Warehouse Winery News
Rochester, NY - Winner - 2012 Finger Lakes International Wine Competition
Warehouse Winery #5 - Bronze
Truly an International competition with some 3,298 wines from 19 countries, 6 Canadian Provinces, and all 50 US states entered.
Warehouse Winery releases Poetic Blend, Meredith Red
Warehouse Winery celebrates the release of its award winning red blend "Poetic Blend, Meredith Red" - a charitable production in conjunction with the William Meredith Foundation.
Poetic Blend Press Release
Foundation Mission Statement
Purchase Poetic Blend
All net profits from wine sales support the charitable and artistic projects of the William Meredith Foundation and Center for the Arts.
To thank you for supporting the foundation, a free leather-bound copy of William Meredith poetry will be included with the purchase of a case of Poetic Blend. THE WRECK OF THE THRESHER is a wonderful collection of his best work with archival photos from the Mystic Seaport which produced the work.
2012 Best Minnesota Red & Best Minnesota White
Warehouse Winery awarded 2012 Minnesota Monthly Food & Wine Experience - Best Minnesota Red - Warehouse Winery No9 2009, Best Minnesota White - Warehouse Winery No6 2009
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Swing batter, swing
Minneapolis, MN — Warehouse Winery wines are now served at the new ball park... Look for it at the next game!
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2nd Annual STOMP blows in with New Oreleans style
Please join us for this unique gala benefit to salute Relate Counseling Center... without leaving town!
WHAT: A Benefit for Relate Counseling Center
WHEN: Saturday September 24th - 6-10pm
WHERE: Warehouse Winery - St. Louis Park
Warehouse Winery participates in United Way Emerging Leaders SPARK event
Greater Twin Cities United Way — "Thank you so much for participating in our SPARK event last week. I hope that you found it as rewarding and successful as we did. Warehouse Winery was a great addition. Not to mention that I heard your red wines were the top of the evening — no wonder you’ve won so many awards and features throughout the Twin Cities!"
Star Tribune: A Wayzata winemaker's
home returns to its agricultural roots.
After turning his front yard into a vineyard, Billy Smith, owner of Warehouse Winery, built a contemporary interpretation of a Midwestern farmhouse on land in Wayzata that once was the site of the old Foxglove Farm.
Venue News: Warehouse Winery to host Stomp! For Mental Health event
GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. -- Mental illness affects one in four Americans. In Minnesota, Relate Counseling Center treats nearly 3,000 patients every year.
The non-profit center also is striving to keep the state of mental health on the forefront with its' Stomp! For Mental Health event in St. Louis Park.
Lisa Conway, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker joined KARE 11 News Sunrise with more on the event.
"STOMP! FOR MENTAL HEALTH"
Saturday, September 25
Warehouse Winery, St. Louis Park
6pm, tickets $50
Warehouse Winery’s St. Croix wins
Bronze at the 2010 Mid-American
Wine Competition
Warehouse Winery also brings home a Silver Award for Best Label
Twin Cities Wine Sommelier + Chef
Review Minnesota Wine
Minneapolis’s favorite wine gal, Leslee Miller of Amuseewine.com & her favorite Twin Cities Chef, Mike Shannon of Cooks of Crocus Hill, team up to review Minnesota Wine - Warehouse Winery.
Channel 12
News Story
In the Garden: Growing vines that
lead to wines
If anyone knows how much a chore yard work can be, it’s Billy Smith…
AM1280 The Patriot
Radio Interview
1st Annual Organic Food & Music Summerfest
Minneapolis - St. Paul StarTribune
Grape expectations
A winemaker in a stately old neighborhood in Wayzata transformed his suburban yard into a miniature Napa of the North.
METRO Magazine
Wayzata’s Winemaker
It’s mid-afternoon, and the summer sun is a bear. Standing in the immaculate rows of his 400-vine vineyard that he planted in the backyard of his Wayzata home in spring 2008, Billy Smith is ambivalent to the heat. He’s excited and has lots to talk about, so a little sweat and squinting are of no concern.
Lakeshore Weekly News
A passon for wine and vines
Remnants of the old farming days can be found scattered around the west metro where landowners have resisted the urge to sell or subdivide.
8/31/2009 — Warehouse Winery awarded International Cold Climate Wine Competition 2009 Silver Medal: 2007 Frontenac-Petite Sirah-Syrah
International Cold Climate Wine Competition - 2009 Minnesota State Fair
Winemakers using grapes grown in cold climates will have the opportunity to enter a new professionally judged international wine competition as part of the 2009 Minnesota State Fair.
The first-of-its-kind competition is a partnership between the Minnesota Grape Growers Association, the State Fair and the University of Minnesota, where several of the cold-hardy wine grapes were developed.
