Last Thursday evening (May 19) we held our last Tiedemann On Wines wine dinner before our summer break (well maybe…you never know) at McCarthy’s on the Riverwalk restaurant here in Elkhart. The wines featured at the event were wines from Dark Star Cellars located in Paso Robles, Calif., McCarthy’s Chef Matt Hiland prepared the food […]
Chain Reaction, Dark Star Cellars, Glenwood Cellars, McCarthy's On the Riverwalk, Prosecco, Ricordati, wine dinner
First and foremost on the agenda of any of my Napa trips is to take care of anything that has to do with our wine business…such as meeting with our vendors, winemakers, etc. At the top of this trip’s agenda was blending new wines. I was really excited about this trip as we were blending […]
Adler's Blend, Chardonnay, Glenwood Cellars, Kent Humphrey, Napa, Pinot Noir, Sauvignon Blanc
As I prepare for my next winemaking trip to Napa Valley in several weeks, I thought I would share some thoughts on the process, winemakers and my wines. I started planning this wine venture in 2009 and officially formed Tiedemann Wines in 2010. It took from March until mid-November of 2010 to secure all the […]
Eric Kent Wine Cellars, Glenwood Cellars, Kent Humphrey, Sauvignon Blanc, winemakers, winemaking
I was very pleased a number of months ago when I received an email from our friend Juan de la Barreda of Torre de Barreda wines in Spain, about visiting us in Elkhart again. Juan visited us for the first time in August 2014 on one of his sales trips to the United States. Some […]
Amigos, Barreda Winery, Chef Javier Mendez, Chef John Bulger, Chef Tony Nafrady, Corral de Almaguer, Glenwood Cellars, Javier's Bistro, Juan Barreda, Panofino, Spanish wine, Tapastrie, Temper Grille, Tempranillo
For the last couple years I have struggled to find a new wine distributor in the Chicago area who would handle our wines. In today’s wine world if you aren’t producing upwards of 10,000 cases of wine per year (I make less than 1,000 cases) the major distributors aren’t interested in your wines. The distributors […]
Chicago, Glenwood Cellars, Manfred Bauer, Morton's Steakhouse, Original Morton's, wine tasting