Vintage Illinois drew over 8,000 visitors on Saturday, September 17th according to Jill Joyce, Vintage Illinois Planning Committee member. Vintage Illinois is in its 8th year and is held annually Mattheissen State Park near...
Champagne is wine’s outgoing cousin — sparkling, fun, the life of the party — which may be why a number of Midwest wine makers are adding champagnes and sparkling wines to their product lineup....
Since 1989, Larry Elsner has enjoyed success as a professional carpenter, home builder and remodeler. In January 2010, Larry took his business ambitions in a completely different direction when he formed Cedar Creek Winery....
‘We tasted a lot of wines and I wanted [to grow] something I could drink with my dinner,” Arnie Esterer, owner of Markko Vineyard in Conneaut, Ohio replied when asked why he started Markko...
Joseph Robert Mills, poet, essayist, dramatist, critic, has the credentials of a professor whom you might expect to find nibbling at cheeses and sniffing wine at the faculty club. Growing up in Indiana, he...
For the last 10 years, southern Ohio has been carefully rebuilding its reputation as a premiere wine-growing area — a title it once held more than one hundred years ago when the Ohio River...
By, Steve Jordan UW-Madison Department of Plant Pathology When it comes to growing grapes in Wisconsin, there are a number of diseases that can jeopardize a successful harvest. One of the diseases that we...
QR codes (Quick Response Codes), like their older cousin the bar code, are becoming an increasingly common part of modern life. One creative use of the ubiquitous boxes full or squiggly lines is...
Yes, I am guilty of it, as are many Minnesotans. Spring in this state is elusive, not guaranteed. As I drive during May 2011 from Minneapolis into the St. Croix River Valley, which forms...
Oliver Kielwasser isn’t just in charge of wine for Pittsburg based Giant Eagle, an $8.6 billion annual sales grocery store with more than 125 locations in Pennsylvania and Ohio. It’s a long-time passion and...