Bottling Cynthiana wine
Karl, C. J. and Josh are bottling Cynthiana wine today. Chin-Feng stopped by for a sample.

Karl, C. J. and Josh are bottling Cynthiana wine today. Chin-Feng stopped by for a sample.
Members of the Missouri State distance learning staff toured the West Plains and the Mountain Grove campuses on Monday. Melissa Warren is the ITV off-campus coordinator and Melissa Tolleson is the administrative assistant at the Meyer Alumni Center. Pam Mayer was …
The winery crew was busy bottling the Missouri State Maroon Blend Vintage 2012. Maroon Blend is a blend of Chambourcin and Norton grape varietal wines.
Our second distillation workshop was held today. Twelve people participated. The day began with presentations/question answer on distillation followed by lunch at the distillery. Dr. Elliott addressed the group at lunch and talked about School of Agriculture programs. Afterwards, the …
The first of two distillation workshops was held today. The morning session was held in Faurot Hall and the afternoon session in the distillery. Eleven people attended the event from Missouri, Oklahoma and Alabama. Dr. Karl Wilker, C. J. Odneal …
Twenty-eight people participated in our home winemaking workshop held today. Dr. Karl Wilker, professor and winemaker at MSU, and Mr. Todd Frye, owner of the Home Brewery in Ozark, presented information on home winemaking. Graduate students Xinyi Zhang and Josh Glasson helped people …
Dr. Wilker is planning to add apple juice to distilled apple spirits to produce a type of apple liqueur this year.
Xinyi Zhang’s research treatments on canopy management plots in the field follow through to the winery as well. Xinyi, with Caleb’s help, is pressing wine fermented on the skins from each treatment plot she managed in the vineyard. She will make Norton wine from …
The sixth annual Mid-American Wine Competition was July 13-15 at the Des Moines Area Community College Ankeny campus. It included wines from 15 Midwestern states. More then 600 wines were entered by more then 100 different wineries.Professional wine judges from …