” – the...
Growing Organic Wine Grapes in The Midwest
Frontenac Grapes at Famous Fossil Winery, Freeport, Ill. Until the Japanese beetles came, Famous Fossil Vineyard & Winery in Freeport, Illinois was certified biodynamic. That status changed in July, 2011, after Ken Rosmann discovered the...
License To Steal: Wine Marketing Summit in Ohio
Creating a buzz about wine was on every participant’s mind at ‘License to Steal 2012,” a national wine marketing conference in Geneva-on-the-Lake, Ohio. More than 100 winemakers, distributors, and promoters came to this wine-country...
Geneva Ohio Wine and Culinary Center Moving Forward
The recent ‘Dare to Pair: the Chefs’ Challenge” was intended to silence the skeptics of the proposed wine and culinary center to be built on the site of a former schoolhouse in the town of...
Midwest Wine Appearing in More Top Restaurants
The event was an upscale food expo in Cleveland. I was pouring wine samples; the fellow pouring at the next table owned an award-winning winery in northeast Ohio. Our conversation turned to restaurant wine...
Wineries and B&B’s – A Good Mix?
It’s hard to imagine a prettier setting for a winery than the Old Mission Peninsula in northern Michigan, with layers of gentle hills spilling into Grand Traverse Bay. Edward O’Keefe Sr. was the first...