Team building activities in Kansas City are experiences ideal for corporate outings and events. Examples include Kansas City Museum tours, TerraVox Winery wine tasting, and Yarn Social classes. The purpose of these ideas is to help team members discover the best ways to connect and boost their morale.
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American wines from outside the expected, eternally lauded places—California, Oregon and Washington, for the most part—are often very tough to find outside of the regions where they’re made. So unless wine lovers actively seek out wines from less commonly considered areas, they are unlikely to encounter them at stores, restaurants or bars. Which, advocates of equal opportunity wine consumption say, is a shame.
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Forget Cabernet and Bordeaux — have you ever tasted a Cloeta, Wetumka or Albanian? The odds are, you haven’t because these wines are made from grapes indigenous to North America rather than the popular European varietals widely known today. Surprisingly, these interesting varietals can be found in Kansas City, Missouri, at TerraVox Winery.
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The morning dew dampens my sneakers as we ascend the green, undulating hill. Jerry Eisterhold, wearing a wide-brimmed hat against the Missouri summer sun, pulls a bunch of grapes of a type known as Delicatessen off the vine. “I got this one from a guy who should have won an amateur wine competition,” he says. “But the flavors were so unusual, the judges didn’t know what to do with it.”
Read MoreWhen I first tasted a wine called Albania months ago, I realized how little I knew about non-traditional wine.
An almost limitless genetic enigma, wine grapes encompass so many pathways that it’s hard to keep track of even basic grapes, let alone the obscure. Esteemed wine author Jancis Robinson has done as much as anyone to delineate some of the vast differences between common grape varieties. But few have ever dared venture into the truly murky.
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(Kansas City, MO)—TerraVox Winery Winemaker Jean Louis Horvilleur and his crew of harvesters are nearly halfway through the 2023 grape harvest and already it appears to Horvilleur that the 2023 vintage will be both higher quality and larger than in 2022…assuming the weather holds. The winery located just outside Kansas City is currently 40% finished harvesting its 14 acres of native North American grapes that will be used to produce its Flagship Norton as well as a number of other wines.
Read MoreFor those not familiar with industry forebearers, those bearded 19th century viticulturists who blazed the trail, Munson was credited with helping develop rootstock plantings that combatted the European phylloxera problem in the 1800s. He’s also known for classifying native American grape varieties and finding unique vines. reading about them has never given much reason to celebrate.
Read MoreLike most modern wine fanatics, I spend my sipping time on wines made from grapes like pinot noir and syrah that were developed over the centuries in the Old World. I’ve long understood that there are also grapes of North American origin that can make wine, but my limited experience in trying them and slightly more experience in reading about them has never given much reason to celebrate.
Read MoreThis webinar will explore the past, present and future of North American Native grapes with an eye on the wines produced from them. Three of the foremost experts on these grapes and wines will be on hand to share their observations and answer questions about the Native North American viticulture and winemaking, as well as the prospects for encouraging the development of a North American Native grape wine niche.
Read MoreHybrids have grabbed the attention of the wine world because of their potential to be adapted to a changing climate. But in Missouri, a museum designer is working to revive something that might be even more adaptative: indigenous American grape varieties that were described and classified more than a century ago, but have mostly been forgotten.
Read MoreWith TerraVox, Eisterhold is stretching the concept of inter-active museum exhibits into a new realm. It is a highly personal project, with no foundation or institution to help him plant and graft grapevines, harvest fruit, crush clusters, and market wines. Consider it a new spin on Missouri as the “Show-Me” state.
Read MoreMost of what you drink everyday – like Pinot Noir and Chardonnay for example — comes from European grape varieties, from the species Vitis Vinifera. But there is a group of Native wine grapes in America that are different in how they grow, how they cultivate and how they flourish.
Read MoreIn this episode of The Wonderful World of Wine, we interview Jerry Eisterhold, the owner of TerraVox Winery. We discuss Jerry's background, his winemaking philosophy, and his unique approach to making wine.
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Turns out, before prohibition Missouri and Kansas formed one of the most significant grape-growing and wine-making regions in the U.S. While prohibition destroyed most of that growth, the history of the region is helping many local wineries across Missouri and Kansas flourish today.
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It’s a little-known fact: Missouri was once one of the most exciting and thriving wine states in the U.S.—especially in the mid and late 19th century. But even a hundred years later—in 1980—Missouri had another wine-claim-to-fame: Augusta, Missouri, became the first AVA (American Viticultural Area) in the entire U.S. Today, Missouri is ground zero for all kinds of unique and fascinating wines made from native American grape varieties as well as hybrids that most of us have never heard of, or tasted.
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(Kansas City, MO)—Kansas City's TerraVox Winery was awarded a Best of Class Award at the prestigious 2023 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition. The competition, which saw more than 5,500 wines submitted, named the TerraVox 2021 Lot 3 Norton the Best of Class in the Red Natives and Hybrid category. Only 3% of all wines entered into the competition are given a Best of Class designation.
Read MoreShare some liquid love this Valentine’s Day with a delicious, but thoroughly unique bottle of wine – one that hails from an emerging wine region or a showcases a lesser-known varietal. Consider Albania, a white American heritage grape cultivated in Missouri.
Read MoreInterested in starting your own entrepreneurial journey in food and beverage but unsure what to expect? Then read up on our interview with Gerard Eisterhold, Owner of TerraVox Winery, located in Kansas City, MO, USA.
Read MoreHead north of Kansas City to Weston, Missouri, and you’ll find a hidden trove of wineries where you can buy wine made with grapes grown on local vines.
Read MoreWinemakers around the country are working to bring back indigenous and hybrid grape varieties that are better adapted to extreme weather and the new pests and diseases that come amid climate change.
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