Jason and Colleen Gerke are a husband and wife team from different backgrounds who came together over Missouri wine. Jason is a 5th generation farmer from Central Missouri who majored in Agriculture Journalism at...
See related story: 2015 Midwest Wine Conference Preview With the exception of the first weekend in February, the Midwest wine conference schedule runs continuously from mid-January through early March. (The only open weekend during...
On December 3rd, The Mariano’s at Halsted and Monroe in Chicago hosted a “Local Wine Craft Cider and Cheese Event.” Nine regional wineries from three Midwestern states participated in the event which was attended...
The 5th Evansville Jazz & Wine Festival, was held Sept 15 in downtown Evansville, Indiana. The event was expected to attract more than 3000, a little more than it did last year. Ten wineries...
The 9th annual Vintage Illinois, the largest wine festival in Illinois, was held September 15th and 16th at Matthiessen State Park in north-central Illinois. This year, 28 wineries participated in Vintage Illinois, the same...
The town of Augusta, Missouri has just celebrated its annual Harvest Festival. The festival opened with a concert and picnic on Friday evening at Augusta Winery and continued Saturday with a series of events...
The Illinois Wine Experience at the Illinois State Fair moved to a new indoor location this year. Nearly 20 wineries served wine to visitors in the Twilight Ballroom on the Fairgrounds in Springfield....
The Wine Experience at the Iowa State Fair was held August 9th to 19th on a hilltop on the 445 acre Iowa fair grounds in Des Moines. According to Mike White, viticulture specialist at...
On July 30th, the Illinois Grape Growers and Vintners Association and the Illinois Stewardship Alliance hosted “Locavores Drink Local” at the Kendall College River Works Campus in Chicago. Illinois varietals were paired with foods...
The Vintage Ohio festival took place over Friday and Saturday last week August 3 and 4, in blazing hot sunshine. Saturday’s crowd at Lake Metroparks Farmpark in Kirtland, Ohio was the larger of the...