Used Wine Barrel Business Booming in Milwaukee
I recently met and spent time talking to a new business owner in the Milwaukee area, John Gill, who sells a product that many winemakers will undoubtedly find interesting: used oak wine barrels. As...
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Elmer Swenson Preservation Project 2.0
The Elmer Swenson Preservation Project set out to protect and establish Elmer’s most promising and little known selections for future testing and evaluation. The pioneers of the original project did an amazing job collecting...
Dow, Monsanto Respond to Herbicide Drift Damage
Midwest Wine Press has written and reprinted a number of herbicide drift damage stories. Herbicides that travel from corn and soybean fields into vineyards are a significant problem for Midwestern grape growers. In addition...
Wisconsin Herbicide Damage Report
WisconsinWatch.org ran an excellent story this week about herbicide drift damage to grape growers in Wisconsin. This is a topic Midwest Wine Press has been following closely. Soon we hope to have a counterpoint...
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...
Updated ’14 Midwest Wine Conference Schedule, Recaps, Photos
See related story: 2015 Midwest Wine Conference Preview With the exception of the first weekend in February, the Midwest wine conference schedule runs continuously from mid-January through early March. (The only open weekend during...
SF Int’l Wine Competition Midwest Winners
Wisconsin’s Wollersheim Winery won a Best in Show for their Dry Riesling at the recent San Francisco International Wine Competition. 1400 wineries entered 4,539 products from 29 states and 30 countries. Other top prizes that...
What Should We Call Wines That Are Not From Warm Places?
Last year, I wrote about David Taub whose main claim to fame was changing the name of an Italian wine from ‘Cantini Viticoltori del Trentino” to ‘Cavit” during the 70’s, thereby creating a market for...
John Marshall: My Favorite Red Wine Grapes
This article is a companion to an earlier piece describing cold hardy white grapes that seem to have found their niche in a crisp, flowery and fruity style. Cold hardy reds, on the other...
First Driftless Experimental Wine Festival Set for Fall
The first Driftless Experimental Wine Festival will be held on October 20, 2013 at Fergedaboutit Vineyard and Winery in Hanover Illinois (near Galena.) The event is the brainchild of Gerald Podraza of Mount Hope Vineyard in...