On July 12, 2012 Eckert’s Country Store and Restaurant in Belleville, Illinois hosted a wine and food pairing demonstration with Montelle Winery and Augusta Winery, both from Missouri. Eckert’s is a seventh generation family...
Michigan By The Bottle reports that the Blustone Vineyards tasting room will open this summer. Blustone has been growing grapes on the Leelanau Peninsula for seven years and will produce approximately 3,000 cases per...
Michigan State University reports that popular blender GR7 is getting a new name: Geneva Red. The MSU report says that TTB has approved the name for use on wine labels. “GR” stands for the...
Mount Pleasant Estates Winery in Augusta, MO reported record sales for fiscal year 2011. Sales increased 19% on a year-over-year basis to $3.55 million for 2011. Both retail and event sales increased during...
Motivating non wine drinkers to give wine a try is a common challenge for regional winery owners. Sleepy Creek Vineyards in Illinois has now come up with a novel way to make wine...
During 1992, a new grape variety was discovered by Peter Hemstad in the vineyard at the University of Minnesota’s Horticulture Research Center. According to Katie Cook, enology project leader at the University of Minnesota,...
Brettanomyces yeast makes for stinky wines but good beer according to the Chicago Foodies website: “Kansas City’s Boulevard Brewing’s Saison-Brett, their saison farmhouse ale brewed with that dangerous wild yeast…it’s truly a remarkable beer.” More...
St. Julian Winery in Paw Paw Michigan is the first winery in the Midwest to be featured on Winestyr.com. Winestyr is a Chicago based internet platform that partners with smaller wineries across the...
I am on a mission to encourage wineries to focus on their websites. Having a mobile friendly website can have a huge impact on the number of visits to your business. A simple...
Publisher’s note: This article is the fourth installment in a four-part series for winemakers by Nick Smith with the Enology Laboratory at the University of Minnesota. In this article on heat stability, the basic...