I80 Wine Tour Through Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska
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...
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Midwest Winery Rankings for 2013
According to the TTB (Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau) the number of federal winery licenses in the 11 state Midwest Wine Press market area grew to 1,243 in 2013. This is a...
Brianna Grape is Midwest’s New Tropical Fruit
When Acquaviva Winery in Maple Park, Illinois petitioned the Tax and Trade Bureau during 2007 to use the name Brianna for their wine labels, they found that only one other winery had petitioned for...
Midwest Winery Rankings by State
Midwest Wine Press recently compiled current TTB data to arrive at the number of wineries in the Midwest. (This tabulation method entails acceptance of the TTB definition of a winery which is subject to debate.)...
Fireside Winery Engages Volunteers
Winery workers are accustomed to customers who say how much they would like to work at a winery. Brad Johnson, external relations manager at Fireside Winery in Marengo, Iowa, is now making his customer’s...
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...