Drinking Midwest Wine is Good For You
One objection to buying regional wine is that regional wine costs more. One would think that a local wine producer has a built in cost advantage in the form of lower shipping costs. But in...
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Michigan AVA’s Create Their Own Character
Michigan currently has four AVAs. AVA is an acronym for American Viticultural Area, a term used to define a particular grape growing region. It’s similar to the term ‘appellation,” which is used in France...
Used Wine Barrel Business Booming in Milwaukee
I recently met and spent time talking to a new business owner in the Milwaukee area, John Gill, who sells a product that many winemakers will undoubtedly find interesting: used oak wine barrels. As...
Danenberger Family Vineyards Opens in New Berlin
The State Journal Register reports that a new winery opened on September 8th in New Berlin, Illinois which is just off I72 between Springfield and Jacksonville. Danenberger Family Winery Owners Doug and Susan Danenberger...
Owen Valley: Indiana’s First Solar Powered Winery
From the Indiana Wine Grape Council comes news that Owen Valley Winery in Spencer, Indiana will be Indiana’s first winery to run primarily on solar power. Owen Valley’s Solar system will generate about 12,000...
Northern Finland Produces First Wine Grapes
A Norwegian news report today announced the first wine grapes have ripened and were harvested at a research facility in Pasvik in Finnmark, Norway, which is approximately 70 degrees north latitude. To give you...
What Fed Shutdown Means to Wineries and TTB
Wine Compliance Alliance has produced a timely overview of what the TTB shut down means and how it effects wineries: See: What Can and Can’t Be Down While the TTB is Shutdown
The Physics of Frost
Growers know what frost is, but few may understand the physics behind how it develops. Such an understanding is useful when figuring out how to protect your vines from frost damage. At Shur Farms,...
Water Supplies Dampen California Wine Production
Blake Gray writes in wine.searcher.com that lenders in California are scrutinizing water rights before granting loans for new vineyard plantings. Furthermore, Paso Robles wells are running dry as the water level has dropped 70...
Glass Wine Bottles Still Favored by Consumers
New wine packaging methods have become more common in the past several years, but the fact remains that most wine is sold in standard 750 ml bottles. How many bottles of wine are sold...