Minnesota Bill Proposes Wine Council
Wineries and vineyards in Minnesota, the state at winegrowing’s cold climate frontier and a leader in cold hardy grape breeding, could be on the way to having a state funded wine and grape council. ...
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INDY 2017 Wine Competition As It Happened
Judgement Day had arrived. On 24th May, with fifty wine judges in white lab coats poised to start blind tasting almost 2,000 wines, the 26th annual INDY International Wine Competition opened with remarks from...
How Copper Fooled Us All
Piero is a Midwest vineyard and winery consultant specializing in cool-climate and cold-climate grape & wine production. He can be reached via email at pierospada.com Intro — Part i Got a hint of burnt rubber smell in...
Missouri’s 2017 Show Me Grape and Wine Conference
The Show Me State has a Show Me wine conference for the second year in a row. The University of Missouri’s Grape and Wine Institute (GWI) is staging its Show Me Grape and Wine...
Installing a Vineyard: Line Post Decisions
Today we started putting in a trellis for our new vineyard at Belvoir Winery in Liberty, Missouri. There was something very satisfying about punching in those T-Posts, seeing that they didn’t fall over and...
Where’s the Local on the Wine List?
The local food movement has pushed farm fresh produce to the menus of top restaurants around the country, yet the movement stops short when it comes to local wines. Even restaurants hailed as leaders...
Making Marquette: In the Vineyard
A decade after Marquette’s release by the University of Minnesota, Midwest Wine Press is checking in on its progress with help from Calico Skies winemaker, Will Kimberley. Marquette is one of the only grape...
Indy International Wine Comp Spectacular
‘I declare the 25th Olympiad of wine open!” announced Christian Butzke, Purdue University’s professor of enology. It was a timely witticism with the Olympics in Rio getting underway at the same time as the...
Winegrowing in Kansas: Vineyard Help Needed!
This is the first blog from our new columnist Cindy Reynolds. With husband Dennis, Cindy is co-owner of Somerset Ridge Vineyard & Winery in Kansas. The view of our 20 acres of wine grapes...
Hinterland: A Great Winery Worth the Extra Mile
One of the best Midwest wine experiences is finding a gem of a winery in a rural area. And being a diamond in the boonies the business model for Hinterland Vineyards and Winery in...
New York Times Recognizes Marquette Wine
We started writing about Marquette wine during 2011, but news of this Minnesota borne grape has just now penetrated fortress Manhattan. Today, in a bit of a coup for the cold hardy wine industry,...