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Tours, free produce and more planned as people take free, self-guided tours of participating sites

Highland Community College courses help revive the once-thriving Kansas wine industry.

Industry officials have noted these ratings are noteworthy because they place Michigan wines on par with those produced in other acclaimed wine-growing regions, including Washington, Oregon and Spain.

Riley County Fair hosts inaugural Winemaking Workshop This slideshow requires JavaScript. Wine enthusiasts took part in a new event Saturday morning at the Riley County Fair. Officials from Highland Community College in Wamego hosted the inaugural Winemaking Workshop. The college operates the local 456 Wineries. Viticulture and Enology Program Director and 456 Wineries Manager Scott Kohl says he was pleased to talk to a handful of wine enthusiasts.       0725-Kohl 1 Brew Brothers Ho...

April 08, 2021 WHAT: This year, Auction of Washington Wines’ annual Wine & Music event will take place over a full week to celebrate the bounty of Washington wine paired with an online auction, virtual concerts and winemaker dinners. May 18-23, guests are invited to participate from wherever they are, and those ready to venture out can gather at intimate wine-focused dinners in eastern Washington wine country.    The virtual auction will showcase some of Washington’s most coveted ...

Black-Owned Meadery Taps French Caribbean Culture on the Kansas Prairie Black-Owned Meadery Taps French Caribbean Culture on the Kansas Prairie Eric Depradine Breaks Ground in Alcohol Production Share this story Published February 11th, 2021 at 6:00 AM Above image credit: Three bottles of mead produced by Zydeco Meadery in Wamego, Kansas. (Contibuted | Eric Depradine) As a child, it wasn’t Christmas until Eric Depradine’s grandmother u...

Smoke Taints known knowns and unknown unknowns Researchers Discuss Progress During Unified Wine & Grape Symposium   About 100 wildfires burned 10 million acres across the western United States in 2020, resulting in $680 million in crop losses in California and Oregon alone. Long-term impacts to the wine industry have been estimated at $3.7 billion, according to Bruce Pan, who leads the chemistry research group at E. & J. Gallo Winery, citing industry figures. “The long-term impacts fr...