A 5 Minute Lesson in Hybrid Wine Grapes
There’s an excellent new video from Cornell University on how hybrid wine grapes are developed. Most of the breeding is done using a process that’s been around since at least the 19th century (no...
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Iowa Wine Industry Just Beginning to Blossom
KCRG-TV ran a nice story about how the leveling off in the number of Iowa wineries might be helping the industry. An interesting factoid from the article is that wineries are now on the...
Northern Illinois Retailers and Restaurants Carrying Illinois Wine
This story and the list of Restaurants and Retailers offering Illinois wine was updated during May of 2014. Illinois wine is being sold at over 40 restaurants and 177 retailers in Northern Illinois, according to a recent...
A Beer A Day Keeps Cellar Palate Away
A sign at a recent wine conference read: ‘It takes a lot of beer to make good wine.” These words resonated with my wife Suz and I as we recalled ending many hot days...
Ideas For Bringing Midwest Wine Together
I have now visited over 100 wineries throughout the Midwest. All our Midwest wineries have their own special qualities and I can honestly say that each visit was memorable in its own way. Looking...
Dow, Monsanto Respond to Herbicide Drift Damage
Midwest Wine Press has written and reprinted a number of herbicide drift damage stories. Herbicides that travel from corn and soybean fields into vineyards are a significant problem for Midwestern grape growers. In addition...
References: Effects of Cold Soak and Phenolic Extraction
Busse-Valverde, N., Gomez-Plaza, E., Lopez-Roca, J., Gil-Munoz, R., Fernandez- Fernandez, J., Bautista-Ortin, A. 2010. Effect of Different Enological Practices of Skins and Proanthocyanidins in Three Varietal Wines. J. Agr Food Chem. 58:11333- 11339. Gao,...
The Effects of Cold Soak on Phenolic Extraction
Cold soak aims to enhance wine colour after extraction of anthocyanins — by leaving the juice soaking on skins for several days, the colour should become darker due to an increase in optical density. To...
Two EE’s Wins at Int’l Wine Channel TV Awards
Two EE’s Winery in Huntington, Indiana won two Best of Class Awards at the recent 2013 International Wine Channel TV Awards. The winners were both 2011 vintages; a Tannat for $24 a bottle and...
Fresh Coast Makes Michigan Wine Happen in Chicago
During 2009, in the midst of the Great Recession, Kelly Kniewel was laid off from her data base marketing job. At a wine tasting soon after, a friend commented about the difficulty of finding...