Danny Wood’s new Kansas City based wine website, “Regional Wine Taster” does not pull any punches regarding the lack of local wines being served at Kansas City’s top restaurants. Wood reports that many KC...
The Viticulture Enology Science and Technology Alliance (VESTA) program, in which I am an instructor, has a 21st century educational vision for grape growing, winemaking and winery marketing. In my VESTA ‘Winery Tasting Room...
Here in Minnesota and across much of the Upper Midwest we have had two dramatic frost damage events in the past year and a half. One on Mother’s Day Weekend in Spring 2010 and...
Many wine enthusiasts are wondering about the he 2011 Honorary Jefferson Cup Invitational Wine Competition Award that went to “2008 My Three Sons Norton” from Missouri. We can report that the wine was...
The Jefferson Cup Wine Invitational Competition winners have been announced. The Jefferson Cup Invitational celebrated its twelfth year as the only competition that honors the best of the best among wineries from all of...
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...
Just because a winery is new or small does not mean its business model is simple. Consider Seven Springs Winery which has been in business only three and one half years and sells...
Effective November 28, 2011, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau approved the names of certain varietals as requested by various breeders, vineyards and wineries in the Midwest. Under the TTB ruling,...
The wine trail concept is exploding! From California to Maine there are 251 wine trails across the USA with 1878 wineries making up these trails in 43 states. Wine trails are made up of...
As of March of this year, 72.5 million Americans owned smartphones, up 15% from the preceding three-month period. Taking advantage of this trend is America’s Wine Trails, a St. Louis based company started in...