The Cold Climate Conference Winter Wine Fest was a delight for the senses. Fabulous Minnesota wines from all over the state were served alongside delectable bites and samples of food from a wide variety...
The 2014 Wisconsin Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Conference led to the typical dissemination and confluence -or occasional clash- of ideas that makes a conference of this nature so infectious. Although, it has been argued...
Michael Drash has been hired as winemaker at Chankaska Creek Winery in Kasota, MN. Drash has extensive winemaking experience in California, including assistant winemaker at Far Niente Winery and at his own winery, Tallulah...
This article is sponsored by Harvest Energy Solutions, based in Jackson, Michigan. Harvest Energy Solutions serves agribusiness customers in the Midwest with solar products, installation and solar assessments. The amount of solar energy reaching...
When discussing wine, it is close to fatal to suggest a wine is a Labrusca or even has some Labrusca characteristics. Winemakers, enthusiasts and sommeliers will drop the discussion like it was a cold that is...
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...
This week’s cold did not break records in Minnesota, but that does not mean that the weather did not get cold enough to kill or damage plants, including grapes. Temperatures got as low as...
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...
One of the best paragraphs in the Great Gatsby is about the Midwest: “That’s my middle-west- not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns but the thrilling, returning trains of my...
According to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal, Four Daughters Winery in Spring Valley is increasing production to 27,000 per year with the addition of new tank capacity. See: Minnesota Winery Doubles Production Midwest Wine...