For 200 years, grapegrowers have been experimenting with European wine varietals in the Midwestern United States. While growing old world grapes in the Midwest will never be easy, some regions are quietly gaining an...
Midwest Wine Press does not read US Magazine often for wine news, but the Hollywood celebrity rag broke the big news yesterday about the new winery in the Traverse City area. Drum roll…..the...
In a forceful article this week, Bill St. John, wine writer of The Chicago Tribune, suddenly became decidedly in favor of Northern Michigan wines. St. John, who has mostly avoided Midwest wines in his...
According to Crain’s Detroit Business, on Tuesday the Michigan Senate passed legislation allowing Michigan wineries to offer tastings of their products at the state’s nearly 300 farmers markets. However, in order to sell wine...
Midwest wineries are the best road team in wine. Whenever our regional wineries go to national wine contests recently, a significant portion of the medals wind up coming back to the Midwest. The...
Gill’s Pier Winery in Leelanau County has been listed for $1.9 million. This price includes four acres of producing vines, the tasting room and custom 5-bedroom, 4.5-bathroom house. According to co-owner Kris Sterkenberg, “The winery...
The wineries of the Northern Loop of the Leelanau Wine Trail held their second annual New Release Competition and Tasting at Verterra Winery in Leland Michigan on Friday, April 26. Seventeen wines and three...
High quality Michigan keg wine from Domaine Berrien Cellars in Berrien Springs, MI is making its debut in Southwest Michigan this month at three favorite local restaurants: Schu’s Grill & Bar in downtown St....
A new report from Michigan State University researchers Dr. Dan McCole and Dr. Don Holecek says the number of Michigan winery tasting room visitors will increase to two million during 2013 “The last best estimate...
Wine: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Michigan wine industry. To explore strange new worlds for grapes, to seek out new terrain for viticulture and boldly go where no grape grower...