Midwest Wine Trail Rankings for 2014
No wine region in the world has as many wine trails as the Midwestern U.S. A big part of the Midwestern wine experience is visiting a winery to enjoy the terroir and perhaps speak...
Category: Nebraska
Moving Beyond A Tourism Based Wine Industry
Call me a dreamer, but I can envision a day when vineyards stretch out across the Midwest. In this future-land, the grapes from Midwest vineyards will be used to make wines that are sold...
Midwest Winery Rankings 2014
After years of rapid expansion, the growth in the number of Midwest wineries slowed during the past year. Since the second quarter of 2013, the number of Federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade...
Nebraska Winery & Grape Grower Logo Wins Award
The new logo for the Nebraska Winery and Grape Growers Association (NWGGA) recently received a Prism Award from the Lincoln chapter of the American Marketing Association in the category of Corporate Identity-Logo for non-profit...
NGP Analysis: How to Grow the Midwest Wine Industry
Professor Bill Gartner from the University of Minnesota and a team of researchers have surveyed hundreds of wineries in the Midwest and northern USA. The survey is part of an ongoing study by a consortium...
Wine Price: No Impact on Midwest Tasting Room Sales
A team of researchers, led by Professor Bill Gartner from the University of Minnesota, has found that the price of wine in Midwest winery tasting rooms does not impact on sales. The research particularly...
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...
Nebraska Reports Limited Winter Damage
From Nebraska’s VineLines, which is produced by the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, comes a positive report about grape vine freeze damage. The University recently checked buds and canes and found no significant damage....
Midwest Wine Industry Grows 5%
Figures due to be released by Nielsen at the Midwest Grape & Wine Conference will show that the region’s wine industry continues to grow at an overall rate of 5%. Liz Crews, Analytic Lead for...
I80 Wine Tour Through Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska
This article is the second installment of a two-part article about wine tourism along Interstate 80 in the Midwest. In the first article, we visited Ohio and Indiana. Now join us on a winery...