New Kansas Winery Trail Website
The Kansas Grape Growers and Winemakers Association has rolled out a new website for consumers called Kansas Wineries. The website has a state map with 26 wineries and links and addresses for all...
Midwest Wine Press Blog
Winter’s Effect on American and Midwest Vines
The Washington Post ran a story yesterday about the damage cold weather has done to Eastern vineyards, particularly in New York and Pennsylvania. (Cornell University is reporting damage to Riesling and Merlot on Seneca Lake.) ...
Review: Midwest Wine & Beer Conference
Despite the difficult weather, hundreds of winemakers, craft brewers and vendors turned out for the Midwest Grape & Wine + Craft Brew Conference in St. Charles, Missouri, February 4-7. The event was the first...
Photos: 2014 Midwest Grape & Wine + Craft Brew Conference
An expanded Midwest Grape and Wine Conference was held from February 4th through 7th at the St. Charles Convention Center near St. Louis. According to Robert Merletti, the publisher of Vineyard and Winery Management,...
Preventing Oxidation in Finished Wine
Equipped with a microphone and the sartorial elegance of his Hawaiian style shirt, Michael Jones opened this talk confessing he wouldn’t be using a Powerpoint presentation. The veteran winemaker and fermentation specialist with California based...
Wine Industry Updates From MO, OH, IN and NE
Leaders of the Missouri, Ohio, Indiana and Nebraska provided current overviews of their state’s wine industries on Thursday, February 6th at the 2014 Midwest Grape and Wine Conference in St. Charles, Missouri. Here’s what...
Cider Summit Chicago Photos
A greatly expanded Cider Summit Chicago took over the far end of Navy Pier in Chicago on February 8th. Thirty six cider producers from all over the world, including 14 from the Midwest, poured...
B2B: Genuinely Local Wineries Deserve More Promotion
I had a dream. The year was 1965 in California. I was observing wine pioneer Robert Mondavi who had just been fired by his family’s winery (something that happened in our real world too)....
Probing the “Whole Foods Gap”
If you’ve been at Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods or any of the new upscale grocers recently, you’ve probably noticed that the food is expensive, but the wine is often cheap. In a recent article...
2014 Illinois Winter Wine Festival and Annual Conference Review
For wine lovers, The Illinois Winter Wine Festival and Annual Conference in Springfield, Illinois was the wine conference to attend. Wine was in abundance not only during the three days of educational sessions but...