Sponsored by the Minnesota Grape Growers Association (MGGA), Midwest Wine Press attended the MGGA’s recent Cold Climate Conference (CCC), in Minneapolis. The conference was an impressive affair, attracting a considerable regional audience of cold climate...
The big wine story of the week is slowing growth in wine consumption. In Wine-Searcher.com, John Gillespie of Wine Opinions opined to W. Blake Gray that wine sales might drop for the first time...
Nutrient management is key to improving fruit set, volume of wine Upper Midwest soils have always been perfect for bumper crops of corn and soybeans and are increasingly becoming a source of award-winning grapes...
Wine & Vines counted wineries recently and the Midwest has four of the top 15 states and provinces in terms of the number of wineries. According to count Midwest Wine Press conducted this spring,...
The 2015 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition included many Midwestern wineries at the top of the heap of 4,900 bottles of wine. (SFC is the biggest wine competition in the U.S.) Scanning the list...
Ed and Sharon Rink of Quinney Estate Winery won a silver medal ( 89 points ) at the 2015 San Diego International Wine Competition for their 2012 Winery Marquette Reserve. Aged in Wisconsin oak barrels,...
According to dbusiness (Detroit’s Premier Business Journal) Michigan’s Chateau Grand Traverse Winery has found a growing export market for their Cherry wine in China. The winery believes Chinese sales of 10,000 cases per year...
I was invited to a wedding some years ago now, outside Phoenix, Arizona. Since I arrived in Arizona a day early, I was interested to see what the famous varieties of Europe might do...
Great article from the UK Telegraph about restoring grape diversity. To wit, the Telegraph reports that 93% of France is now planted with just 20 varieties. In contrast, Wikipedia has 34 separate pages under...
Doug Frost is one of only three people in the world to hold both Master Sommelier and Master of Wine titles. He lives in Kansas City and knows as much about his region’s wine...