Brick Arch Winery Rises Again in Iowa
When Ilene Lande, owner of Brick Arch Winery, received a call from the mayor of West Branch, Iowa saying, “Get into town, you’ve got a problem,” she suspected that something might have gone wrong...
Category: Wineries
Reds a “Natural” at Indiana’s Oliver Winery
“Reds grow here!” exclaims Bernie Parker, Vineyard Manager at Creekbend Vineyards, the agricultural division of Oliver Winery of Bloomington, Indiana. And that’s not just his opinion; it’s his track record. From the grapes grown at...
Wild Blossom Expands in Chicago’s South Side
While most visitors to Chicago never go farther south than the lakefront museum campus, for those adventurous enough to travel approximately 80 blocks south of the Field Museum, Wild Blossom Meadery & Winery awaits....
Andrea Robinson Speaks at Huber Winery
‘Can Indiana wines come to the world stage? I have to say yes.” For the winemakers of the Indiana Uplands Wine Trail (IUWT), those words are a ringing endorsement from Andrea Robinson–one of the...
Cedar Creek Opens First Winery in Morgan County Indiana
Since 1989, Larry Elsner has enjoyed success as a professional carpenter, home builder and remodeler. In January 2010, Larry took his business ambitions in a completely different direction when he formed Cedar Creek Winery....
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...
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...