Missouri’s 2017 Show Me Grape and Wine Conference
The Show Me State has a Show Me wine conference for the second year in a row. The University of Missouri’s Grape and Wine Institute (GWI) is staging its Show Me Grape and Wine...
Category: Viticulture
Installing a Vineyard: Line Post Decisions
Today we started putting in a trellis for our new vineyard at Belvoir Winery in Liberty, Missouri. There was something very satisfying about punching in those T-Posts, seeing that they didn’t fall over and...
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...
Winegrowing in Kansas: Vineyard Help Needed!
This is the first blog from our new columnist Cindy Reynolds. With husband Dennis, Cindy is co-owner of Somerset Ridge Vineyard & Winery in Kansas. The view of our 20 acres of wine grapes...
MO Grape Conference: The Dangers of Brix Fixation
I’m just back from attending half a day of the Missouri University Grape and Wine Institute’s (GWU) 2016 Show Me Grape and Wine Conference and Symposium in Columbia. This three-day event is the first...
Soil Health in the Vineyard
Quality and yield start below the surface The groundhog predicted an early spring. Then came this year’s winter vortex. Regardless of what happens next, the waning days of winter are a time of excitement...
Tom Plocher’s New Grapes Are Spreading
University grape breeding programs – like Cornell and Minnesota- grab a lot of attention. But private grape breeders continue to develop many of the grapes that are used to make cold hardy wines. One...
New Grapes Revolutionize Midwest Wine
‘Why didn’t someone take the Cabernet Sauvignon grape and cross it with Norton to create a grapevine that could withstand Midwestern winters yet make a world class wine?” That was the question that puzzled...
San Francisco Chronicle Rips Hybrid Wine Grapes
A story today in the San Francisco Chronicle has created a controversy for two words (or maybe it’s just one word?) that has been since removed from the article: Frankengrapes. As the story details,...
Lemberger- A Cold Hardy Vinifera
Hidden among the twenty one varieties and forty acres of vines at Domaine Berrien Cellars and Winery in southwest Michigan is a two acre patch of hardy Austrian grapes known as Lemberger. Owner and...