The Kentucky Vineyard Society has been approved for $515,000 in state Agricultural Development Funds to maintain the Viticulture Extension and Research Program through fiscal year 2014, which includes an extension viticulture specialist, enologist and...
The last day for accepting entry applications and wines for the Consumer Wine Awards Competition (CWA) is February 24th, 2012. “Our evaluators are every-day wine consumers that represent a complete spectrum of wine lovers...
I have finally figured out who is buried in my backyard in Chicago. It is Robert the Bruce; I can tell by looking at the grapevines, for grapevines drink the blood of the body...
Lon J. Rombough, one of the foremost authorities on North American viticulture, died Monday at age 62 of an apparent heart attack. Rombough was the author of The Grape Grower: A Guide to Organic...
Spencer Stegnega remembers his childhood filled with animals–cows, chickens, geese, sheep, even a few horses his family boarded on their 20-acre property. ‘It was a full-fledged gentleman’s farm, but I, as the youngest of...
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...
As reported in “Northwest Michigan’s Second Wave,” Verterra Winery opened on the Leelanau Peninsula during Fall 2011. Partners in the winery are retired pharmaceutical exec Paul Hamelin and Skip Telgard, owner of the Bluebird...
The Wisconsin and Minnesota wine industries have much in common. Both states specialize in cold climate grape winemaking, and both can call Elmer Swenson, the godfather of cold climate grapes, a native son. (Swenson...
The 2010 Chateau Grand Traverse Whole Cluster Riesling was included in Food and Wine magazine’s top wines by editor Megan Krigbaum. Food and Wine has a circulation of 375,000 and is one of the...
As reported by Carl Feather in the Ashtabula Star-Beacon, Ohio recently passed legislation that will increase micro-distillery permits and allow liquor to be sold in tasting rooms. According to Feather, it was area winery owners...