Frost Damage Reported in Northeast Ohio
In this morning’s Ashtabula Star Beacon, writer Carl E. Feather reports some damage to the Lake Erie grape crop Monday night. Feather said apples and peaches in some area orchards were virtually wiped out...
Category: Ohio
Great Lakes Grape Growers Grapple with Freezing Nights
Editors note: This story was updated Wednesday morning and was originally posted Tuesday morning, March 27th 2012 Arnie Esterer of Markko Vineyard in Conneaut, Ohio, near Lake Erie, reported temperatures of 23 degrees in...
South River Vineyard: It’s About the Hunch
For Northeast Ohio vineyard owner Gene Sigel, it’s premonition over planning. Despite being just a few credit hours short of holding a doctorate in economics, Sigel never bothered writing a business plan for his...
Imed Dami’s Ohio Winegrape Trials Update
On February 21st, Dr. Imed Dami, Associate Professor of Horticulture and Crop Science at OSU, updated participants of the Ohio Wine and Grape Conference on research findings of OSU’s “Winegrape Variety Evaluation Trials.” Dami...
Ohio Grape and Wine Conference: Making Good Wine from a Difficult Harvest
Ohio’s 2011 growing season and harvest was one of the wettest on record. ‘It was the worst harvest I’ve seen in 30 years. We had 75 inches of rain,” says Nick Ferrante, owner and...
Special Report: Midwest Farmers Markets Wine Regulations
As more people seek their region’s local foods to purchase, more than 1,000 new farmers markets began operating across the country last year. As of mid-2011, 7,175 farmers markets were recorded, reports the U.S....
Brothers Drake and Middle West Spirits Express Ohio Terroir
Sitting side by side in the Weinland Park area of Columbus, Ohio’s trendy Short North, Brothers Drake Meadery and Middle West Spirits share a lot more than location. They share a goal that’s familiar to...
Geneva Ohio Wine and Culinary Center Moving Forward
The recent ‘Dare to Pair: the Chefs’ Challenge” was intended to silence the skeptics of the proposed wine and culinary center to be built on the site of a former schoolhouse in the town of...
John Marshall: Frost Damage Protection for the Small Grower
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...
New Ohio Micro-Distillery Laws Passed
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...