Midwest Wine Industry Grows 5%
Figures due to be released by Nielsen at the Midwest Grape & Wine Conference will show that the region’s wine industry continues to grow at an overall rate of 5%. Liz Crews, Analytic Lead for...
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Frontenac Outgrows Wild Youth
The Frontenac wine grape started with a graduate student on a canoe trip. While paddling through the suburbs of Minneapolis during 1976, a University of Minnesota graduate student named Patrick Pierquet found the wild...
I80 Wine Tour Through Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska
This article is the second installment of a two-part article about wine tourism along Interstate 80 in the Midwest. In the first article, we visited Ohio and Indiana. Now join us on a winery...
Travel Down a River of Grapes
Homepage photo: Rocky Waters Vineyard in Hanover, Illinois, along the Mississippi River. Since long before human settlement, wild grapes grew in abundance along the Mississippi River. The grape species known as Vitus Riparia- which...
2013 Harvest Report: MO, IA, KS, NE, OH
Vineyards across the Midwest are preparing to bring in the last of their grapes. Compared to 2012’s drought and frost affected yields, many vineyards are reporting bigger crops and good quality fruit. However, too...
Iowa Wine Industry Just Beginning to Blossom
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...
Dow, Monsanto Respond to Herbicide Drift Damage
Midwest Wine Press has written and reprinted a number of herbicide drift damage stories. Herbicides that travel from corn and soybean fields into vineyards are a significant problem for Midwestern grape growers. In addition...
Updated ’14 Midwest Wine Conference Schedule, Recaps, Photos
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...
Breezy Hill’s Darrell Morse Passes Away
Breezy Hill Vineyard’s Darrell Morse passed away on August 20th. Darrell’s first harvest was in 2005 and he and his wife, Roberta, lived on the Winery property since 1975 raising four children. Darrell was...
First Driftless Experimental Wine Festival Set for Fall
The first Driftless Experimental Wine Festival will be held on October 20, 2013 at Fergedaboutit Vineyard and Winery in Hanover Illinois (near Galena.) The event is the brainchild of Gerald Podraza of Mount Hope Vineyard in...