Food Pairing With Frontenac
This series of cold climate wine and food pairing articles started with a couple ideas for LaCrescent in a story titled La Crescent Food Pairing Ideas. This time we will consider Frontenac wines and...
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Using Enological Tannin Additions to Enhance Red Wine Structure and Mouthfeel
By Stephanie Groves, Midwest Grape and Wine Industry Institute, Iowa State University This article originally appeared in the February 2014 issue of Northern Grapes News, a publication of the Northern Grapes Project. Tannins are important...
Frontenac Outgrows Wild Youth
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...
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...
Wisconsin Expert Addresses State of the Grapes
As a result of the number of wineries in Wisconsin almost doubling in just the past several years, there has been an increased demand for wine grapes. Currently, all of the approximately 1,000 acres...
Parallel 44 Winery Masters the Frozen Tundra
February in northeast Wisconsin is bone-chilling cold, but that doesn’t stop Steve Johnson and Maria Milano, owners of Parallel 44 Winery and Vineyard near Kewaunee, Wis., from throwing an outdoor winter wine festival. Last...
Minnesota Winemakers Mastering Ice Wines
The warmest parts of Minnesota are in USDA climate zone 4b so wine grapes there have to withstand -25F from time to time. Rising to meet the challenge, The University of Minnesota has...
Nan Bailly Guides Alexis Bailly Vineyard
It’s possible that winemaker Nan Bailly’s kin enjoyed native Minnesota wine during canoe trips through the state in the 1820’s when it was still wilderness. Bailly, owner, winegrower and winemaker at Alexis Bailly Vineyard, has...
Four Daughters Winery Opens in Minnesota as Familial Affair
The trend of Midwestern farmers diversifying from row crops to grapes is growing. For the Vogt family in Southern Minnesota, the motivation for starting the Four Daughters Winery, which opened December 15th, has much...