Arnie Esterer: Father of Ohio’s Vinifera Adventure
‘We tasted a lot of wines and I wanted [to grow] something I could drink with my dinner,” Arnie Esterer, owner of Markko Vineyard in Conneaut, Ohio replied when asked why he started Markko...
Category: Ohio
Southern Ohio Wine Renaissance
For the last 10 years, southern Ohio has been carefully rebuilding its reputation as a premiere wine-growing area — a title it once held more than one hundred years ago when the Ohio River...
Q&A with Wine Expert at Giant Eagle
Oliver Kielwasser isn’t just in charge of wine for Pittsburg based Giant Eagle, an $8.6 billion annual sales grocery store with more than 125 locations in Pennsylvania and Ohio. It’s a long-time passion and...