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...
Midwest Wine Press will be hosting a Midwest Wine Tasting Event on March 8th in Chicago. More than 20 wines from across the Midwest will be featured including award-winning wines made from cold hardy...
Cold-hardy wine grapes developed by the University of Minnesota and private breeders since the late 1990’s have generated a new and vibrant farm winery industry, pumping $401 million and 12,600 jobs into the United...
Ernie Wilmink, owner of AgriOzein, the Nebraska based company that designs and builds ozonators, has come a long way since Midwest Wine Press last spoke with him during early 2013. There’s now growing evidence that...
In spite of the wintry weather, we had 30 attendees at the Northern Illinois Wine Growers (NIWG) meeting on Saturday, January 25, at Famous Fossil Vineyard and Winery in Freeport, Illinois, west of Rockford. In addition...
The Wisconsin Fruit and Vegetable Conference was held this week at the Wilderness Waterpark Resort Resort- the country’s largest waterpark- in subzero temperatures. Despite the arctic weather, the atmosphere was like the Fourth of...
‘What, are you crazy? Grapes won’t grow here!” That’s what people told me during June of 1995, when I planted my first grapes at Trout Springs Winery in Wisconsin. Did I listen?..NO! (Now they...
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...
This article is the second installment of a two-part article about wine tourism along Interstate 80 in the Midwest. In the first article, we visited Ohio and Indiana. Now join us on a winery...
According to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal, Four Daughters Winery in Spring Valley is increasing production to 27,000 per year with the addition of new tank capacity. See: Minnesota Winery Doubles Production Midwest Wine...