During 1992, a new grape variety was discovered by Peter Hemstad in the vineyard at the University of Minnesota’s Horticulture Research Center. According to Katie Cook, enology project leader at the University of Minnesota,...
Brettanomyces yeast makes for stinky wines but good beer according to the Chicago Foodies website: “Kansas City’s Boulevard Brewing’s Saison-Brett, their saison farmhouse ale brewed with that dangerous wild yeast…it’s truly a remarkable beer.” More...
St. Julian Winery in Paw Paw Michigan is the first winery in the Midwest to be featured on Winestyr.com. Winestyr is a Chicago based internet platform that partners with smaller wineries across the...
The Iowa Tourism Office is running ads featuring Iowa wine in Chicago, Kansas City and Minneapolis, according to Coleen Murphy, Partnerships Manager at the Iowa Tourism Office. The ads are appearing in national...
On Interstate 55 heading south from St. Louis into Missouri wine country, there’s a clever billboard from the Missouri Wine & Grape Board imploring drivers to “Shop Local, Sip Local.” But before there were “local” movements...
Glance at the cars parked at wineries like Chateau Chantal on Michigan’s Old Mission Peninsula this summer, and you’ll increasingly find plates from Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, and New York. Marketing director Marie Chantal-Dalese thinks...
I am on a mission to encourage wineries to focus on their websites. Having a mobile friendly website can have a huge impact on the number of visits to your business. A simple...
Publisher’s note: This article is the fourth installment in a four-part series for winemakers by Nick Smith with the Enology Laboratory at the University of Minnesota. In this article on heat stability, the basic...
This is the first column from Midwest Wine Press publisher Mark Ganchiff. Ganchiff started Midwest Wine Press in September 2011. He has traveled all over the Midwest during the past eight years visiting hundreds of...
Chicagoan Bill St. John is a great wine writer but he apparently does not drink Midwest regional wine. (If he does, he certainly does not write about Midwest wine often, if ever.) In today’s...