Midwest wineries have been winning medals at California wine competitions with such regularity that it’s hardly surprising any longer. However, the way St. James Winery in Missouri dominated the recent Pacific Rim competition in...
The Missouri Wine and Grape Board and the University of Missouri’s Grape and Wine Institute are partnering with the University of Georgia and the Vineyard and Winery Association of West Georgia to help rebuild...
Several recent media reports have focused on how the winter we are all trying to forget has affected the Michigan Merlot crop. There’s only about one hundred acres of Merlot in Michigan, so it’s...
Missouri’s three biggest wineries estimate winter bud loss for their grapevines at between 10% and 60%. With bud break poised to begin across the Midwest, the extent of winter damage is becoming clearer. There...
Many growers of French hybrid and vinifera grapes across Kansas and parts of Missouri are confident that the long, cold winter has had little effect on their vines. However, generally the cold weather has...
Research by geographers based in the United States and the United Kingdom suggests that the Midwest’s biggest wine drinkers could live in the Upper Peninsular area of Michigan. The geographers used what they call “an...
The most recent episode of NBC’s Park and Recreation is about Midwest Wine, in a manner of speaking. The vineyards and winery don’t exactly look like Indiana, but the send up of wine snobbery...
A team of researchers, led by Professor Bill Gartner from the University of Minnesota, has found that the price of wine in Midwest winery tasting rooms does not impact on sales. The research particularly...
From the Iowa Grape Growers Association comes confirmation that the economic impact of the state’s wine industry has grown rapidly in the past five years. Wine tourism is the primary reason for the increase...
No big surprises in this story from the Ashtabula Star Beacon, but we’re starting to see some quantification of the losses in the Lake Erie growing area. See: Ashtabula Growers Prepare for Huge Losses