Missouri State wines won several awards in competitions this year. Maroon Blend received a Gold Sweepstakes at 2013 Mid-American Wine Competition and at the a Silver and 2013 Best Of Class at the Indy International Wine Competition. Other medals include: Gold for Chambourcin Dessert Wine, Gold for 2012 Pink Catawba and Silver for Cynthiana at the 2013 Mid-American wine … [Read more...] about Wine competition awards
Karl, C. J. and Josh are bottling Cynthiana wine today. Chin-Feng stopped by for a sample. … [Read more...] about Bottling Cynthiana wine
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 their tour guide for the campus and C. J. Odneal took them on a tour of the Mountain Grove Cellars. … [Read more...] about Distance learning staff tour Mountain Grove
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. … [Read more...] about Bottling the 2012 MSU Maroon Blend
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 group participated in a distillation and also tasted some of our … [Read more...] about Second distillation workshop