Miletta Vista Winery Rises From the Ashes
The Miletta Vista tasting room was packed the night of Friday, June 22, 2012. As the winery staff prepared dinner, winery owner Mick McDowell led a group tour of the winery. Meanwhile, customers lined...
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Indiana’s Huber Winery Harvesting More Vinifera
This is the second in a two-part profile of Huber’s Orchard, Winery and Vineyards in Southern Indiana. The first segment- Indiana’s Huber Winery: Seven Generations and 600 Acres- explained the history of the winery and how...
Indiana’s Huber Winery: Seven Generations and 600 Acres
Publisher’s note: This is the first of a two-part series on Huber Orchard and Winery, a sixth generation, family owned winery in Southern Indiana. Part one focuses on the wineries diversified business model. The...
Champaign Illinois Takes On Champagne France
The German poet, Goethe said, ‘Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” The quote has been prophetic for Illinois Sparkling Company. Illinois Sparkling has embarked on a bold move to create methode champenoise sparkling...
Fisher King Creates a Legend in Wisconsin
Alwyn Fitzgerald named his winery Fisher King after the ancient legend of birth and rebirth. And September 2011 was the birth of something big for Alwyn ‘Fitz” Fitzgerald. That’s when he opened a converted...
Cab Sauv Ice Wine No Sweat for Lemon Creek Winery
Michigan is the largest Midwestern wine producer with a climate that produces temperatures predictably below freezing. So one would think that Michigan is in a position to be a leading ice wine producer....
Two Lads’ Cornel Olivier’s Journey From Africa to Michigan
‘Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Like an old grapevine, the paths we follow in life are full...
Cannon River Shoots for the Stars in Minnesota
Walking into Vincent Negret’s back office at Cannon River Winery in Minnesota is like entering the laboratory of a mad scientist. Sticky notes and articles cover the walls – “I’m visual,” he says –...
The Blended Paths of Chateau Thomas Winery
‘Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Like an old grapevine, the paths we follow in life are full...
Sainte Genevieve Winery Authentic For 30 Years
On Interstate 55 heading south from St. Louis into Missouri wine country, there’s a clever billboard from the Missouri Wine & Grape Board imploring drivers to “Shop Local, Sip Local.” But before there were “local” movements...