[NAFEX] Winemaking in Iowa?

loneroc loneroc at mwt.net
Wed Mar 3 07:55:21 EST 2004


Re: [NAFEX] Winemaking in Iowa?Lon,

Oorah!  If it's as good as your last it should be phenomenal.

Steve Herje, Lone Rock, WI  Zone 3

PS:  If you can't toot your horn here, where can you do it?  OK, you can toot it everywhere else, too;-)
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lon J. Rombough 
  To: North American Fruit Explorers 
  Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 7:51 PM
  Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Winemaking in Iowa?


  I hope the list will forgive me if this sounds commercial, but I just sent the manuscript for a book on using grapes off to my publisher.  The book contains an extensive chapter on grape juice including evaluations of many different varieties of grapes for their juice qualities and flavors.  How soon will it be out?  I really don't know, but even if all goes smoothly, I wouldn't expect it much before the end of the year.

    -Lon Rombough

  Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at http://www.bunchgrapes.com
  Winner of the Garden Writers Association "Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003 




    I received an E-mail from Great River Vineyard (a Minnesota seller of
    hardy grapes) They gave me the URL for a course in Winemaking that
    will occur in about the middle of Iowa. I am posting it because I
    believe that within 30 years every State in the lower 48 will be
    making wine from locally grown grapes rather than imported grapes and
    they will all be fine wines..

    http://www.ryersonwinery.com/shortcourse.html

    Personally I'd rather see more grape juice made from wine varieties as
    occured one year when grape juice production exceeded wine making
    capacity. I've forgotten the variety I was priviledged to taste but it
    was so different from Concord that it was an exciting change for me. I
    you live in Iowa and you want to be a wine maker, check it out. If
    anyone has been making great grape juice from varieties other than
    Concord I  would like to hear about it as unfermented grape juice
    never gives me a headache.



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