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The Norton grape has been the backbone of the Missouri wine industry through the industry's rise in the second half of the 19th century...

Albania, America, Brilliant, Carman, Cloeta, Delicatessen, Favorite, Lenoir, Lomanto, Marguerite, Muench, Wetumka These are winegrapes t...

To celebrate this year's DrinkLocalWine.com conference - scheduled for St. Louis, Missouri April 2nd-3rd - ourselves, Virginia Wi...

With the assistance of Dezel from My Vine Spot and Jenny McCloud, proprietor of Chrysalis Vineyards , we will be hosting a virtual tasting ...

" We don't need no stinkin' vinifera: The grapes of Missouri" - now that's a seminar I'd like to witness. And yo...

Guest post by The Norton Wine Travelers: A couple of years ago we had the opportunity to visit eight Virginia Norton vineyards. It was time...

This week we opened a real surprise in our Norton series, the 2004 Dry Cynthiana from Kugler's Vineyard . Tony and Kay Kugler own and op...

Think back on items that you had to develop a taste for in the past. Coffee, hopefully unsuccessfully tobacco products, or maybe single mal...

For our semi-weekly Norton tasting we opened a bottle of 2001 Norton from Augusta Winery . The winery was established twenty years ago by T...

This week we stayed in the Midwest and opened a bottle of Cynthiana from Holy-Field Vineyard & Winery . Located in eastern Kansas - not ...

While traveling through Tennessee on I-81, we saw signs and then the chateau for Corey Ippolito Winery and quickly exited. We learned that ...

On Saturday September, we were fortunate to attend the First Annual National Norton Festival in St. Louis Missouri. Organized by the Missour...

Today, the winners of the 2007 First Annual Norton Competition were announced with Missouri's Sugar Creek Winery & Vineyards winni...

In September, MissourWineCountry.com is hosting the first National Norton Wine Festival in St. Louis Missouri. The festival consists of a...