Wine Diamonds: On the Road at Barrel Head
Wine Diamonds: Uncorking America's Heartland visited Barrel Head Winery (Dubuque, IA) to interview owner and winemaker John Burns. John makes some of the very best traditional method sparkling wine... period! For this On the Road segment we chat with John, taste his freshly bottled bubbly wine, and talk about how he makes sparkling wine in Iowa.
Popping Bottles To Promote IA Wine
CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (CBS 2/FOX 28)--A cold night sounds like a perfect night for some wine.
Believe it or not, some Corridor winemakers say the colder temperatures are helping our wine this year.
Iowa's sparkling wine is typically drier, although there still are some sweeter sparkling wines out there.
Four wineries got together for the first-ever Flight of the Corks, where winemakers got to see how far the cork flew in the air from some of their finest bubbly.
Iowa is a very, very competitive state, John Burns said, with Barrel Head Winery in Dubuque. It's about promoting more champagne in Iowa.
For John Burns, it's not just about his bubbly, but also making his wine popular around the world.
We have the conditions to make the right top quality bubbles, he said. That's what exactly what we want to do get us on the map.
Burns said to make Iowa wine, you need rich soil and lots of moisture, plus plenty of sunshine. It's a shorter growing season but it makes high acidity grapes.
We have really good conditions in Iowa to make really good champagne, he said.
Winemakers do have to be mindful that if you get really cold temps, like the ones we've been seeing, they can either help or harm the crop. It all depends on which kind of grape. For example, Burns lost about 50 percent of one of their champagne grapes last year. But, some winemakers say, this cold snap, this early, can make the grapes sweeter, once they're harvested.
Grapes like dry feet so you need the drainage but like any other plant they enjoy our good soils and if we have a good combination of sunlight and enough water we're gonna have a good crop, Steve Larson said. Larson is a member if the Iowa Wine Growers Association and winemaker at Train Wreck Winery in Algona.
Here in Iowa, there are more than 80 wineries or vineyards in our 99 counties.
Out of those 12-hundred and 50 acres, the state brings in about 420 million dollars from wine.
It's an industry that stretches from the Minnesota border to Missouri from the Mississippi to the Missouri River, Larson said. It's an industry that's really exploded.
And an industry that they hope will continue to grow.
There is no record but there will be tonight, Burns said.
Well, Friday night was all about bragging rights but Andrew Morse with Barrel Head Winery set a Guinness World Record at 49 feet and 11 inches. So that means his bubbly had more pressure inside to fly the cork further in the air.
Winemakers hope to make The Flight for the Corks an annual event.
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Our own Brigitte Purdy sits down with International radio personality Cleve Baker of Confessing the Blues at the Big Blues Bender in Las Vegas. There was nowhere better to be than the Bender ..make reservations for next year NOW!
Confessing the Blues is heard on fine radio stations around the world. Each week, Cleve Baker serves as your host for this three hour Roadhouse party featuring your favorite blues tunes, past and present. We thank you for checking out our brand new website. If you are looking to grow your business, record sales or draw more numbers to your festival gate; we offer a unique and precise opportunity to market your business. For marketing opportunities, please contact us for a free consultation on how “Confessing the Blues” can help your business grow.
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Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in communities of primarily the Deep South of the United States at the end of the 1800’s from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and narrative ballads. Blues Music is responsible for and ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll. Blues Music is truly the Backbone of American Music.
My introduction to the Blues came at an early age in my Grandfather’s tobacco fields. Granddad’s help would sing work songs and field hollers as they primed tobacco walking bent over in the long, long rows of those tobacco fields. That’s where my fascination and my appreciation of Blues music began. Come Saturday night, the farm workers would meet with their guitars, harps, dobros and drum sticks at D.E. Baker’s Country Store. They’d buy some wine and gather round back to sit, drink and play the blues. Those drum sticks bouncing on a steel barrel and wooden Pepsi crate set the back beat to my introduction to renditions of my first Muddy Waters, Lightening Hopkins, Willie Dixon, Sonny Boy Williams andHowlin’ Wolf among others. I just couldn’t wait for Saturday night’s at Granddaddy’s store. I ease out the back door of the store with wine and an occasional jar of Granddad’s Moonshine so those men would continue to play. Those days and that music has never left me.
Sleepy Wilkins and Memphis Red Hicks, hard working men and great blues artist, told me tall tales about their travels on the Blues Highway out back of that country store. Tales of their migration from Mississippi up north to Chicago in their younger years just added to the lore of the music. The Blues Highway, Highway 61 that starts in New Orleans and parallels the Mississippi River north. Highway 61, the route that crosses Highway 49 in Clarksdale, MS where legend has it Blues Great Robert Johnson sold his soul to the Devil. The Great River Road, Hwy 61, that was the conduit for spreading the Blues from down south to Baton Rouge, LA, West Memphis, AK, Memphis, TN, St. Louis, MO, to Dubuque, Iowa on to St. Paul, MN. Sleepy and Memphis Red spun tales of good times, rolling turmoil, and great blues music that was spawned in Juke Joints, Barrel Houses and Road Houses dotting the roadside along the way.
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