Tag: Concord

• More wine, less whine.

  Illinois was the fourth largest producer of wine grapes in the US up until Prohibition in 1919.  Johns Great-grandmother being one of those paid up card carrying tough old prohibition women. I even have her prohibition prayer cards to prove it somewhere around here. During this period many vineyards were ripped out and put into…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 30, 2011

  Vines and Wine

  Concord, grapes, hawkes bay, horses, new zealand, summer, Vidal Blanc, wine, winemaking