Illinois wine

She'll visit with our friends at the Illinois Grape Growers and Vintners Association.

Basically, that's Illinois wine.

And then we finish the show today, I wanted to get some bonus content from Jennifer Russell with the Illinois Lyme Association, talking Asian long-horned tick and also alpha-gal syndrome.

So that's coming up at the very end of the program, some important information there.

Yeah, and you know, as you talk about that, what about those growers and slash members? How many members do you have in your alliance?

Well, I like to talk about, uh, the number of, uh, winery tasting rooms that we have in the state of Illinois, and again, keeping in mind when we started, there were seven wineries, uh, mostly in the Southern Illinois region, and they tho- they had the forethought to think about an industry many decades in the future.

We've experienced a significant am- amount of growth since those early pioneers decided to make something of the wine and grape industry, and we printed an Illinois wine guide.

The, our most recent printing was in 2024, and we listed, I believe, 132 different tasting rooms throughout the state, all the way from, uh, the very northern part, uh, near Wisconsin.