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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Chilling Report On Arctic Cold Damage in Ohio
According to Northern Ohio’s News Herald, this week’s arctic cold did significant damage to vineyards near Lake Erie. Hundreds of acres of vinifera wine grapes have been planted around the Great Lakes in the...
Freeze Damage Concerns In Minnesota
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...
Bandwagon Builds For Michigan Wine
Earlier this week, big time wine blogger Tom Wark came close to saying he’s excited about Michigan wine in his Fermentation wine blog. Not to be outdone, New York Times wine writer Eric Asimov...
Traverse City Wine Food Predictions
From Traverse City based writer Andy MacFarlane and eatdrinkTC.com come some interesting predictions for ’14 including: 1. The 60 person elevated deck at Brys Estate will open in ’14, as reported this summer in...
Chi-Beria Today Photos
These photos don’t have anything to do with grapes or wine. However, after reading an editorial in today’s Chicago Tribune questioning why anyone would live here, I felt compelled to speak for those of...
Big Blogger Accepting Midwest Wines
Tom Wark of Fermentation wine blog fame is starting to come around to regional wine. Although Wark is surpassed only by Blake Gray of the The Gray Report in his use of the first...
Top Seven Stories of 2013
2013 was a very good year for Midwest Wine Press because you, our valued readers, almost doubled the number of pageviews compared to 2012. On top of that, during the year ending December 21,...
$1.5 Million Raised for “Teaching Winery” in Missouri
According to the Columbia Missourian, the University of Missouri is about half way funded for a new $3m teaching winery. The new wine and food education facility is tentatively set to open in late...
2013 Illinois Wine Events Draw Over 38,000
During 2013, the Illinois Grape Growers and Vintner’s Association (IGGVA) hosted or sponsored a dozen events for the advancement of the Illinois Wine Industry. These events drew over 38,000 attendees, according to the IGGVA....