Making Marquette: In the Vineyard
A decade after Marquette’s release by the University of Minnesota, Midwest Wine Press is checking in on its progress with help from Calico Skies winemaker, Will Kimberley. Marquette is one of the only grape...
Category: Varietal
B2B: Stone Hill Triumphs at Norton Blind Tasting
For nearly three years, a small collection of Norton wines has been aging in the basement downstairs. The diminutive gathering of five bottles, all from Missouri wineries and most from the 2009 vintage, is the...
Frontenac Blanc’s Promising Future
Frontenac blanc, a mutation of Frontenac gris, is the latest member of the Frontenac grape family. Viticulture experts say the variety was first observed in Quebec during 2005 and that the mutation was probably...
Game Changer Grape is a Little Pearl
The 2014 Wisconsin Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Conference led to the typical dissemination and confluence -or occasional clash- of ideas that makes a conference of this nature so infectious. Although, it has been argued...
Labrusca Wines Deserve More Respect
When discussing wine, it is close to fatal to suggest a wine is a Labrusca or even has some Labrusca characteristics. Winemakers, enthusiasts and sommeliers will drop the discussion like it was a cold that is...
St. Vincent: Missouri’s Mystery Grape
The French-American hybrid grape St. Vincent is an orphan. Or at least, that is how it is perceived to be. Unlike most other hybrid grape varietals found in Missouri, St. Vincent’s parentage is largely...
Frontenac Outgrows Wild Youth
The Frontenac wine grape started with a graduate student on a canoe trip. While paddling through the suburbs of Minneapolis during 1976, a University of Minnesota graduate student named Patrick Pierquet found the wild...
Riedel to Create First Ever Vignoles Glass
On December 6th, Riedel, the world’s leading wine glass company, will host a meeting at Mount Pleasant Winery in Augusta to help design the world’s first glass for Vignoles. Flying in from Austria for...
Foch Maintains a Midwest Following
When the Marechal Foch wine grape was introduced in 1920, the name “Foch” probably seemed like a winner. At the time, WW I French General Ferdinand Foch was a well know public figure...
Northern Minnesota Vineyard Trial Results
Data from the first phase of a major Minnesota vineyard trial has been tabulated, according to Dennis Emslie Drummond, VESTA Coordinator at Central Lakes College in Staples, Minnesota, about 130 miles northeast of the...