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February 8th

GMN — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:01:03 +0000

Map of Beaujolais wine subregions by Cyril5555 under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 unported license

February 7th

GMN — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:01:21 +0000

February 5th

GMN — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:16:59 +0000

King John and Hunting Dogs by unknown author and is in the public domain due to its age

December 30th

GMN — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:03:05 +0000

Topographic view of the countryside around the Plain of Arezzo and the Val di Chiana by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Owned by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Royal Library, Windsor. And is in the public domain due to its age.

December 29th

GMN — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:29:27 +0000

Nantes vineyards "Coteaux d'Herbauges" Pont-Saint-Martin, France by Cyril5555 under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 unported license

December 27th

GMN — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 07:27:49 +0000

Map of Australian wine regions by Froggydarb under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license

December 26th

GMN — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 07:14:01 +0000

Front Page of the first issue of the Wall Street Journal, July 8, 1889 and is in the public domain due to its age

December 21st

GMN — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:01:52 +0000

Photo of Gulf of Saint Euphemia in Calabria by M.belsito under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 unported license

Wine From the Ledge

GMN — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:22:58 +0000

There is more to my neighbor to the north besides cheese and the Green Bay Packers. I have had several nice experiences in the Dairy State and am pleased to learn that an application has been filed for a new appellation.

By CJ Moss via Wikipedia under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.

Called Wisconsin Ledge, this potential AVA consists of the western most part of the Niagara Escarpment as it reappears out of Lake Michigan. The application points out the regions underlying rocks of dolomite (Lockport Dolomite) which provide minerals as well as drainage to the areas soils and are overlain with sand, loam and glacial moraines. If this sounds vaguely familiar, it is because it exceptionally close to the geography of the Niagara Escarpment AVA in western New York State. In the case of the New York appellation, the climate is moderated by two Great Lakes (Erie and Ontario) and the prevailing west wind that would blow across them. The Wisconsin Ledge has a more moderate temperature due to its proximity to Lake Michigan but the west winds would be more continental.

The new potential AVA is located in the Door Peninsula, south of the Fox River, east of Lake Winnebago and north of County Highway T (North of Milwaukee). This area is already home to at least twelve wineries including the Cedar Creek Winery in Cedarburg, Wisconsin.

Map by Gretchen Neuman for VinoVerve.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 unported license.

So three cheers to Wisconsin Ledge! It is about time that they got some wine with that cheese!

Gretchen Neuman
VinoVerve Editor,
October 25, 2011

New Additions at VinoVerve

GMN — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 07:27:13 +0000

Once I am on a mapping roll, I sometimes can’t stop. Here is the McMinnville AVA from Oregon and the Arroyo Grande Valley AVA from California. You might be wondering why I working on west coast appellations, but all will be revealed soon enough.

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Gretchen Neuman
VinoVerve Editor
September 29, 2011